The annual NJYS Coaches Workshop and Vendor Expo will convene on January 7, 2012, at the spacious NJ Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ. This has been the site of several highly successful expositions attracting over 2500 people every year and hundreds of vendors!

This year’s topics and presentations reflect our ongoing mission of helping you develop and implement practical player-centered learning environments.  By this we mean the player should be the center of all your actions and decisions, regardless of the ability of your player.  The quality of the leadership, supervision and programming in youth soccer is much more important than the quantity.  The most important of all our responsibilities as coaches, administrators, referees and parents is to provide every child who participates in youth soccer a safe and enjoyable experience and the opportunity to reach their full soccer potential; how best to do that is where education comes into play—for the player as well as their support system.  As always we will feature the top youth, college and professional soccer minds from around the local area and country sharing the latest ideas, methods and concepts in the game and administration. 
 

Inspiring Young Female Soccer players
Presenter: Bill Shute

Bill will take you through an informative and creative presentation that recaps an entire season with a youth soccer team. Using various forms of multi-media, he will help you brainstorm as well as share ideas of how to inspire and motivate your youth soccer team, while creating a fun and dynamic atmosphere for youth players.

Offside - A Better Understanding
Presenter: Kevin Dearman, NJ State Youth Referee Administrator, Barry Towbin, NJYS Director of Referee Development and Education

A variety of actual game footage clips and discussion will explore this topic and provide clarity to this very controversial most argued area in the Laws of the Game.

Modern Day Issues in Injury Prevention
Presenter: Dr. Steven Rice, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACSM, and Director of the Jersey Shore Sports Medicine Center; President of the American Academy of Pediatrics/New Jersey Chapter (AAP/NJ)

The topic of Peak Performance, that is getting the most from young athletes; how to keep them properly hydrated while avoiding heat illness and excessive fatigue will be discussed. Dr. Rice will outline the 2 Position Papers issued this past summer by The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics)— one on climatic heat stress for active children and adolescents and the other on sports drinks & energy drinks. Both documents relate to the issues of intensity of participation producing overworked children, schedules of tournaments days, how to avoid heat illnesses, and what are considered appropriate fluid replacement beverages. “Peak performance - Getting the most from our young athletes: keeping them properly hydrated while avoiding heat illness and excessive fatigue”. No coach or parent wants to miss this one!

Using GotSoccer
Presenter: Bill Cameron

The Club DOC: Player Development over Winning
Presenter: : Louis Mignone, Director of Coaching West Orange United FC; Girls Head Varsity Soccer Coach at West Orange High School

This presentation will examine the difficult journey a club DOC faces while establishing a culture of youth player development, replacing the traditional focus upon winning matches as the ultimate measurement of the program’s accomplishment and worth; this process is not only a gradual one, but it is vulnerable to several impediments along the way. Conflicts will be discussed pertaining to bringing the club’s existing coaches, many of whom are “set in their ways”, into compliance with the club’s new coaching methodology, small-sided game teaching models, and age-appropriate learning objectives clearly described within the curriculum. Formal and informal parent meetings will be evaluated through which a DOC may paint a more lucid picture of how these youth players will gain irreplaceable technical enrichment and confidence within this system that encourages enjoyment, exploration, risk-taking, and decision-making without fear of any consequences. Highlighted as the principal theme, will be the continual provision of coaching education at varied levels of complexity to an assortment of audiences within a wide range of settings and through various means of delivery

Starting a TOPSoccer® Program
Presenter: Auke Wiersma, US Youth Soccer Region I TOPSoccer Program Chair and NJYS Program Director for TOPSoccer

TOPSoccer stands for The Outreach Program for Soccer. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, ages 4-19, which have a mental or physical disability. Part 2 of this program will discuss the resources that are available through US Youth Soccer and NJYS to organize and implement a program in your area.  Everyone who is interested in organizing programs for these special athletes does not want to miss this one!

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