CoachUp! Washington is a strategic initiative between the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and the UW CLA aimed at providing training to all school-based coaches in Washington State. Within this partnership, the CLA builds curriculum, creates courses, and conducts research on course effectiveness and impact.
The first course in a series of five will be made available online to all school-based Washington coaches in fall 2023. Themes include using sport as a space for skill development, creating emotionally and physically safe environments, coaching for mastery, incorporating student voice, and modeling positive behavior.
CoachUp! is grant-funded by the Susan Crown Exchange (SCE) and is one of ten national projects taking part in the Million Coaches Challenge (MCC). The SCE and its MCC partners envision a world in which all young athlete have access to coaches who are well- versed in youth development and skill-building techniques that help kids succeed on and off the field. The first step: train one million coaches by 2025.