Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball
What is Hawaii
Kai Youth Baseball?
Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball (HKYB) is an all volunteer, non-profit organization
dedicated to the promotion of
youth baseball and to the positive development of Hawaii Kai's youth.
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Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball (HKYB) Objectives and Purposes To promote, build and maintain the health, welfare, and character of the youth of the community. To provide instruction, adult supervision, equipment, facilities, and related services to the youth of the community to the end that they may better learn discipline and sportsmanship while participating in organized Hawaii baseball. To augment and supplement the physical education programs of the public/private schools so as to provide the youth of the community with an opportunity to participate in team sports to an extent not otherwise available. To provide the community with a permanent organization which may coordinate with other Local/State/National Organizations. |
What is expected of
the players and offered to them
1) A positive attitude on and off the field is expected.
2) A willingness to participate and learn.
3) Learning to be part of a team.
4) Punctuality to games and practices.
5) The opportunity to gain self-confidence by achieving goals and
the satisfaction of learning a difficult sport.
What is expected of the parents and offered to them
1) To be supportive of their child.
2) A commitment to their child's punctuality at games and practices.
3) To support their child's team with the occasional potluck after games.
4) The opportunity to meet other parents who share their similar family values.
5) To experience their child's enjoyment and growth and the satisfaction it
brings as a parent.
What is expected of the coaches and offered to them
1) A genuine desire to help children learn and enjoy the game
of baseball.
2) Patience and a positive attitude is required.
3) A solid understanding of the game.
4) The ability to properly manage a team and guide them through the season.
5) The satisfaction and experience of sharing their teams enjoyment and
growth as they learn the game of baseball.
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For Immediate Release
(Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball) Earns Positive Coaching Alliance Seal of
Commitment for 2010
(March 1, 2010),
Stanford, CA – (Hawaii
Kai Youth Baseball) has
earned the Positive Coaching Alliance Seal
of Commitment for 2010.
PCA bestows this prestigious national honor only upon youth sports
organizations and schools that officially commit to providing youth athletes a
positive, character-building experience by requiring every coach to be trained
and certified as a Double-Goal CoachÒ.
“A Double-Goal
Coach strives not only to win (goal #1), but also to use sports to teach life
lessons,” said Jim Thompson, PCA’s founder and executive director. “Likewise,
PCA’s Seal of Commitment helps ensure that (Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball)
provides all of its youth athletes with a positive, character-building
experience.”
(Hawaii Kai
Youth Baseball) boasts (58) certified Double-Goal Coaches, serving (250) youth
athletes, said (HKYB’s President, Brandon Perreira). “Earning PCA’s Seal of
Commitment reinforces our commitment to focus on the best interests of our
youth athletes. It takes work to get coaches certified, but we owe it to the
families participating in our programs to provide the best experience
possible.”
For a list of
youth sports organizations nationwide that have earned PCA’s Seal of
Commitment, please visit http://www.positivecoach.org/commitment.aspx.
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford
University Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) has
the mission of “transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth.” To
that end, PCA has conducted more than 7,000 live group workshops nationwide
for more than 400,000 youth and high school sports leaders, coaches and
parents. Workshop attendees have helped create a positive, character-building
youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.
PCA’s partnership network includes more than 1,700 youth sports organizations,
cities and schools. In 2009, PCA will conduct roughly 1,300 live, group
workshops across the U.S., while assisting thousands of other individuals via
online workshops at www.PositiveCoach.org.
PCA workshops train coaches to be Double-Goal Coaches®, whose first goal is winning and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports. PCA sports parent workshops cultivate “Second-Goal ParentsÔ,” who focus on life lessons through sports. PCA student-athlete workshops produce “Triple-Impact CompetitorsÔ,” who work to improve themselves, their teammates, and their sport as a whole.
PCA has the support of elite coaches and athletes on a National Advisory Board (http://www.positivecoach.org/advisoryboard.aspx), including National Spokesperson, Los Angeles Lakers Coach Phil Jackson.
Hawaii Kai Youth Baseball (HKYB)
P.O. Box 25942
Honolulu, HI 96825
www.hkyb.org
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