Minority Coaches Committee
The AVCA Minority Coaches Committee is supplied a grant by the NCAA that allows them to conduct several different clinics throughout the country, providing a unique opportunity for minority coaches to receive instruction and training from the top NCAA coaches on how to become a better coach and leader. All of the clinics offered participants learning opportunities in individual skill instruction as well as career and professional development opportunities in coaching. All participants of the clinics and workshops are granted access to bond, network, grow and learn from coaches within the ranks of the NCAA, an opportunity they may have not received otherwise.
Each year at the AVCA Convention, the committee offers scholarships to a group of minority coaches who are looking to pursue a head coaching position at the NCAA level. For the 2010 AVCA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, ten applicants will be invited to receive the scholarship and attend the convention.
2011 Workshop Information -- TBD
Click here to access the official page of the Minority Coaches Committee!
Highlights from 2009-10 Workshops
2009 AVCA Annual Convention-Tampa, Florida
Clinicians: Rose Snyder (Rose Snyder Consulting, LCC), Jeff Gonyea, Tonya Johnson (Georgia Tech), Marcy Paul (YWCA Fort Worth & Tarrant County Department for Racial Justice), Jeremy Boone, Jon Aharoni.
"This was a great opportunity to see women like me who are successful."
"I have learned a lot on various aspects and I will take the information to further my career. The workshop touched on many topics that will help and information that I needed to hear and is not always available to me."
Memphis, Tennessee- May 15, 2010
Clinicians: Deitre Collins-Parker (San Diego State), Penny Lucas-White (Hutchison School)
"I loved the interaction between facilitators and participants. Instructors were very knowledgeable and very personable as well!"
