Native American Soccer Coaches Committee
The Native American Soccer Coaches Committee serves Native American communities throughout the United States by providing positive youth development, using soccer as a means to promote health and wellness, youth leadership and life skills. We partner with the NSCAA to provide a soccer curriculum that is designed to promote physical wellness (improve muscular and cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, agility and strength), mental health (positive outlook, cognitive thinking, problem solving, leadership skills and prevention) and teach soccer skills, techniques and tactics.
Our goal is to use soccer as a vehicle to promote character, integrity, leadership, respect and teamwork. We believe that by expanding coaching education to reservations and pueblos throughout the U.S. we will be able to move in a concerted effort to increase the level of coaching we provide and serve as positive role models for the children we serve.
NSCAA’s Assistant Director of Coaching Education and Coaching Development, Dr. Doug Williamson, has provided leadership and support to the programs that we offer. The support of Dr. Williamson and the NSCAA has been instrumental in growing NASCC as well as soccer in Indian Country.
We will be posting coaching courses on our site throughout the year and look forward to all who can attend. For any additional questions, please feel free to contact the chair of the Native American Soccer Coaches Committee, Boyna Bear at boynabear@hotmail.com
The Indigenous Soccer Cup
The Indigenous Soccer Cup is an annual National Native Youth Leadership Conference that uses soccer as a vehicle to reinforce the life skills that the children learn while attending our conference. The skills and presentations include: leadership, youth resiliency, nutrition, wellness, drug/alcohol prevention, college preparation, and workshops to develop positive relationships.
The ISC has had the privilege of having some of the most engaging and influential facilitators/speakers in Indian Country attend our event, including Dr. Clayton Small, Native Pride Inc., and The National Indian Youth Leadership Project.
The summer soccer tournament consists of an 8 v. 8 event with three round-robin games and single-elimination playoff games. The ISC draws more than 250 Native children ages 10-19 from throughout the U.S. and Canada. For the past three years, the ISC has been held on the college campuses of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, respectively.
2011 US Indigenous Games
The 2011 US Indigenous Games were held in Milwaukee this summer. Please visit http://www.milwaukee2011.com for more information.
Contact Us
For any additional questions, please feel free to contact the chair of the Native American Soccer Coaches Committee, Boyna Bear at boynabear@hotmail.com. You can also contact Arron Lujan at alujan@andrew.cmu.edu.