A student at Elon University and local youth soccer coach is doing some research into youth soccer coaching and could use your help collecting information about how various coaches coach… My name is James Bryant and I am a senior at Elon University,...

I always get these coach gift idea posts out late, but such is life. Along the line of a gift my girls team gave me last year, Shutterfly can put together bound picture books, often for less than $30. I just wish they could do the 5×7 in hard cover....

One of the coolest aspects of the USSF National Youth License course is that it goes into a lot of detail about how kids learn, how their bodies develop, how they interpret and understand things, and thus what their practice sessions should be like....

A while back my daughter had a coach that flat out forbade them from bringing Gatorade to practice. Water was the only thing allowed. Her belief was that it hydrated them better. This didn’t make the parents all that happy, especially when US Youth...

Earlier this year, the US Youth Soccer Association published their Vision for Youth Soccer in America. It generated a smattering of debate, but not much. It certainly should, because this vision sums up much of what the USYSA is thinking and advocating...