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[quote=Anonymous]In my opinion, every kids' sports team needs at least one coach who truly knows the game and how to coach. I think at the younger ages, it's fine to have helper coaches who are there to supervise, organize, support the coach, etc. but someone out there has to know what s/he is doing.  If you have no experience with the sport your kid is coaching, I'd suggest you volunteer to be a team manager which is more of an administrative role.  Even in rec/house sports, many parents have some expectation that their kid will actually learn something about the sport he or she is playing and improve at it over the course of the season. I appreciate volunteers but don't want to pay money and invest time for my kid to play for a coach who knows little or nothing about the sport. And reading a how-to book or watching a YouTube video doesn't count as "knowing the sport."

I'm sure it's a resource issue, but sure would be great if rec/house leagues that depend on parent coaches invested more time in providing coaching support - training, practice plans, educational resources, etc.  There was another DCUM thread about travel soccer programs having 5 or 6 teams - I'm guessing this is driven in part by parents being dissatisfied with the level of coaching (and the resulting quality of play over time) in the house leagues.  [/quote]

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