Welcome Sarasota (Fla.) coaches and administrators!

Sarasota County School District in partnership with Human Kinetics Coach Education is proud to offer our online courses Coaching Principles, Sport First Aid, and advanced sport-specific courses to certify coaches in your district and to earn the Florida Department of Education Athletic Coaching Endorsement.

Coaches earn certification by successfully completing the required online courses and passing the course exams with a minimum score of 80 percent. The courses available include:

1. Coaching Principles is for Sarasota County Coaching Theory.
2. Sport First Aid is for Sarasota County Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries.
3. Advanced sport-specific coaching courses are for Sarasota County Sport-Specific.

Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid are required courses for all coaches. In addition, you must complete a sport-specific course of your choice. Each course is equivalent to three (3) semester hours or 60 in-service points. Requirements for Florida Coaching Endorsement are nine (9) semester hours or 180 in-service points.

Before purchasing your online courses, please contact Jim Clark (contact information appears below) to register in the Sarasota Coaching Education Program. 

The sport-specific courses include accompanying print textbooks. Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid online courses also include accompanying textbooks, but with these courses, you have the choice of receiving the textbooks as e-books or print texts.

E-book course options
In choosing which course format is best for you, consider that with the e-book version, you’ll gain immediate access to the course, nothing will be shipped to you, and you will avoid shipping charges. The e-book is accessed through the online course using Adobe Digital Editions (which you can download free of charge). To ensure your computer is compatible with Adobe Digital Editions, click for technical requirements for accessing e-books.

E-book courses à la carte
Coaching Principles online course with e-book $60.00
Successful Coaching, Fourth Edition delivered as e-book

Sport First Aid online course with e-book $40.00
Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition delivered as e-book

E-book course package
Purchase Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid e-book online courses together and save. After adding each individual course to your shopping cart, enter the promo code FLCP, and you’ll get them for the combined price of $80.00. That’s a savings of $20, and you don’t have to pay for shipping!

Print-book course options
The print-book version provides you with the tangible benefits of having a physical book at your fingertips. The textbook is an excellent reference and is a valuable addition to any coach’s library. The drawbacks are that you have to wait for the book to be shipped to you—and you pay for that shipping. When purchasing a course à la carte, you get immediate access to your course*, but without the textbook in hand, you’re missing a big piece of the learning experience. To get the most benefit from the course, we recommend you wait for the book to arrive before you dive into the course.

Print-book courses à la carte
Coaching Principles online course with print book $70.00
Successful Coaching, Fourth Edition delivered as print textbook
(Tax and shipping charges apply; please allow 3 business days for shipping)

Sport First Aid online course with print book $50.00
Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition delivered as print textbook
(Tax and shipping charges apply; please allow 3 business days for shipping)

Print-book course package
Purchase both print-book courses together as one package and save $20!

* Please note that when purchasing the print-book course package, you will not have immediate access to your courses. You will need to wait for the course materials to be shipped to you. These materials include the print textbooks and key code letters. Key codes are required to “unlock” your online courses on the website.

FL Coaching Education Online Package $100.00
Includes Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid online courses
Successful Coaching, Fourth Edition and Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition delivered as print textbooks
(Tax and shipping charges apply; please allow 3 business days for shipping)

Purchase the online course of your choice by clicking on the text links above or the corresponding online course icons in the table at the bottom of the page, and then clicking “add to cart.” To purchase more than one course in the same transaction, navigate back to this page and repeat the process to add the additional course to your cart.

When you've completed a course, you have the ability to print a certificate of course completion from the website and e-mail a course transcript to whoever may need documentation of courses you've completed. These features are found under the National Coaches Registry area of the site.

Contact Information
Sarasota County School District
Contact: Jim Clark
Cell Phone: 941-915-0022
Office Phone: 941-927-9000 ext. 34111
E-mail: Jim_Clark@Sarasota.k12.fl.us
Web: www.sarasota.k12.fl.us