Play Like a Champion
Building Character & Elevating the Culture of Youth Sports—Across the World
Notre Dame Youth Sports & Community Programs has partnered with the Play Like A Champion Today™ Educational Series (PLC) on several initiatives enabling us benefit from research proven practices. PLC assists us in providing a positive, healthy and developmental experience for young athletes.
Beginning in the summer of 2012 ND Sports Camps will partner with PLC to ensure our camp counselors understand the Play Like A Champion philosophy of working with young athletes. This will help ensure a positive and enriching experience for our campers.
PLC plays a big role in the success of the Irish Experience Programs, which are formulated to share the holistic approach Notre Dame takes towards student-athlete welfare and development with youth in the community.
ND Youth Sports and Community Programs have also partnered with PLC on Play Like A Champion Uganda. PLC Uganda is program that is incorpating the Play Like A Champion approach to child development and culturaly adapting it for children in rural Uganda. This program will infuse characther development with HIV/AIDS awareness education, enabling children in Uganda to benefit, while affording student-athletes an non-athletes like to share their passions and perform groundbreaking research.
What is PLC?
PLC is an innovative coach and parent education program that is transforming the culture of sports today. Based here at the University of Notre Dame, Play Like A Champion Today™ offers an athlete-centered, research-based approach to coaching and sport parenting by offering interactive coaches clinics and parent workshops.
PLC is a perfect fit for any school, league, or program that wants to help coaches make a positive impact on the lives of the athletes that they coach.
PLC partners with Catholic and public schools, parishes, Catholic dioceses, Catholic Youth Organizations (CYO), Christian sports leagues, or public sports leagues to foster growth in the lives of coaches, parents, athletes, and administrators. You do not have to be Catholic to benefit from PLC!
PLC's Youth and High School Coach Courses are Nationally Accredited by NCACE, National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education.
For more information on PLC, please visit: www.playlikeachampion.org