COACHING CLINIC OVERVIEW
The British Columbia Soccer Association's Coach Education Program exists to support and foster the development and education of coaches from the grassroots to elite levels of play throughout British Columbia. The series of clinics within the program will not focus on teaching coaches how to play the game, so much as preparing coaches to impart their knowledge more efficiently and effectively to the players that they work with on a daily basis.
The goal of the British Columbia Soccer Association is to provide coaches across British Columbia with the tools necessary to help build the future of soccer in British Columbia and to help coaches become the leading force for positive change in the lives of the athletes they work with.
Regardless of the personal aim and goals of a coach, the primary goal of coaching is to facilitate a learning environment that is fun, challenging, educational, and that develops a love for the game that enables the sport to retain as many players as possible. Unlike other areas of coaching, which may be predominantly physical or entirely mental, the coach also has the potential to profoundly affect an athlete's cognitive awareness, psychomotor abilities, emotional awareness, health and wellness, as well as social and teamwork skills.
If coaches strive to be successful in providing the best experience possible to the athlete, they will need more than excellent technical ability, or experience and a desire to teach; although these are both indispensable. Being a successful soccer coach is as much about a personal desire towards continuing their own education as it is about what they have to offer the players they work with.
Just because a coach has excellent technical skill or a wealth of playing experience, does not necessarily mean that they can convey their knowledge to a willing athlete in an effective manner. Consequently, if a coach wishes to become truly successful at what they do, it is important that they acquire the skills required of a successful teacher and leader.
The first step to becoming a qualified soccer coach in British Columbia is to enroll in a Coaching Clinic. The British Columbia Soccer Association holds a variety of coaching clinics on a regular basis throughout the province.
BCSA coaching courses are available to any coach that is registered with a member Club, District, or Association currently in good standing with the British Columbia Soccer Association.
The Pitt Meadows Soccer Club supports BCSA's initiatives to improve our coaches and offers various clinics at no cost to registered club coaches and assistant coaches.
Please view the links below for course descriptions and availability.
If we do not currently have a clinic available please visit a calendar of coaching clinics to view clinics being offered in other communities and find out more information about the coaching developement model.