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2021 Convention Moving to Interactive Digital Experience in Wake of COVID-19
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 30, 2020) – Due to the ever-changing conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and for the safety of members, partners, presenters, exhibitors and colleagues, United Soccer Coaches announced today that the coaching association’s annual...
Disabilities Allies Advocacy Group Newsletter – July 2020
The Disabilities Allies Coaches Advocacy Group distributes a quarterly newsletter to keep its members up to date on news, deadlines and other association happenings. The newsletter also serves to let members know what the group is working on, highlighting group...
United Soccer Coaches Announces High School Scholar All-America Teams
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 23, 2020) -- United Soccer Coaches announced on the Thursday the association's High School Scholar All-America Teams for boys and girls soccer during the 2019-20 academic year. A total of 121 players receive High School Scholar All-America...
President’s Letter: Excellence is a Full-Time Job
Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, historian and philosopher Will Durant delivered this widely accepted interpretation of Aristotle: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have...
Women’s Coaches Advocacy Group Newsletter – July 2020
The Women’s Coaches Advocacy Group distributes a quarterly newsletter to keep its members up to date on news, deadlines and other association happenings. The newsletter also serves to let members know what the group is working on, highlighting group members and...
United Soccer Coaches Announces 2019-20 Winter/Spring High School All-America Teams
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 9, 2020) -- United Soccer Coaches announced on Thursday the association's High School Boys and Girls All-America Teams for the winter and spring seasons during the 2019-20 school year. A total of 45 players received All-America recognition with...
United Soccer Coaches Announces Partnership with Tipevo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 7, 2020) – United Soccer Coaches announced today a new strategic partnership with data-solutions company Tipevo. The partnership will allow United Soccer Coaches to utilize Tipevo’s advanced data technology to better serve the association’s...
This Sucks, Doesn’t It?
By Shawn Danhouser & Kate Ward The current healthcare crisis has changed all of our worlds. No one is immune to its effects and unfortunately some of us have lost people we love to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. For those of us involved in our beautiful game of...
I am a Coach. I am Transgender.
The importance of LGBTQ+ visibility in sports This May marked a milestone anniversary for me. On May 1, 2017 I did something that I had never done in my twenty five years of coaching. I told the soccer players at Portland Community Football Club (PCFC) that I am...
A Prescription for Increased Clarity
By Lyndse Hokanson Colgate University Head Women's Soccer Coach I want to start by saying that I by no means - or by many means even - have it all figured out. I would simply like to offer my reflection on what the past few months have looked like and meant to a new...
