Youth Coach's Corner

Included with membership  |  Ages 10+ · 6-week course, Tuesdays 4:00–5:30 PM

Not every child is a born leader, and even those who are need help honing those skills. That's why we created our Youth Coach's Corner, a 6-week leadership course for kids aged 10 and up. During those six sessions, your little coach-in-training will learn communication skills — teaching methods for different ages and abilities, as well as how to resolve conflict, give feedback, and offer constructive criticism; team work — how to create a supportive learning environment in the gym; mentoring techniques — how to motivate and inspire younger students; and leadership skills — how to handle responsibility, manage others, and get results. Once they've completed the six sessions, our coaches-in-training must also complete 25 hours of volunteer coaching experience to earn their Junior Coach certificate. Junior Coaches will have more opportunities to coach class after the program ends in exchange for defraying their membership cost.