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Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association

Welcome Tennessee coaches!

Numerous state high school associations, including the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA), currently use ASEP Professional Coaches Education Program courses in qualifying high school coaches.

The TSSAA offers Coaching Principles (classroom) and Sport First Aid (classroom) for meeting TSSAA coaching education requirements.

To take Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid classroom courses, TSSAA coaches should contact the TSSAA for a schedule of clinics or search the ASEP Classroom Course Finder.

Contact Information
Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
Contact: Bernard Childress
3333 Lebanon Rd.
Hermitage, TN 37076
Phone: 615-889-6740
Fax: 615-889-0544
Email: not available
Web: www.tssaa.org


TSSAA Required and Recommended Courses:

Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills

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.
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Online Course With Print Materials Online course suitable for training and certifying high school baseball coaches or for offering as a college course. Advanced youth baseball coaches will also find the course valuable in taking their coaching to the next level.

Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills

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 Online course suitable for training and certifying high school basketball coaches or for offering as a college course. Advanced youth basketball coaches will also find the course valuable in taking their coaching to the next level.

Coaching Cheerleading Principles

Coaching Cheerleading Principles is an online course and test based on the text, Coaching Cheerleading Successfully. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Football Technical and Tactical Skills

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.
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Online Course With Print Materials Online course suitable for training and certifying high school football coaches or for offering as a college course. Advanced youth football coaches will also find the course valuable in taking their coaching to the next level.

Coaching Golf Principles

Coaching Golf Principles is an online course and test based on the text, Coaching Golf Successfully. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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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.
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Online Course With Print Materials Online course suitable for training and certifying high school softball coaches or for offering as a college course. Advanced youth softball coaches will also find the course valuable in taking their coaching to the next level.

Coaching Strength & Conditioning Principles

Coaching Strength and Conditioning Principles is an online course and test based on the text, Bigger, Faster, Stronger. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Swimming Principles

Coaching Swimming Principles is an open-book test based on the text, Coaching Swimming Successfully. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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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.
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Online Course With Print Materials Online course suitable for training and certifying high school tennis coaches or for offering as a college course. Advanced youth tennis coaches will also find the course valuable in taking their coaching to the next level.

Coaching Track & Field Principles

Coaching Track & Field Principles is an online course and test based on the text, Coaching Track & Field Successfully. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Volleyball Principles

Coaching Volleyball Principles is an online course and test based on the text, The Volleyball Handbook. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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Online Course With Print Materials This course can be purchased and taken online.

Coaching Wrestling Principles

Coaching Wrestling Principles is an online course and test based on the text, Coaching Wrestling Successfully. The course satisfies the sport-specific component of ASEP's Bronze Level certification.
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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 This course is offered in a classroom setting led by certified instructors from ASEP partner organizations.
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