Coach Credentialing

As a coach, you know your athletes come first. From health and well-being to performance, everything you do is to help them succeed. Staying on top of YOUR game is crucial for that success.

That’s why more than 7,000 coaches are credentialed each year, demonstrating their abilities to coach All Star Cheer and/or All Star Dance. They pledge to make athletes their top priority. Credentialing is a great way to get ready for the season and offers new and useful videos, resources and tools to enhance your game.

Cheer coaches attending The Cheerleading World Championship are required to be credentialed in either building, tumbling or both, up to the level in which their team competes.

Our athletes and their families deserve your best. Their expectations couldn't be any higher. Step up to the standard and earn your USASF Coach Credentialing today.

Credentialing starts with Baseline testing, which is included with membership. This is a one-time course that reviews general information about USASF and USASF policies.

Up next is taking the course from our partner, Positive Coaching Alliance. This is a one-time course that helps coaches explore why and how to pursue both winning and the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports. The fee for this course is $30 paid directly to PCA. Once completed you will not need to repeat this course again.

Your next steps are completing the appropriate level written testing (included with your membership) and practical testing with an instructor ($25, which includes up to 6 level tests) in either Building, Tumbling, or both. These tests verify your knowledge and understanding to teach and break down skills at each level to help keep your athletes safe and injury-free.

Credentialing starts with Baseline testing, which is included with membership. This is a one-time course that reviews general information about USASF and USASF policies.

Up next is taking the course from our partner, Positive Coaching Alliance. This is a one-time course that helps coaches explore why and how to pursue both winning and the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports. The fee for this course is $30. Once completed you will not need to repeat this course again.

Your next step is to complete the dance course and written testing that reviews the Dance Age Grid and General Rules, Individual Rules, and Group and Pairs Rules.

While coach credentialing doesn’t guarantee safety, replace the importance of first aid and CPR training or diminish the importance of other courses or clinics that help train coaches to be good leaders, be organized, use safe training practices, etc., USASF Coach Credentialing should assure members and parents that a cheer credentialed coach knows how to teach the skills required for a team’s given level or that the dance credentialed coach understands the general dance rules to assist in the safety of their dancers.

The U.S. All Star Federation (USASF) has a mission to support and enrich the lives of our All Star athletes and members. We strive to provide consistent rules and safety guidelines, drive competitive excellence and promote a positive image for the sport. The USASF credentials coaches, certifies legality officials and sanctions events - all with the goal to provide the safest possible environment in which athletes may train and compete. Founded in 2003, we are a not-for-profit corporation established in Tennessee and governed by bylaws, officers, a board of directors and fifteen standing committees.

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