ACE Certification

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Here is the link.... http://www.asasoftball.com/youth/certification.asp

I don't see background check listed ... as a requirement.... as well as how many coaches. I did however read somewhere where it had to be one coach certified per team.

 

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Obviously, ask you District commissioner or write Warren Jones at wjonesjr3@verizon.net

Your district commissioner should be able to answer all your questions or even the STATE JO guy ( Tom Williams ) at tubo@zoominternet.net

Good luck

 

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This is from a state director.

"As mandated by the ASA National Board of Directors, each 2010 Junior Olympic Championship Play team (includes all qualifiers and state tournaments
) must have at least one coach within the field of play/dugout ACE Certified in order to participate in Championship Play. The ACE Certification includes a background check. It is highly recommended that all coaches associated with JO Teams complete the ACE Certification program in 2010.

Also required for 2010 Championship Play, each adult on the field or in the dugout must be background checked. This includes anyone helping a team warm up on the field prior to or during the game and anyone sitting in the dugout during the game (including scorekeepers)."

 

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This is from a state director.

"As mandated by the ASA National Board of Directors, each 2010 Junior Olympic Championship Play team (includes all qualifiers and state tournaments
) must have at least one coach within the field of play/dugout ACE Certified in order to participate in Championship Play. The ACE Certification includes a background check. It is highly recommended that all coaches associated with JO Teams complete the ACE Certification program in 2010.

Also required for 2010 Championship Play, each adult on the field or in the dugout must be background checked. This includes anyone helping a team warm up on the field prior to or during the game and anyone sitting in the dugout during the game (including scorekeepers)."

Good luck enforcing that. So, a dad cannot throw with his daughter on the field unless he has a background check. The ASA is getting as bad as OHSAA or the NCAA. Ridiculous.

 

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Money, money, money. The new N$A = A$A ? I was hoping not.

 

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Good luck enforcing that. So, a dad cannot throw with his daughter on the field unless he has a background check. The ASA is getting as bad as OHSAA or the NCAA. Ridiculous.

When it comes to the time when the parents are tired of OHSAA and someone wants to do something about it... OHSAA will do what it wants until someone forcably makes it change through a lawsuit to conform to the other states so the girls from the other states don't have an unfair advantage over the girls from Ohio when it comes to scholarship opportunities based on the availability to play as much as the other states. It will take a federal lawsuit, much like Title IX (9) to get it done and stop the regulating of the student athletes.

I can't do it myself as I don't have a "student-athlete".. so the lawsuit would be a "moot" point and dismissed.

If someone had the opportunity to do so and see it through... as they do indeed have a student athlete... then the people and parents of Ohio should financially help that certain parent for the goals of all the girls and help pay the attorney costs.

I'd figure that the best attorney to represent a parent in this matter.. is the attorney(s) that represented the parents in Michigan in their Federal lawsuit and was successful.

I'd donate to the cause personally.


That's the bottom line.

 

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You only need the ace certification and insurance thru ASA if you are going to a ASA national event..
Straight from our district commissioner if you plan on going to a ASA national then you must get insurance thru ASA... as for the ace certification you don't need it to play in any qualifier only for nationals..

 

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ok, let's assume we need it! How do we go about doing this? How much does it cost and is the ace certification a part of the background check? Thank you

 

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Here is the link.... http://www.asasoftball.com/youth/certification.asp

I don't see background check listed ... as a requirement.... as well as how many coaches. I did however read somewhere where it had to be one coach certified per team.

What is the cost to obtain an ACE membership? Looks like there are several levels.

 

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MRD55
Right on the money

 

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Here is the link to setup an account to get started: http://ace.usasoftball.com/ace/home.asp

There are 4 levels and after you set up an account online, the background check is paid for and it can come back in as quick as an hour or take up to a couple days. You have to check in to your created account to look at the status. After the background check "clears", then you may proceed to level 1. You watch video and take a online test. After level one is passed and submitted, then you move on to level 2 and then level 3 and finally level 4. Level 1,2 and 3 have video and you answer questions online about the video. Level 4 is 25 questions without any video at all. You will receive a book, 2 cards and few other things in a envelope from ASA.

 

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Article 501 B 03 a New and Re-number
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a. Any Junior Olympic team participating in championship play must have at least one ACE certified coach (current year) on the field/dugout during championship play games.
b. All JO team personnel assisting in the dugout must have an ASA background check (current year).
Comments: Mandates that one Junior Olympic Coach be ACE Certified with a background check and all team personnel in the dugout be background checked.
Article 501

Hope this helps. I have been in contact with Warren Jones and took this clip from our correspondence. He is very prompt and helpful.

 

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When I spoke with Warren Jones, he said he was not requiring it for local tournaments, but it was required for nationals.

 

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Once you have a close call, it's not about what the rules say for nationals versus qaulifiers, or who is on the dugout or on the field. The certification is a nice yearly reminder but the background check should be mandatory for anyone that interacts with the girls. And even then this is not fool proof.

I wont go into specifics but a local s***** coach , you know guy, the one nobody suspects, he has kids on the team, with the organization for many years, decided it was appropriate to have inappropriate relations with some very young players. He was caught,arrested as he should have been.

Asking your 8-12 year old daughter some very personell questions about coaches and their relationships is not a very good position to be in.

His record was clean as a whistle and a background check would have never caught it. If he moves into your area wouldnt you want a background check to atleast have a chance of preventing him from joining your organization ?

For $25, if it saves one girl, im all for it !!!! Even if it is a pain in the arse and they never ask me for my ID card.

 

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Been a few posts on this thread about ACE costs, including one from myself, not seeing any costs for each level. Anybody aware of specific costs???

 

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$25.00 initial and then $20.00 per level thereafter....

 

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When I spoke with Warren Jones, he said he was not requiring it for local tournaments, but it was required for nationals.

That's what he said last year as well...

 

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I was told the same thing as ab209ljf.

Only required at Nationals. 1 coach certified.

 

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$25.00 initial and then $20.00 per level thereafter....

Thanks for the costs!

I've read some comments about the tests, are they pretty straight forward, all the questions are taken from the videos? I'm assuming you can watch the videos online.

 

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Thanks for the costs!

I've read some comments about the tests, are they pretty straight forward, all the questions are taken from the videos? I'm assuming you can watch the videos online.

Yes, all the questions (at least for Level 1 that I took) are from the video. They show a 5-7 minute video segment covering a particular subject area (skills, medical, rules, planning a practice, etc.) then they have a few multiple-choice questions. Once you finish those you move on to the next video automatically. No trick questions, just trying to make sure you were listening during the video . Yes, they are all on-line.