Missouri State High School Activities Association

Welcome Missouri coaches!

Numerous state high school associations, including the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA), currently use ASEP Professional Coaches Education Program Bronze Level courses in qualifying high school coaches. Each year, more than 25,000 coaches across the country are credentialed through ASEP’s Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid courses.

The MSHSAA currently offers Coaching Principles Classroom and Sport First Aid Classroom courses.

To take the Coaching Principles Classroom and Sport First Aid Classroom courses, MSHSAA coaches can contact the MSHSAA for a schedule of clinics or search ASEP’s Classroom Course Finder.

Contact Information
Missouri State High School Activities Association
Contact: Becky Oakes
1 North Keene St.
Columbia, MO 65201
Phone: (573) 875-4880
Fax: (573) 875-1450
Email: email@mshsaa.org
Web: www.mshsaa.org

MSHSAA Required and Recommended Courses:

Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills Course

This course will help you learn how to teach the skills and strategies and techniques and tactics of baseball. You’ll learn about approaches to coaching, including the games approach (an alternative to drills-based coaching), you’ll develop a season plan and a series of practice plans; and you’ll improve your ability to coach during games. This course is suitable for high school coaches and for serious club coaches, and college coaches.
Version or Format Notes
Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills Course

This course will help you learn how to teach the skills and strategies, and techniques and tactics of basketball. You’ll learn about approaches to coaching, including the games approach (an alternative to drills-based coaching), you’ll develop a season plan and a series of practice plans; and you’ll improve your ability to coach during games. This course is suitable for high school coaches and for serious club coaches, college coaches, and advanced coaches at the youth level.
Version or Format Notes
Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Football Technical and Tactical Skills Course

The course is designed to help coaches learn how to teach the technical and tactical skills of football and is suitable for high school coaches, serious club coaches, undergraduate students, and advanced coaches at the youth level.
Version or Format Notes
Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Principles

Coaching Principles covers the fundamentals of being a successful coach. Each year, more than 20,000 high school, club sport, and Olympic coaches take this course to further their professional development and meet certification requirements.
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Instructor-Led Classroom Course With Print Materials This course is offered in a classroom setting led by certified instructors from ASEP partner organizations.

Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills

This course will help you learn how to teach the skills and strategies, and techniques and tactics of softball. You’ll learn about approaches to coaching, including the games approach (an alternative to drills-based coaching), you’ll develop a season plan and a series of practice plans; and you’ll improve your ability to coach during games. This course is suitable for high school coaches and for serious club coaches, college coaches, and advanced coaches at the youth level.
Version or Format Notes
Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Tennis Technical and Tactical Skills

The American Sport Education Program (ASEP) brings the hard court to your hard drive with Coaching Tennis Technical and Tactical Skills online course, a newly released online course for tennis coaches of athletes 15 and older and those coaching higher-ability players ages 11 to 14.
Version or Format Notes
Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Sport First Aid - 4th Edition

Newly revised and updated, this fourth edition of the course provides coaches and students with clear guidelines on what’s expected of them as first responders, as well as action steps for the care and prevention of more than 110 athletic injuries and illnesses.
Version or Format Notes
Instructor-Led Classroom Course With Print Materials