Community Coach Stream

The Baseball Canada Community Sport Coach program is designed to provide valuable and accessible resources and training to coaches who are introducing and continuing to work with children in community level baseball programs.

The program is comprised of three parts:

• Rally Cap Coach Clinic  is an initiative to enhance players’ and coaches’ first experience with the game. The program helps coaches teach players the five FUNdamentals of baseball (hitting, throwing, running, catching, ABCs) in a fun and safe environment. Players can perform different tasks to earn each of the 6 levels of achievement.

• 11U and Ongoing Participation is typically for either coaches working with youth participating in a recreational environment or Active for Life participants participating for recreation, fitness, and socialization reasons. The participants are in the Active Start, Fundamentals, Learning to Train, and Active for Life stages of Long-Term Development. The role of the coach is to encourage participants to continue their involvement in the sport. 

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• Fundamentals and Ongoing Participation - The Initiation Clinic is a 4-hour in-class clinic that you attend after completing the eLearning clinics. The clinic covers practice sessions, the fundamentals of the game and ethical decision making. The participants are in the Active Start, Fundamentals, Learning to Train, and Active for Life stages of Long-Term Development. The role of the coach is to encourage participants to continue their involvement in baseball.

Each part of the program provides credits towards your status as a Baseball Canada Community Sport level coach.

Baseball Canada Online Clinics - Coach Initiation in Sport, Rally Cap eLearning, FUNdamentals eLearning, My First Pitch eLearning

Baseball Canada's offerings of online self-delivered courses are a complete resource to help get you started and a place to revisit often while you coach children's baseball and on completion of the Coach Initiation in Sport module, you will get credit for:

• Select pre-designed practice plans that show flexibility for number of children, helpers, space and equipment.
  
  Your coaching status in the Baseball Canada Initiation Coach program will be In Training

Absolutes Clinic:

On completion of this provincially or local run clinic (administered by a course instructor and available online and in-person), you will get credit for:

• Run a practice session that is fun, safe and keeps children actively engaged.
• Explain the fundamentals of a game so children understand and can successfully play in a game.
• Make ethical decisions.
  
  Your coaching status in the Baseball Canada Initiation Coach program will be: Trained