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Davis AYSO, Region 218

Coaching

Thank you for your interest in volunteering! No prior soccer knowledge or experience is required to take any of our training courses.  Enthusiastic, positive individuals with no soccer experience often make great coaches!



All persons aged 18 and older are welcome to apply to be a coach, either a head coach or an assistant coach, and all youths aged 12 to 17 are welcome to apply to be a youth trainer, who helps adult coaches with a team of players at least two years younger.  To coach or be a youth trainer in Davis AYSO, you need to follow these steps below.



Coach certification is a one-time requirement, and it satisfies the coach training requirement for that age division and younger. View your volunteer profile to see what safety or background courses are needed it should look like the lift but specific to you; you need to be "compliant" in all steps listed.




Coach Requirements

1. Register as a volunteer. Please ensure each volunteer has their own account with a unique email address (youth volunteers or partners must have their own account or be added and accept an invite to the primary account). Sign in at www.davisayso.org, navigate to your volunteer tab, and click on "open volunteer positions". You may have already done this during registration; when navigating to your volunteer tab it will show you if you have volunteered.


2. Complete the Safe Haven, CDC Concussion Awareness and Sudden Cardiac Arrest courses online  
Login to your account, click the Volunteer menu on the left, and find the "AYSOU" button under your name on your Volunteer page.
On our training site, click "Training Library" on the left
Under "Safe Haven Courses" click "View Courses"
Complete the Safe Haven Online Course
Complete the CDC Concussion Awareness Online Course
Complete the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Online Course

3. Complete the SafeSport and Fingerprinting Requirements (only if 18+)
- To begin your SafeSport training, click HERE or copy & paste this link into your browser. https://safesporttrained.org/?KeyName=tsVWe36Xa6PS3b5NzOug
- If enrollment key does not take you to the safe sport course you can click on the three lines in the upper right, then select "Dashboard"
- Now Click "Course Catalog" and find the Safe Sport for US Soccer Federation
- Enroll in that course
- Follow instructions here for the Fingerprinting Requirements

4. Attend appropriate training course:  All courses consist of both classroom and field instruction; 10U and above courses also have an online component.

To coach 6U, 7U, or 8U you need to enroll in the in-person portion
To coach 10U you need to take "10U Coaching - Online + In-Person Field Session" and enroll in the in-person portion
To coach 12U you need to take "12U Coach Training Pre-Course (Part 1) - Online" and enroll in the in-person portion 
To coach 14U you need to take "Intermediate 14U Pre-Course (Part 1) - Online" and enroll in the in-person portion 
To coach 16/19U you need to take "Advanced Coach Pre-Course - Online" and enroll in the in-person portion

To get to online portions: 
Login to your account, click the Volunteer menu on the left, and find the "AYSOU" button under your name on your Volunteer page.
On our training site, click "Training Library" on the left, Go to "coaching" (click View Courses), Enroll/Take the course listed above in quotations

To enroll in in person portion (usually offered just prior to the start of our Fall and Spring seasons)
Login to your account click the Volunteer menu on the left, and find the "AYSOU" button under your name on your Volunteer page.
On our training site, click "Training Event" on the left and on the calendar find the training event you need based on what division you are coaching. Dates will not be available on the calendar until they are posted to the the "In Person" section to the right on desktop or below on mobile.

5. Attend the General Coach Meeting
To view upcoming dates for the General Coach Meeting see the "In Person" section to the right on desktop or below on mobile. A head coach is required to attend a general coach meeting at the beginning of the season. 

In Person Coach Training

Last updated 8/8/2023 4:30 pm

Please pre-register for the in-person coaching courses (see step 4 for how to) to ensure instructors have enough people to offer the course.

All coaches:
FALL COACH MEETING (August 19). Plan to meet your families after the coach meeting. See here for more information. 
10U coaches: 8:15 - 9:00 am
Schoolyard, 6U - 8U coaches: 9:30 - 10:15 am
12U/14U coaches: 10:30 - 11:00 am

Fingerprinting (This is a one-time requirement!):
August 16 6-8pm at the AYSO building. Pre-register, please: https://www.applicantservices.com/AYSO-BILLED

6U-8U Training (just need to take one session):
August 1 6pm-9pm Davis AYSO Building
August 6 9am-12pm Davis AYSO Building
August 16 6pm-9pm Davis AYSO Building
August 21 6pm-9pm Davis AYSO Building

10U Training: 
August 13 1-5pm Davis AYSO Building
August 26 105pm Davis AYSO Building

12U Training:
August 18 6pm-10pm Davis AYSO Building
August 27 12-4pm Davis AYSO Building

14U Training (Intermediate):
July 21 (evening), July 22, July 23 (morning) Menlo Park College  GGC
August 20 9am-3pm Location TBA

16U/19U Training (Advanced): 
July 21 (evening), July 22, July 23 (morning) Menlo Park College  GGC



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For questions specific to your division contact your Division Coach Administrator. Go here to find their email.

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P.O. Box 1602 
Davis, California 95617

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