{"id":18808,"date":"2025-10-27T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:20:09","slug":"new-initiative-seeks-to-encourage-people-to-become-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18808\/","title":{"rendered":"New initiative seeks to encourage people to become coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have children who take part in youth sports, you&#8217;ve probably heard about, or even been asked yourself to take part in coaching.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as communities across the state and country are in need of coaches for sports across all ages.<\/p>\n<p>According to USTA Coaching&#8217;s Megan Rose, a lot of children are getting into tennis, but she says the number of coaches isn&#8217;t keeping up.<\/p>\n<p>USTA Coaching is a new initiative with the goal of being to educate and encourage people to become tennis coaches. Rose says to be a good youth coach, it&#8217;s important to have a good personal connection and create a rapport with them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really about keeping kids on the court building their confidence understanding the importance of a healthy lifestyle, and tennis being the world&#8217;s healthiest sport, we want to make it so that kids stay out there for their whole lives and when we just contribute to healthier communities everywhere,&#8221; Rose said.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn about youth sports coaching opportunities in your community, reach out to your local youth sports league or school district to see what opportunities are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have children who take part in youth sports, you&#8217;ve probably heard about, or even been asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2024,11101,113,2025,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,380,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-18808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-in-the-community","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}