Coach of the Year

Positive Coaching Alliance’s 2025 Coach of the Year Awards Nominations are now open!
The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2024!
Read all the details below and begin your nomination!

Marques Lowe
2024 PCA Coach of the Year
Vipers Track Club

Is your coach PCA’s next Coach of the Year?

Coaches have a unique ability to positively impact kids through sports and we want to honor youth sports coaches who are making that impact in communities across the US!

What is the PCA Coach of the Year?

The coach teaches life skills through sports.
They encourage athletes to focus on their effort and not be afraid of making mistakes, because that is how you improve.
They support athletes by focusing on positive reinforcement instead of motivating through fear, intimidation, or shame.
They promote behaving respectfully, as the best version of oneself, towards the rules of competition, officials, opponents, and teammates.
They create an environment of belonging with focus on equity and inclusion.
They work to advocate for access for all kids to play by helping remove barriers such as cost and equipment.
They display empathy and compassion in their approach to coaching.

Simply put, we call a coach with these qualities a Double-Goal Coach® - coaching to win while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life skills through sports.

As the nominator, you will do the following:

Be the main point of contact for communications about the coach/nomination
Complete the nomination form which includes:
- Your personal contact information
- Details about your coach
- Reply to 5 essay questions
- Upload a minimum of 3 references and up to 10 references from people familiar with the coach. (At a minimum, one reference must be from a fellow coach, one must be from a current player, and one must be from the parent of a current player.)

For any questions about the awards program, please contact PCA’s Program and Events Manager, Jennie Wulbrun, jennie_wulbrun@positivecoach.org.

On January 6th, 2025, 25 Finalists will be selected. On January 13th, 2025, 10 National Winners will be selected from the group of 25. The 10 National Winners will each receive $500 and be mentioned on PCA’s online social media platforms.

The Coach of the Year will be selected at a date TBD and he/she will receive $5,000 for their sports program. The COY will win an all-expenses paid trip to be featured at PCA’s Game Changer Awards and Benefit in the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2025.

To be eligible for nomination, a coach must:

Have at least 3 years of coaching experience
Coach in the US.
NOT be a previous National Double-Goal Coach or Coach of the Year winner.
NOT nominate him/herself.

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