VPA: Foundations for Coaching

Good course, in my experience as a player a lot of coaches could use this course and deeply think about how they impact each individual!

Very useful and practical information!

This was and continues to be a great guiding light for prospective and existing coaches, it motivates coaches to step their approach up to a level that isn’t just about winning. Fantastic amount of information and a solid foundation for coaches at any level to utilize to build better programs and build better humans!!

I learned a lot. Short, thoughtful lessons, good speakers, excellent content.

This course was very informative! I'm really glad it was mandatory to take before the season begins.

Very thorough.

Loved it!

Thorough, thoughtful and takes into consideration the entirety of the athlete. This is a necessary training for any coach who wants to get the most out of their team and support players in their development not only as athletes, but as people.

Too long if going to keep it like this. Need more outside engagement. Like put a scenario and instead of seeing how it played out give us options to how you would handle it. Then after show how it was done the way you are looking for. Things that keep people engaged.

Simple course with a powerful takeaway for any coach. As a beginner coach with little experience, it's already motivated me to think about what values I want my team to share and how I'm gonna shape the team to become good athletes and better human beings.

make it shorter

Great material, excellent topics, a bit long.

The length was appropriate, information was important and recent

good meaningful content.

Very informational and educational! Thank you

I think most high school coaches should go through this so they can understand how to relate with their players and understand that not every player will react to your message the same way so you got to be able to have a personal relationship with every player so you can get your message through. All this material was good and was all taught in someway in the coaching classes I took in college.

A lot of great insight for the modern day environment sports are in

I think the concepts I’ve learned can be applied to my current and future coaching positions

The course was solid and as a new first year coach it has given great insight into how to effectively coach.

All first time coaches should use this as a basis for their coaching philosophies.
It is also a great reminder for experienced coaches to get back to their roots. It's easy to think you have to coach to certain needs or situations, but by keeping these concepts at the forefront of your coaching style should make for smoother transitions from year to year.