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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:
 

  • Initiation Coach Clinic - a Provincial/local 4-5 hour, on-field clinic that you attend after completing the On-line Library. The clinic covers practice sessions, the fundamentals of the game and ethical decision making.
  • Rally Cap Coach Clinic - The Rally Cap Program is an initiative to enhance players' and coaches' first experience with the game. The program helps teams teach players the five FUNdamentals of baseball in a fun and safe environment. Players have the opportunity to perform different tasks in order to earn a colored Baseball Canada Rally Cap. Cap colours correspond with various levels of achievement. The program is designed for young baseball players.
  • Fundamentals, Ongoing Participation and 11U context are typically for either youth participating in a recreational environment or masters participants participating for recreation, fitness, and socialization reasons. The participants are in the Active for Life stage of long-term athlete development. The role of the coach is to encourage participants to continue their involvement in the sport.

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

Baseball Canada On-line Library module - a complete resource to help get you started and a place to revisit often while you coach children's baseball and

On completion of this 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

Provincial/Local Initiation Coach clinic

On completion of this clinic, 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