{"id":20291,"date":"2023-06-29T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/?p=20291"},"modified":"2023-06-29T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:07:38","slug":"coaches-here-are-educational-opportunities-to-take-your-coaching-journey-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/coaches-here-are-educational-opportunities-to-take-your-coaching-journey-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaches: Here are educational opportunities to take your coaching journey further"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20291\" class=\"elementor elementor-20291\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-018caff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"018caff\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e9da735\" data-id=\"e9da735\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-910cba5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"910cba5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Coaches: Here are educational opportunities to take your coaching journey further<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a76203 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a76203\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 29, 2023) \u2013<\/strong> US Club Soccer and its member organizations are hosting a number of coach education courses in the upcoming months. These courses fit into the U.S. Soccer Licensing Pathway or are considered supplemental courses by the Federation, with curriculum designed to develop leadership, tactical abilities, team periodization and game management.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of these opportunities is a <a href=\"https:\/\/learning.ussoccer.com\/coach\/courses\/available\/30\/details\/13250\">virtual Director of Coaching (DOC) course<\/a>, Aug. 9-Nov. 17, which focuses on developing club leaders \u2013 such as DOC, age group DOC, girls DOC, boys DOC, etc. \u2013 working in youth clubs with players ages U-6 through U-19. Student DOCs participate in 15 weeks of U.S. Soccer curriculum and will complete modules related to leadership, club philosophy, club performance environment, club player development plan and club coaching staff. The first pre-course virtual meeting is Aug. 2. To view more information, including eligibility requirements and to register, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/learning.ussoccer.com\/coach\/courses\/available\/30\/details\/13250\">this web page<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fe5798 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"6fe5798\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What makes an effective DOC? \ud83e\udd14<br><br>An upcoming *virtual* DOC course focuses on developing club leaders \u2013 such as DOC, age group DOC, girls DOC, boys DOC, etc \u2013 working in youth clubs with players ages U6-U19. Student DOCs participate in 15 weeks of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ussoccer_coach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ussoccer_coach<\/a> curriculum. (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hTINaQjAoA\">pic.twitter.com\/hTINaQjAoA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; US Club Soccer (@USClubSoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USClubSoccer\/status\/1674418508372013057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7953dd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7953dd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will be the third US Club Soccer-hosted DOC course in the past year. \u201cThe DOC license course was educational, informative and thought-provoking,\u201d said Chris Panayiotou, Virginia Rush DOC and participant of last year\u2019s DOC in-person course in Virginia.\u00a0\u201cThe coach educators made it fun, engaging and challenging. It was a great course that made us all better directors of coaching and people.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the DOC course is considered a supplemental course by U.S. Soccer for coaches taking their development to the next level, there are numerous upcoming courses in the License Pathway, including \u2018C,\u2019 \u2018D\u2019 and Grassroots that are hosted by certified educators with US Club Soccer and its member organizations. Interested coaches can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/ussoccer-coach-education\/\">U.S. Soccer Coach Education web page<\/a> on usclubsoccer.org for more information and to find direct links to U.S. Soccer\u2019s Learning Center, where registration is managed. <strong>In another step forward to making coach education more accessible, US Club Soccer and its member organizations will be able to host \u2018B\u2019 license courses in 2024<\/strong>; more details are coming soon.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, US Club Soccer will also soon facilitate U.S. Soccer\u2019s Continuing Professional Development program, of which Continuing Education Units (CEU) are necessary to maintain coach licensing. U.S. Soccer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/aws-s2-images.ussoccer.com\/coaches\/CPD-FAQs-Coaches.pdf\">released preliminary information<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earlier this year, and US Club Soccer remains in discussions about how best to scale the program at local levels.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches: Here are educational opportunities to take your coaching journey further CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 29, 2023) \u2013 US Club Soccer and its member organizations are hosting a number of coach education courses in the upcoming months. These courses fit into<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/coaches-here-are-educational-opportunities-to-take-your-coaching-journey-further\/\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98,31,32,19],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-education","category-home","category-news","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20291"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=20291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}