The American Hockey Coaches Association is reaching out to its member coaches during this Covid-19 pandemic with a webinar series of instructional presentations. Titled "Coaches for Coaches: Navigating Through Covid-19," the series launches on Tuesday, July 7, with presentations by Penn State University assistant coach Allison Coomey (10:00 a.m. - "Building Your Brand as an Assistant Coach") and Western Michigan Associate head coach Pat Ferschweiler (10:50 a.m. - "Offensive Strategies").

The AHCA, founded in 1947, brings coaches together each year at an annual convention in Naples, FL, where topics of mutual interest are discussed to benefit amateur coaches at all levels. With the cancellation of the 2020 AHCA Convention, the AHCA Board mobilized to fill the void. Leading the way were AHCA President Casey Jones, head coach at Clarkson University and Mare MacDougall Bari, assistant coach at St. Lawrence University. Upon announcing this initiative, they commented, "Our committee has been hard at work to keep our coaching body connected and we hope you will be excited about the programming that the AHCA has set up for July. We reached out to our coaching body and asked what we could do to help during these trying times and in this series of topics and discussions, we tried to cover the scope of everyone's needs."

The webinars will run Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the month of July and are open to all AHCA members. A full schedule of all sessions is below.

ACHA member-coaches will be emailed information on how to access the sessions at the beginning of each week.  If you do not receive an email by 12:00 PM EDT on Monday, please contact ACHA Executive Director Craig Barnett at cbarnett@achahockey.org.