About Us

Eastern Ranges coaching at youth level is an extremely rewarding experience, but it comes with the challenge of dealing with young athletes who are coming to terms with changes in their life.
It can be a difficult and demanding period for the players as they juggle a number of areas.
These crucial player development
years require delicate management skills to look at improving the ‘all-round athlete’.

At Eastern Ranges we believe that when developing young players, we need to look at ‘effective coaching’ rather than
basing our success on ‘results coaching’. This means that we need to have a mentality of coaching young players for
the future rather than just coaching for the present.
A successful youth coach needs to have the following characteristics:
1: Organised
2:  Prepared
3:  Positive, enthusiastic and encouraging
4:  Empathy for the player (remember how tough the game really is)

PARENTS CODE OF CONDUCT

1: Remember that children play sport
for their enjoyment, not yours.

2: Encourage children to participate –
do not force participation upon them.

3: Focus on the child’s efforts and self-esteem rather than whether they win or lose.

4: Encourage children to always participate according to the rules.

5: Never ridicule or yell at a child for making a mistake or for the team losing a game.

6: Remember that children learn best by example – applaud the efforts of all players in both teams.

7: Support all efforts to remove verbal and physical abuse from sporting activities.

8: Show appreciation of volunteer coaches, officials and administrators, without whom your child could not participate.

9: Respect umpires’ decisions and teach children to do likewise.

10: Remember that smoking and the consumption of alcohol is unacceptable at junior sport.