This resource guide helps coaches in effectively assisting and inspiring student athletes. Writing from experience as both athletes and school athletics coaches, the authors detail specific attributes and behaviors of effective youth sports coaches and the knowledge, skills, and intangible assets they must help student athletes develop. This resource guides new and veteran coaches in meeting the needs of the athletes they serve through practical ideas and clear expectations. The book will help you: put game-winning strategies into play; self-reflect on your coaching strengths and challenges; learn which coaching behaviors help build necessary skills in students; help players (and parents) better understand your expectations to monitor their own performance; recognize, reference, and assess priority knowledge, skills, and intangible assets of various sports; study developmental sports scales, which enable players to self-reflect and set criteria-based goals; and contemplate existing practices and ponder ideas for implementation.