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Stated so well! This is exactly why NICA has been so popular and grown so quickly.

@pinegrove: If all someone is doing is mildly supervising children, they don't have business being a coach of any sport or working with kids at all. Look at all the problems around both sexual abuse and injury issues that have hit the news in the last few decades. Coaching children appropriately is much more complicated than it was for peewee soccer back in the day. Any group working with children needs rules and adult training. I remember Level 1 coach training taking about 2.5 hours or so. If a coach just wants to do the bare minimum, they can stay at Level 1 forever. If they want to improve as a coach and mentor, they can choose to take more trainings and increase their coach level.