NORTH HARRISON YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE EMPLOYS
USA FOOTBALL COACHING EDUCATION PROGRAM & MEMBER BENEFITS

Helping foster great football experiences for its youngsters, the North Harrison (Ind.) Youth Football League has enrolled all of its 15 coaches into USA Football’s Coaching Education Program (CCEP) as well as secured USA Football’s coaching membership resources. The league serves the North Harrison County area and encompasses more than 125 youngsters. USA Football, the sport's national governing body on youth and amateur levels, has trained nearly 20,000 youth football coaches nationwide in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., since 2007.

All North Harrison Youth Football League coaches will complete the first level of USA Football’s CCEP at usafootball.com. To advance through the online course at usafootball.com, which takes roughly two hours each to complete, a coach must receive a cumulative score of at least 80 percent on the 11 course quizzes.

USA Football’s CCEP encompasses coaching philosophy, practice planning, communicating with young players and parents though computer animation and audio narration. Upon course completion, coaches receive a USA Football coaching certificate and have their name added to usafootball.com’s national coaches’ registry.

In addition, each of the league’s head coaches have become USA Football coaching members, providing them innovative resources including coaching insurance, a 3-D online computer-animated drills library with more than 100 drills, an online practice planner, USA Football’s “Click ’n Create” online playbook, and more.

“The formal training that my coaches received at the Colts Coaching School was very beneficial,” said JOE KUERZI, the league’s director. “Instead of just having ‘Daddy’ coach, we’re getting formal training for the kids.  Also, the online resources such as the film room and the drills library are great tools for the coaches.  The coaches can go online to review the drills and then the coaches can properly instruct our players during practice”

“The best way to shape America’s favorite sport at the youth level is to provide coaches with resources to become quality instructors and mentors,” said USA Football Executive Director SCOTT HALLENBECK. “Under Joe’s leadership, the North Harrison Youth Football League is doing that in an exciting way through our online coaching education course and coaching membership benefits. Prepared and dedicated coaches result in youngsters having more fun playing a game they love – that is precisely what is happening for youth football in these communities.”

About USA Football
USA Football, the sport's national governing body on youth and amateur levels, conducts more than 100 football training events annually to further strengthen the game. USA Football members – coaches, game officials and league commissioners – reside in all 50 states. The independent non-profit based near Washington, D.C. is the official youth football development partner of the NFL and NFLPA and manages U.S. national teams within the sport for international competitions. USA Football is chaired by former NFL team executive Carl Peterson.