The National Alliance For Youth Sports has been
America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for
children for the past 25 years. It serves volunteer coaches,
parents with children involved in organized sports, game officials,
youth sports administrators, league directors, and the youngsters
who participate in organised sport. The Alliance's programmes
are used in more than 3,000 communities across the USA by parks and
recreation departments, Boys & Girls Clubs, Police Athletic
Leagues, YMCAs/YWCAs, and various independent youth service groups,
as well as on military installations worldwide. For more
information on the Alliance's programmes visit www.nays.org.

Greg Bach is the communications director for the National
Alliance For Youth Sports, a position he has held since 1993.
Before joining NAYS, he worked as the sports editor of the Huron
Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan, where he captured numerous
writing awards from the Associated Press, Michigan Press
Association, and the Hearst Corporation. He has a journalism degree
from Michigan State University, which he earned in 1989. He's
an avid sport fan and has coached a variety of youth sports.

James Heller has been involved in football on and off for
over 35 years. As a player, he played from youth-team level through
into senior football. He has also helped to coach and manage
football teams at several different age levels. In his time
associated with 'the beautiful game' he has seen junior
football coaching in the UK improve from a situation where 20
children ran around a muddy park aimlessly chasing the ball,
watched by two cold goalkeepers, to one where the focus is on
mini-soccer, skills improvement, and 'one child, one
ball' training sessions.