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Getting To The ROOTS Of It! 
 
"PCA believes the time has come to unite behind a powerful new term, "Honoring the Game." Coaches, parents, and athletes need to realize that an Honoring the Game perspective needs to replace the common win-at-all-cost perspective. If a coach and his or her team have to dishonor the game to win it, what is this victory really worth, and what sort of message is this sending young athletes?
 

If Honoring the Game is to become the youth sports standard, it needs a clear definition. At PCA we say that Honoring the Game goes to the "ROOTS" of positive play. Each letter in ROOTS stands for an important part of the game that we must respect. The R stands for Rules. The first O is for Opponents. The next O is for Officials. T is for Teammates, and the S is for Self."

 

- Positive Coaching Alliance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Coach:

 

All SLFC coaches are double goal coaches.  A double goal coach has more than one goal. 

 

The first goal is to win.  The second, more important goal is to teach life lessons through sports.

 

A double goal coach will never comprimise the second to achieve the first.  A double goal coach will not win-at-all-costs. 

 

 

Double goal coach job description:

http://www.positivecoach.org/uploadedFiles

/Free_Tips_and_Tools/Coaches_Tools/

DGC_JobDescription.pdf

 

Take the double goal coach course:

http://www.positivecoach.org/DGC.aspx

 

 

 

Player:

 

Players on SLFC teams are triple impact competitors.  They strive to improve in 3 aspects of the game.

 

1.  Personal Mastery:
     Making oneself better

2.  Leadership:
     Making one’s teammates better

3.  Honoring the Game:
     Making the game better

 

Become a Triple Impact Competitor

 

Join the Triple Impact Competitors on Facebook

 

Nominate your coach for PCA's Double Goal Coach Award

 

Resources for student athletes

                                                                         

Parent:

 

As a parent, our first goal is not to win.  We want them to compete and win, but more importantly we want to teach them.

 

So our main goal is the second goal (to teach life lessons through sports), and we leave the first goal (to win) to the coaches.  

 

Take the Second Goal Parent Course

 

Sign the Parent Pledge

 

Creating a good Coach-Parent partnership

                                                  

Get ideas about how to talk with your child about his or her sports experience (even after a tough Loss).