Boys Training Requirements

Following the 2005 season the CONNY Training and Sportsmanship Committees analyzed the quality of play and number and nature of sportsmanship complaints over the two previous seasons. This analysis showed clearly the efficacy of coaches training and the CONNY Board voted at its December 7, 2005 meeting to require that, beginning with the 2006 season, every coach who appears on a CONNY sideline must have completed both CONNY Coaches Training—with special emphasis on behavior and sportsmanship—and CONNY Rules Training and must complete refresher or follow-on training in each discipline at intervals to be set by the Board, initially every two years.

2010 BOYS COACHING REQUIREMENTS
At its February 6, 2007 meeting, the Board voted to require that every coach pass the free, open-book, CONNY Online Rules Test every year, but dropped any requirement to attend an in-person CONNY Rules Workshop.

For CONNY Coaches Training, the Board still requires that every coach complete a CONNY recognized online or in-person coaches training course at least every two years.

If you are a NEW COACH in 2010, you must:

1. Pass the 2010 CONNYLacrosse On-Line Rules Test BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.
AND …

2. Pass the US Lacrosse Coaches Education Program Level 1 Coaches Course online or in-person BEFORE the start of the 2011 CONNY season.
OR
Pass the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Double-Goal Coach Course online or in person BEFORE the start of the 2011 CONNY season.

Even though new coaches are not required to take USLax CEP or PCA training before their first season, CONNY strongly urges that they do so.

If you are a VETERAN COACH in 2010 who completed your CONNY-recognized in-person or online Coaches Training in 2009, you must:

· Pass the 2010 CONNYLacrosse On-Line Rules Test BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.

If you are a VETERAN COACH in 2010 who completed your CONNY-recognized in-person or online Coaches Training before 2009, you must:

1. Pass the 2010 CONNYLacrosse On-Line Rules Test BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.
AND …

2. Pass the US Lacrosse Coaches Education Program Level 1 Coaches Course online or in-person BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.
OR
Pass the US Lacrosse Coaches Education Program Level 2 Coaches Course online or in-person BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.
OR
Pass the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Double-Goal Coach 1 Online Training Course BEFORE the start of the 2010 CONNY season.

2010 CONNYlacrosse ONLINE RULES TEST -- Required every year for every boys coach!
To take the test, click on the "Register Online" choice on the menu bar on the left of the CONNYLacrosse website's Main Page; or click here: http://www.connylacrosse.org/Registration/Default.asp?snid=508739915&org=CONNYLACROSSE.ORG, and scroll down to the 2010 CONNY Boys Lacrosse Rules Test.

1. Please completely register your name in the CONNY database BEFORE taking the test.

2. At the bottom of the Registration form, please identify the team you will coach and indicate your role on the team (head coach, assistant coach, Scheduler, etc.) as appropriate. You can use several drop down lines if you have multiple roles on a team or multiple teams.

US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 ONLINE COACHES COURSES
You can access the US Lacrosse CEP Level 1 and Level 2 Online Coaches Courses through this link: http://www.uslacrosse.org/cep/online.phtml, which will take you to the Online Course Page.

Then click on “Course Registration Click Here to register for the Level 1 Online Course.”

Then enter CONNY Lacrosse: 262970 into the “program/league name” field. If you forget to write CONNY Lacrosse: 262970 then we have no way to record that you have completed the course.

Be sure to renew your USLacrosse membership before taking this course. The member’s cost for the course is $25.00, which must be paid online at the time you take it. Discuss reimbursement of this cost with your home program, as many CONNY members their coaches’ training expenses.

While registering, you will be asked to identify your ORGANIZATION, please write: CONNY. If you forget to write CONNY then we have no way to record that you have completed the course. The cost of the course is $25 which must be paid online at the time you take the course. Please discuss reimbursement of this cost with your home program.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Coaches who completed the Connecticut Lacrosse Foundation (the US Lacrosse Connecticut Chapter) Coaches Convention on January 10 or the CONNY Coahes Clinic on January 30 have fulfilled their 2010 coaches training requirment. They still must pass the 2010 CONNY Rules Test.

Some member programs seek to fulfill the CONNY coaches training requirements by conducting their own training. The Board has authorized two ways to do this.

First, some towns and cities require training for all youth coaches and other programs have local youth coach training resources equivalent the CONNY recognized PCA, ASEP, and US Lacrosse courses. If this training is professionally administered and covers the philosophical and behavioral issues addressed in PCA, ASEP, and USLax training, the CONNY Training Committee will recognize all who complete it as having attended a Coaches Behavior Training Workshop. Programs interested in pursuing this approach should send the course syllabus and trainer’s credentials to the CONNY Training Committee at for review and approval.

Second, to aid remotely located member programs, the Board has authorized “downstream” workshops, conducted by individuals within the program who first attend the CONNY Workshops. Unless these individuals are trained clinicians, certified by PCA, ASEP, USLax, or a similar organization recognized by the Training Committee, special quality control requirements govern CONNY “trained coach” recognition via this downstream workshop procedure. Programs interested in conducting downstream workshops should contact the Training Committee at for the requirements.