Due to today’s safety concerns for our AYF youth, all AYF football and cheer coaches are strongly advised to complete the online course for the sport they coach. The course includes $2 million extra liability coverage—this is twice the amount offered by our competition!
All tournament team coaches should be aware that a course completion certificate will be one of the items on the registration checklist for the AYF National Championships.
AYF and Exclusive Coaching Education Partner, ASEP have designed customized courses specifically for AYF and AYC coaches and we strongly recommend that all coaches complete the coaching education program.The course price is $24.95, and includes one-year access to the online course and its electronic resources (downloadable PDFs of drills, practice plans, safety checklists, evaluations...) test scoring and reporting, a certificate of completion, and lifetime certification.
- Coaches can access the course or books
- Administrators can buy courses for their coaches and generate reports
- Anyone can view which coaches have completed the training program
- Coaches can print their completion certificate
Please be advised, this is the ONLY Coaches Training Course that is accepted for AYF and AYC National Championship Coaches.
Whether you’re a parent new to coaching or an experienced youth coach, Coaching Youth Football or Coaching Youth Cheerleading is your handbook for a successful season.
Through the expertise of former youth, high school, college and NFL coach and current AYF president Joe Galat, you’ll gain field-tested tips on running your team, communicating with and handling players, providing basic first aid, planning and conducting practices, drawing up plays, and keeping it all fun.
The only resource aimed exclusively at youth cheerleading coaches, Coaching Youth Cheerleading includes dozens of partner stunts, pyramids, jumps, and tumbling skills all supplemented by photos or illustrations depicting correct form and position.
XP the official trianing system of AYF is providing our coaches access to Coaches Corner. Coaches Corner will be a blog updated monthlly written by NFL Pro-Bowler Lavar Arrington. Lavar will be sharing all that he has learned about football and coaching from his years playing college and professional football.
Any AYC organization can bring a UCA coaches clinic to your hometown to train your coaches. A full service coaches clinic will come to you and each coach will receive UCA Advisor Manual, a Coaches Certificate and a Coaches Pin there is also an option to schedule an additional 4 hours of topics of choice training. The 5 Star Coaches Program is something to cheer about! Coaches are trained on keeping your program safe, public relations, special event planning and MUCH more.
Contact cheer@americanyouthfootball.com for more information or to schedule your clinic today.
AYFers get a true NFL experience at the Under Armour Youth Combine Clinic. Under Armour's top development experts, ex-collegiate and NFL coaches, will work with AYF athletes and introduce them to Combine drills like the 20-yard dash, and broad jump. Under Armour Combines address every element that is integral to an athlete's development, including agility, strength, mental toughness and nutrition.
All participants will receive an Under Armour Tech Tee.
Combine Clinics run from Mid February through July in up to 25 cities across the U.S.
Click here to check out the Under Armour Combines on YouTube. Click here to learn more about Combine and register.
Group Rates are available, contact akrieger@americanyouthfootball.com
School of the Legends is an officially licesened partner of the NFL and works with the greatest players to design Training Programs. Partnered with American Youth Football, SOTL will provide free samples of some top Training Videos. Keep checking back for new training tips.
To learn more email: services@americanyouthfootball.com
About School of the Legends:
School of the Legends (SOTL.com) is the creator of the Legends in Training series. Legends in Training is high-def online football training designed specifically for the student football athlete, coaches and parents consists of over 35 classes covering all 22 positions on the field taught by legendary NFL player-instructors including: Jerome Bettis, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Darren Sharper, Larry Fitzgerald, DeSean Jackson and DeAngelo Williams.
School of the Legends is also a unique social community that provides football fans, athletes, coaches and parents the opportunity to connect with thousands of current and former NFL players in a safe and secure online environment. In addition, SOTL.com offers a vast array of football-related content including NFL news, stats, unique team fan groups for all 32 NFL teams, plus player profiles and exclusive video content featuring NFL players.
Xtreme Procision
A patent-pending training system, geared to teach young children to professional-level athletes safe maneuvers on the field with body-mapped apparel. XP's revolutionary design incorporates white target zones, illustrating proper and safe hand and body placement. The XP system consists of six different training models, in both compression tees and practice jerseys. Tees and jerseys come in seven different team colors with corresponding offense and defense DVDs
Now available for purchase with low prices, exclusively for AYF members.
UCA is the worlds largest provider of cheer events, training and education and UCA isAYC's partner in everything cheer, dance and step!
All AYC organization can bring a UCA camp to their members, whether you have 20 girls or 1000 girls, UCA will come and run the best camp available to the highest safety standards and thanks to the low cost, these camps can also be used as fundraisers for your program.
Check out these downloads to learn all you need to know about AYC/AYC camps programs:
Combine Clinic. Under Armour's top development experts, ex-collegiate and NFL coaches, will work with AYF athletes and introduce them to Combine drills like the 20-yard dash, and broad jump. Under Armour Combines address every element that is integral to an athlete's development, including agility, strength, mental toughness and nutrition.
education and UCA isAYC's partner in everything cheer, dance and step!
