Product Description: Participation in youth soccer continues to grow, creating a greater demand for coaches than ever before. You might be a parent who has never played soccer, but you now find yourself on the sidelines wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into...read more

Product Description: Coaching Tennis Technical and Tactical Skills is a practical resource that will help you become a better high school, club, or college tennis coach. With the expert guidance of Kirk Anderson, director of recreational coaches and programs for the United States Tennis Association (USTA), you'll learn coaching and evaluating skills and then focus on technical and tactical skills of tennis, including quick tips on detecting and correcting errors in your athletes, cues athletes need to be aware of in various tactical situations, and key information your athletes need to know in order to make the appropriate decisions on the court...read more

Product Description: Coaching Youth Track & Field stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the sport, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills, drills, and activities of track and field...read more

Product Description: Unlike other softball instruction books, Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills goes beyond teaching the technical basics and focuses on skills such as in-game decision making and detecting the strengths and weaknesses of opponents—the tactical skills—to prepare players for game day...read more

Advises beginning coaches in youth tennis programs on coaching techniques, preparation, safety, the rules and skills of the game, drills, and teamwork

Product Description: Coaching Youth Wrestling, Third Edition, stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, helps your kids enjoy their wrestling experiences, and motivates your wrestlers to come out year after year...read more

Shows how to introduce the basic skills of volleyball, discusses rules and strategy, and suggests drills (view table of contents)

Discusses the responsibilities of a coach including communication, safety, rules, equipment, and teaching tactics and skills. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Whether your assignment is in the trenches, in the pocket, or on the sidelines, as a football official, positioning and mechanics are paramount to calling a clean, fair, and safe game. With Officiating Football, your assignment just got easier...read more

Product Description: As a soccer referee, you cover a lot of ground during a game. Knowing the rules will only get you so far. With Officiating Soccer, you'll further your understanding of officiating mechanics and ensure you're in the right place at the right time to make the right call...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Coaching Youth Lacrosse is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program's (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. A widely respected and highly popular series, this is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles...read more

Product Description: Games Approach to Coaching Softball is the newest addition to the American Sport Education Program's (ASEP) Games Approach to Coaching Sport video series. The Games Approach to Coaching Softball video presents an in-depth look at the games approach to coaching, which is discussed in the Coaching Youth Softball book...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Coaching Youth Hockey is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program's (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. This widely respected and highly popular series is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work equips youth coaches to prepare their players for competition. It instructs in the principles of coaching, communication, responsibilities, safety and methods of teaching. It helps coaches know how to teach tactics and skills and then refine those tactics and skills as players develop...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This manual seeks to help youth coaches prepare their softball players for matches. It instructs in the principles of coaching, which include communication, coaching responsibilities, safety, and methods of teaching. It also contains season plans to organize practices throughout the year...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is designed to guide the reader in the planning and managing of tournaments, competitions or fundraisers. Topics covered include: event objectives; finances; rules and officials; coach development; awards; food service; housing; promotion; and public relations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Coaching Youth Basketball, Fifth Edition, will help you run organized practices as you develop your players’ fundamental skills. Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), in conjunction with expert coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, this book covers all aspects of player development that you need to know: • Preparing for and conducting efficient, age-specific practices • Teaching and developing skills • Providing a safe playing environment • Identifying and correcting errors in performance • Communicating with and encouraging players You’ll also gain court-tested tips on running your team; communicating with players, officials, parents, and other coaches; providing basic first aid; and keeping it all fun...read more