Elk River Youth Football Association

Coaches Corner

The coaches corner is a place to enhance your sports education. The goal of this area is to assist you in developing better players and better people for future success at whatever level you might be at. Our goal is for you to learn one new thing each time you visit this section. If you have any questions, suggested topics, or articles to contribute to this area please contact us.

Announcements:

Concussion Training - Required for all coaches

The Minnesota Legislature recently passed a "Concussion Law" which requires any municipality, business, school district or nonprofit organization that organizes a youth athletic activity and charges a fee to follow the statute's requirements, including implementing concussion training and education to improve player safety and establish safe return-to-play policies for athletes who sustain a concussion.

The law mandates that all coaches and officials receive concussion training and education by September 1, 2011, and then at three-year intervals thereafter. Coaches must remove an athlete from activity if they exhibit signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion and/or are suspected of sustaining a concussion. The law also requires a doctor's signature to return to play if an athlete is removed due to a concussion or is showing signs or symptoms of a concussion.

The concussion education we recommend for coaches and officials is the online video training session developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Federation of State High Schools www.nfhslearn.com. This course requires registration, but it is free. Over 200,000 coaches and officials have already successfully completed this course.

The training process involves watching a video and then successfully completing a quiz. The entire training module can be completed in a little over a half an hour and then participants can print out a Certificate of Completion. Users should use a screen capture to save the certificate on their desktop, or print and scan the certificate to create a digital file.

Coaches Application & Selection Timeline:

Check back for more specific details. Contact the league director below for specific questions.

ALL COACHES WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON THEIR QUALIFICATIONS AND PAST HISTORY!

The "Coaching Application" and "Code of Conduct" can be downloaded from this site. Then you can either:

1. Sign, scan, and email back to the director of the league for which you are applying to coach in.

2. Sign and mail to: PO Box 570, Elk River, MN 55330.

Questions on this process, please contact the league director.

2nd - 3rd Grade Director
Todd Erickson
763-238-3510
todderickson625@ymail.com

4th - 6th Grade Director Ken Hanson
763-263-0947
kgs6788@aol.com

7th and 8th Grade Director Scott Schwab
612-860-7343
SSchwab562@aol.com

Thank you for being a part of Elk River Youth Football!!

Game Schedules

Game Schedules will be available on the Area728 website, www.area728youthfootball.com , please post your schedule to your team website to make it convenient for parents. The schedules aren’t currently coming up on this site, however, you would be able to see the full season schedule if you go through the Rogers Youth Football link. We’re working with the website administrator to get this issue resolved and will let you know when that occurs.

Players Names on Jersey's

Specific details will be posted as the season begins!

Coaches Drills

Mega Clinics Web Page has great youth football players drills

http://www.megaclinic.com/megasite/drills/index.php?cat=Offense&db_name=drills

To Report Scores

To Report the Scores for 2nd -6th Grade Leagues - Click here - p.swiderski@comcast.net

To Report Scores for 7th - 8th Grade Leagues - Click here - Fbscores@aol.com

Volunteer Hours for parents holding chains for games.

Coaches:

Please send me one email every week, after your games, to let me know the names of the parents that need to be marked complete for their volunteer time. Please let me know first and last name and the number of hours.

bsenderhauf@hotmail.com

Thank you very much!

Berta Senderhauf - Volunteer Coordinator