SOURCE: USA Football
(Indianapolis) High school coaches associations spanning 37 states and USA Football today announced the formation of the National High School Football Coaches Alliance. This newly created Alliance will foster frequent and meaningful collaboration between its members, advance best practices across high school football and to unite and serve the high school football coaching community.
The High School Football Coaches Alliance, led by state high school coach association directors, seeks to provide access to unique and progressive professional development and continuing education platforms, digital and physical coaching tools and communication vehicles extending beyond state and regional borders.
Coaches association leaders convened in January at the 2018 USA Football National Conference in Orlando, Florida. The group met with USA Football to discuss forming the Alliance, benefitting their members and football-playing student athletes nationwide.
“This is a significant ‘first’ for high school football,” said Oregon Athletic Coaches Association Executive Director ROB YOUNGER, who will serve as the inaugural president of the Alliance. Younger worked as an Oregon high school educator and football coach for more than 40 years. “The Alliance will bring coaches together in ways we’ve not seen before and will strengthen our community through USA Football’s exceptional and vast coaching resources.”
“Helping form and assist the Alliance is consistent with how we have served the high school coaching family for years,” said USA Football CEO SCOTT HALLENBECK. “This is a community formed by coaches for coaches. They are teachers and mentors – their work is self-giving and inspires student-athletes to be their best both on the field and off it. The formation of this Alliance presents a powerful opportunity for us all to share and learn from each other to keep football growing and moving forward.”
The Alliance’s physical and digital platforms will be powered by USA Football, the sport’s national governing body and the only member of the U.S. Olympic Committee dedicated solely to football. Supporters of the Alliance include the National High School Athletic Coaches Association and the National Organization of Coaches Association Directors.
Coaches associations comprising the National High School Football Coaches Alliance:
Alabama Football Coaches Association
Arkansas Football Coaches Association
California Coaches Association
Connecticut High School Coaches Association
Delaware Interscholastic Football Coaches Association
Florida Athletic Coaches Association
Georgia Athletic Coaches Association
Idaho State Coaches Association
Illinois Coaches Association
Illinois High School Football Coaches Association
Indiana Football Coaches Association
Iowa Football Coaches Association
Kansas Football Coaches Association
Kentucky Football Coaches Association
Kentucky High School Coaches Association
Louisiana Football Coaches Association
Louisiana High School Coaches Association
Maryland Football Coaches Association
Michigan High School Football Coaches Association
Minnesota Football Coaches Association
Mississippi Association of Coaches
Missouri Football Coaches Association
Montana Coaches Association
Nebraska Coaches Association
New Jersey Football Coaches Association
New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association
New Mexico High School Coaches Association
New York State High School Football Coaches Association
North Carolina Football Coaches Association
North Dakota High School Coaches Association
Ohio High School Football Coaches Association
Oklahoma Coaches Association
Oklahoma Football Coaches Association
Oregon Athletic Coaches Association
Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association
South Carolina Football Coaches Association
Southern California Football Coaches Association
South Dakota Football Coaches Association
Tennessee Football Coaches Association
Utah Football Coaches Association
Vermont High School Football Coaches Association
Wisconsin Football Coaches Association
Wyoming Coaches Association
