Markham Soccer Club

Coaching Clinics
The Markham Soccer Club is committed to development of coaches and players. More than 150 of our coaches have become certified through the formal coaching courses offered over the last few years. The internal clinics offer additional opportuinities to share and develop coaching knowledge and skills.

Details coming soon on 2009 Clinics.

Technical Support
The Markham Soccer Club has a very fine group of Technical Directors whose job it is to provide advice to the Club in setting its Technical Direction and to provide coaching and mentoring for for the Club's coaches and players. Tom McGarrigle undertook a project in 2005 to determine what technical resourses the Club needs. Tom has been putting these resources in place and he has done a fine job of selecting very capable people for these roles. For more information on our technical support staff click on the Technical Directors menu item.

Coach Certification Requirements

OSA Policy 3.0 - Coach Certification Requirements

3.1: Each coach must be registered by its Club in the OSA's computerized registration system.
3.2: Each coach registered with a Club and assigned as the Team Head Coach to a competitive team in that Club is required to have completed the Senior Level of the Community Coaching Program, giving her/him full certification as a Community Coach. A person may only be designated as the Team Head Coach for a maximum of two outdoor teams.
3.3: Effective January 31, 2004: Each coach registered with her/his Club and assigned as an Assistant Coach to a competitive team in that Club shall complete the Senior Level of the Community Coaching Program by May 2004, giving her/him full certification as a Community Coach.

All competitive team coaches (head coach and assistant coaches) must have obtained their Senior Level Community Coaching Certificate in order to coach a competitive team during a game for the 2004 season.

The OSA website has a complete list of clinic dates and locations.

National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)

3M Canada Company is committed to providing quality coach education, through the 3M National Coaching Certification Program, and to the recognition of the outstanding contribution made by our amateur coaches, locally, provincially and nationally.

The NCCPis a 5-level education program for coaches at all levels in over 60 sports.

Click here for the complete NCCP theory schedule.

National Soccer Coaching Association of Canada (NSCAC)

The National Soccer Coaches Association of Canada (NSCAC) is for those who have a love for the game of soccer and seek to enhance the enjoyment of the game for themselves, the players they coach, and the soccer friends they come in contact with.

The mission statement for the NSCAC is "to provide our members education and informational services to assist the development and promotion of soccer in Canada."

Click here to visit the NSCAC web site.

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