Coaching Requirements
Requirements
All coaches must complete all requirements before participating in any team activities.
To confirm your Coaching status please view this list:
Please send any questions or updates to the Safe Sport Coordinator using the contact link at the top of this page.
- BHC Coaching Application Form
- Click here for the form.
- USAH Registration (Yearly for Current Season)
- Must be completed prior to coaching, on or off the ice.
- Register with USA Hockey
- Background Screening (Every 2 years)
- Must be completed prior to coaching, on or off the ice.
- Start the Background Screening Process
- Advise the Bowie Hockey Club SafeSport Coordinator of the date you initiated your background check
- Part of the process is a lookup based on your personal information to see if you are eligible to submit a background screen request. If you are not eligible, the system will indicate for which season your next background check is due.
- You will only be contacted if your background check returns a concern. Normally, if you hear nothing after two weeks from date of submission, you will be considered clear by BHC.
- USAH Certification (1 level every year up to level 3 and then maintain or 4/5)
- Deadline for registration is October 31.
- Deadline for completion is December 31.
- Register for a Coaches Clinic.
- USAH Age Specific Module(s) (Once for every age group you coach). Per USA Hockey requirements, Age-Specific Modules "Must be completed PRIOR to participating in any team activities and cannot be added to a roster until completed"
- TRAVEL COACHES - Deadline for completion is August 15th.
- REC COACHES - Deadline for completion is October 1st.
- Register for Age Specific Module.
- Safe Sport Training (Annual requirement)
- Deadline for completion is August 15 for Travel coaches, and October 1 for Rec coaches.
- Register for Safe Sport.
- The Bowie Hockey Registrar will be able to validate your completion on the USA Hockey website.
- CDC Concussion Awareness Training (every 2 years)
- Deadline for completion is August 15 for Travel coaches, and October 1 for REC coaches.
- Register for Concussion Training.
- Once you have completed the training make either a paper copy or electronic copy of your certificate because the website will not keep a record once you leave.
