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Name: Michael Fong David Jacobson, Positive Coaching Alliance
Phone 510 / 334 - 3177 650-210-0808
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For Immediate Release
EL CERRITO YOUTH BASEBALL partners with positive coaching alliance
Focuses on winning and life lessons for youth athletes
El Cerrito Youth Baseball (ECYB) has a longstanding partnership with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) to ensure a positive, character-building experience for all youth athletes within its PONY League Baseball program.
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, ECYB will host an “Honor the Game Day” for all of its ball games, from the Shetland Division (5-6 year olds), through the Pony Division (13 – 14 year olds). Games will begin at 9:00 am at the Cerrito Vista Fields and run until 5:00pm . ECYB Games will also be held at Harding, Castro, Tasajara, Central, and Canyon Trail fields at later times. Please see our website for full game schedules, www.ecyb.org.
“Honoring the Game” not only means good sportsmanship and behavior. It means we intentionally show respect for the Rules of the Game, Opponents, Officials, Teammates, and one’s Self, also know as the ROOTS of positive play.
PCA (www.PositiveCoach.org), a Stanford University-based non-profit organization, conducts workshops for coaches, organizational leaders, and parents involved in schools and sports organizations like ECYB, serving five-to-18-year-old athletes. PCA also provides workshops for high school athletes.
“Working with hundreds of youth sports organizations around the United States, PCA has developed practical tools and guidelines to help youth athletes, their coaches and parents get the most out of sports,” Michael Fong, league PCA coordinator for ECYB. “We recognize the tremendous opportunity for character-building sports offers for today’s youth, so we are embracing PCA’s Double-Goal Coach® model, where winning is one goal and teaching life lessons is the second, more-important goal.”
“We are delighted to continue our partnership with ECYB,” said PCA Executive Director Jim Thompson. “Together, we’ll strive to help their youth athletes take a positive approach to pursuing victories in athletic competition and in life.”
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is committed to providing all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience. To that end, PCA has conducted more than 10,000 live group workshops nationwide for more than 475,000 youth and high school sports coaches, parents, student-athletes and school/organizational leaders. Through workshops and companion online courses, PCA has impacted more than 4 million youth.
PCA’s partnership network includes more than 1,700 youth sports organizations, cities and schools. In 2012, PCA will conduct roughly 1,200 live, group workshops across the U.S., while assisting tens of thousands of other individuals via online courses at www.PositiveCoach.org.
PCA workshops and courses strive to establish these prevailing models in youth and high school sports:
- The Double-Goal Coach®, whose first goal is winning, and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports
- The Second-Goal Parent®, who concentrates on life lessons, while letting coaches and athletes focus on competing
- The Triple-Impact Competitor®, who strives to impact sport on three levels by improving oneself, teammates and the game as a whole.
PCA has the support of elite coaches and athletes on a National Advisory Board, including National Spokesperson and 11-time NBA Champion Coach Phil Jackson.
For more about ECYB, The El Cerrito Youth Baseball Website: www.ecyb.org/