USA Hockey Requirements (Must be completed before participating in any team activities)

• Register as a member of USA Hockey. (Cost is $46 plus any affiliate fees if applicable). Click here for more information.
• Complete the background screening. Click here.
• Complete the USA Hockey Safe Sport Training. (Required every year and cannot be added to a roster until completed). Click here for more information. 
• Complete the Foundations of Player Development Pre-requisite.  
• Complete the online age-specific module(s) for the age level of play you are coaching. (Cost is $20 per module and only needs to be completed once per age level. Must be completed PRIOR to participating in any team activities and cannot be added to a roster until completed) Click here to register for the modules.

Coaching Education Program Certification Clinic Requirements (Must be completed by Dec. 31 each season)

• Find, register and attend the required certification clinic. The Cost is $60. You can only attend one clinic per season and all coaches start at Level 1. You can take clinics from April 1-Dec. 31 each season. Click here to locate a clinic.

• Rules and Requirements: Outlines the standards all USA Hockey certified coaches must meet.
• Coaching Clinics:  Links to the online program for this CEP requirement
• Age-Specific Modules: Requires a USAHockey.com login (this login is NOT related to your USA Hockey member registration or modules)
• Online Certification List: Search for a coach’s certification and completion of an online age-specific module, and print a CEP card
• Student Coaches: Information on the student coach rules
• Coaching Ethics: Learn more about the Coaching Ethics Code  
• Continuing Education: Learn More about Continuing Education

Take USA Hockey's coaching materials to the rink, on the road or wherever else you wish with the USA Hockey Mobile Coach. Find practice plans, skills manuals, goalie drills, small area games, videos, a mobile rulebook and more. 

Follow the link below, then click coaching eLearning for all eLearning content.
Click Here for USAH eLearning Courses

• Dynamic Skating: ($15) This is a continuing education course worth 1 credit and should take 1 hour to complete. In this course, you will learn what skating components all good skaters possess and how to teach them through proper practice design. This module is for coaching ages 12 years and younger, but many of the same principles can be applied to older age groups.
• Creating Learning Environments: ($10) This module will explore the concepts behind creating on-ice learning environments from the Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan. This module will be an interactive learning activity surrounding Mike Sullivan's presentation at the 2021 level 5 symposium in Duluth, Minnesota.
• Incorporating Goalies in Team Practice ($15) In this module, you will learn about how to incorporate your goalie better in your team practices and how you can use the 5 Essential Elements of good practice design to help. This module is worth 1 CE credit and will take 1 hour to complete.
• Level-UP Your Coaching: ($0) This is a continuing education course worth 3 credits. This course is free to enroll thanks to The Million Coaches Challenge Grant. USA Weightlifting and USA Fencing designed this course to provide coaches of all domains information on creating a culture of belonging, coaching Generation Z, and elevating your coaching IQ.
• CoachingHER: ($0) The six COACHING HER® Foundational Modules give coaches specific evidence-based information on how to: develop girls in sport, reduce gender stereotypes and bias in coaching, engage girls, eliminate barriers, support girls' needs and identities, and start to create a climate where all girls thrive.  Each module takes about 15-20 minutes to complete and includes interactive content. This course is worth 1 CE credit

Non-USA Hockey Credited Opportunities

• Athletic Health Space Modules - 3 modules equals 1 credit. Enter program code: USAHockey
• Stop the Bleed Module ($0) - (once completed, send the certificate to brent.seidel@usahockey.org) The Module is worth 1 credit hour. You must send in the certificate to receive the credit.
• Jeff Blashill | Teaching Fundamental Habits (FULL WEBINAR) - YouTube
• USA Hockey Webinar Series - The Language of Coaching: How To Coach Skills with Nick Winkelman, PhD. - YouTube
• USA Hockey's Webinar Series -"How to Create the Most Effective Environment" with Dr. Dean Kriellaars - YouTube
• USOPC Quality Coaching Principles

This USA Coaching Ethics Code intends to provide standards of ethical conduct for coaches involved with USA Hockey and its member organizations. It provides General Principles and Ethical Standards which cover many situations encountered by coaches, with its principle goals the welfare and protection of participants with whom coaches work. Coaches will respect and protect human and civil rights and not knowingly participate in or condone unfair discriminatory practices.