Hewlett Lawrence soccer club partners with positive coaching alliance to focus on life lessons

The Hewlett Lawrence Soccer Club (HLSC) has established a partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) to ensure a positive, character-building experience for all youth athletes in HLSC programs. PCA, a Stanford University-based non-profit organization, conducts workshops for coaches, organizational leaders, and parents involved in schools and sports organizations serving five-to-18-year-old athletes.

“Working with hundreds of youth sports organizations around the United States, PCA has developed practical tools and guidelines to help sports parents help their children get the most out of sports,” said HLSC President Rod Leonhard. “We recognize the tremendous opportunity for character-building sports offers for today’s youth, so we are embracing PCA’s Double-Goal Coach® model, where winning is one goal and teaching life lessons is the second, more-important goal. And we also are introducing PCA’s Second-Goal Parent philosophy, where parents focus on the second goal, helping their children take life lessons from sports.”

“We are delighted that HLSC is introducing the Second-Goal Parent approach to youth sports,” said PCA Executive Director Jim Thompson. “Together, we and HLSC will strive to get parents and coaches onto the same page so they can help create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for their youth athletes.”

HLSC has both Saturday and Sunday programs and its fall season starts on September 8-9. Registration and information can be found online at www.hlsc.org



The Hewlett-Lawrence Soccer Club is a non-profit, all volunteer community soccer club serving the Five Towns since 1970. The Club’s history can be traced back to the 1930s. They are a member club of the Long Island Junior Soccer League and Just Say Soccer.

For more information about the Hewlett-Lawrence Soccer Club, please visit www.HLSC.org.

The Positive Coaching Alliance

was founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998. Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) has the mission of “transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth.” To that end, PCA has conducted roughly 6,000 live group workshops nationwide for more than 300,000 youth and high school sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes. Workshop attendees have helped create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.

For more information about PCA, please visit www.PositiveCoach.org.