Intro to Coaching Youth Sports: A Step By Step Booklet To Get Your GAME On Track!

For the past ten years, Coach Al has helped develop a youth sports and enrichment program called Koa Sports League, located in Bethesda, MD. As the director of community affairs, He has worked hand and hand with the C.E.O to create and run youth sports enrichment programs while specializing in providing a premium youth sports experience to our members. As a mid-level professional with over 20 years of experience, Coach Al developed and managed a lot of dynamic programs for young men and women. He also have in-depth experience in adolescent and adult juvenile justice programs spanning a diversity of social and human service environments including social activism, case management, youth development, community outreach, and community service. As a case manager for an adolescent correctional facility, Coach Al prepped clients and participants to assist them in entering and or re-entering the workforce; conducted an in-depth assessment to determine client interest as well as skill level; provided job coaching; conducted workshops on life skills development; met with prospective employers to assess their needs and to identify appropriate clients. Additionally, as a communicator, Coach Al have done extensive work with clients from diverse backgrounds and ages. In this role, He has formed relationships with a wide variety of individuals, provided services to meet the needs of a diversified group of individuals, and strengthened clients' overall skill set.
In his expertise and experiences as an urban youth program developer, Coach AL helped to create the kinds of programs that make a difference in the urban landscape. For example, because of his hands-on expertise as an enrichment program developer, He has been recently able to share that knowledge in a one-on-one teaching relationship or as a mentor for many sports programs throughout the country. Coach Al is extremely proud of the work he has been able to do using sports to enrich and mentor male youth into becoming their best selves.
As a United States Navy veteran, Coach Al has honorably served 98% of his enlistment at sea. Successfully served in Operation Desert Storm / Desert Shield as well as Operation Sea Signal. Along with the US Coast Guard, my battlegroup assisted with the repatriation of migrants to Haiti as Petty Officer 3rd Class in the Service division aboard the Amphibious Assault Vessels, USS-Harlan County, and the USS-Tortuga.
Navy "E" Ribbon 1990
Humanitarian Service Medal - 1991
National Defense Service Medal - 1991
Kuwait Liberation of Kuwait Medal Ribbon - 1991
Saudi Arabian Medal Ribbon for the Liberation of Kuwait - 1991
Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - 1991
In his 26 years of coaching baseball, basketball & football, Coach Al has recruited, mentored and coached a record-breaking number of student-athletes throughout the years. He has helped to develop thousands of high school players, over 300 NCAA student-athletes as well as a few professionals.
4 active NFL players
1 MLB player
3 European Football players
2 NYC Warner Conference Football Championships, 10 NSFL Football Championships, 2
BABL Baseball Championship, 2 CCBL Basketball Championships
25 consecutive year win seasons,
45 players committed with four-year institutions, including 15 signed with NCAA Division-1
schools.