youth football coaching - teaching safety and sportsmanship

Youth Football Coaching - Teaching Safety and SportsmanshipBy Adam Greene CPA

When it comes to youth football, coaches play an integral role in cultivating love for the game.

In addition to teaching the fundamentals of football, coaches should take care to teach the principles of safety and sportsmanship.

In terms of safety, coaches should always teach their players proper tackling technique and injury prevention strategies.

Player safety also involves using only age-appropriate drills for a given team.

With the recent buzz about player safety at higher levels of football, coaches do their players a great service by starting safety education early.

Sportsmanship

Coaches also have the opportunity to shape the development of young players and instill good sportsmanship.

Sportsmanship

Football is an intense game by nature, and that intensity need not be diminished to make way for sportsmanship.

Sportsmanship

Young players can give their all on every play and still shake hands with the opposing team at the end of the game. 

Sportsmanship

It is the responsibility of the coach to teach both aspects of the sport.