Thank you for volunteering to be a coach. In order to be eligible you will need to obtain SafeSport and Intro to Safety Course  certificates and undergo a background check.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT PAY FOR ANY OF THESE CLASSES, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF AT A WEBSITE ASKING FOR PAYMENT YOU ARE NOT AT THE CORRECT SITE  

To complete the training please log into your Sports Connect account which can be accessed by going to www.scysc.com and clicking login

Click on volunteer.

You will see a pop-up screen like this:

Click in the box for Safesport Certification

Click renew and update

Click on Begin Training

This will take you to U.S. Soccer Learning Center

You will need to either login or sign up for an account. (this account needs to have the same email, name formatting as your Sports Connect account has so that they sync properly

Once signed in:

Click on Courses

Click on supplemental courses

You will then see the two courses

Please complete Safesport and Intro to Safety

Once these are completed, they will automatically sync up to your sports connect account and show completed on the volunteer screen. If they do not, please email [email protected] 

When initially registering to coach there is an option to upload your certificates, please disregard this option and follow the steps above.

Once you have the Intro to Safety Course and Safesport completed it will show on the volunteer screen for Concussion, Sudden Cardiac Arrest and SafeSport as status verified and Compliant box checked.

These have to be completed prior to doing the background check. Once they are done, please complete the next steps.

Click on the Risk Status box

Click Renew and Update

Enter your SSN # and hit submit

The background check results can take up to 72 hours and once that is complete you will see the status as approved.

For more information on the background check process click here.