Every rating, backed by what the evaluator saw.
An evaluator watches a coach's session and talks through what they see. Coach Sidekick files each observation, in the evaluator's own words and tied to the moment, under the rubric. The evaluator sets every band and the outcome, and approves the report before the coach receives it.
Narrate the visit. The evidence files itself.
Evaluator's narration · U14 training, Coach D. Whitfield
- 06:10Field's set before they arrive: cones out, bibs sorted, groups ready. Almost no dead time.
- 11:45Grid's a touch big for the four v two. The defenders can't get any pressure on.
- 18:30She freezes it, asks where the free player is, and lets them find it.
- 24:05Fourth time the switch has come up, and she hasn't forced it once.
- 31:20Pulls [name redacted] aside: first touch went backwards, open up to the far side.
C License style: Six Tasks of a Coach
Coaching Training Sessions
Has the area, balls, bibs and groups ready before players arrive, so little time is lost
Green“Field's set before they arrive: cones out, bibs sorted, groups ready. Almost no dead time.”06:10
Sizes the playing area to the age group and to the situation being trained
Yellow“Grid's a touch big for the four v two. The defenders can't get any pressure on.”11:45
Sets the activity up so the target situation keeps happening, and leaves the solution to the players
Not set“Fourth time the switch has come up, and she hasn't forced it once.”24:05
Asks players questions to find out what they understood, instead of only telling them
Not set“She freezes it, asks where the free player is, and lets them find it.”18:30
Leading the Player
Gives each player feedback about something they actually did
Not set“Pulls [name redacted] aside: first touch went backwards, open up to the far side.”31:20
Bands set by the evaluator, E. Moreno. Coach Sidekick files the evidence and never scores.
Example visit with a demo evaluator and coach. Rubric: C License style, Six Tasks of a Coach, built from public 2021–22 U.S. Soccer materials. The Six Tasks names are U.S. Soccer's and the row wording is ours; not U.S. Soccer's current rubric of record, and not affiliated with or endorsed by U.S. Soccer.
A report the coach can learn from, and a record you can stand behind.
Frozen at approval.
When the evaluator approves, the report is saved as a PDF snapshot of exactly what was approved. A Word copy is there too for programs that file in Word.
The coach reads it, not hears it.
The coach claims their reports with a one-time link and sees the quotes, the bands, the outcome and the summary. The audio stays with the evaluator who recorded it.
Names redacted at the source.
Players and anyone else named on the recording are redacted at the source, in the transcript the report is built from.
The rubric says where it came from.
Every report states which framework and version it was scored against, including that framework's own note on its source.
See a coach grow across visits.
Your evaluators keep a band history for every coach, row by row, visit by visit. It's kept per framework version and never averaged into a single number, so growth shows as what it is: an evaluator's call moving, with the evidence behind each one.
Coach D. Whitfield · band history · C License style, v2
| Rubric row | Sep 12 | Oct 3 | Oct 24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sizes the playing area to the age group and to the situation being trained | Red | Yellow | Green |
| Asks players questions to find out what they understood, instead of only telling them | Yellow | Yellow | Green |
| Gives each player feedback about something they actually did | Yellow | Green | Green |
Your rubric, versioned.
C License style: Six Tasks of a Coach
Built from the public 2021–22 U.S. Soccer C-License materials: Coaching Games, Coaching Training Sessions, Leading the Team, Leading the Player, Managing the Performance Environment and Leadership, with Green, Yellow and Red bands and an evaluator-set outcome. The Six Tasks names are U.S. Soccer's; every row is written in our own words. Not U.S. Soccer's current rubric of record, and not affiliated with or endorsed by U.S. Soccer.
A general coach observation framework
Seven dimensions common across public coach-education curricula: session design and planning, organization, observation and analysis, interventions and feedback quality, communication, learning climate and engagement, and game management. No bands, for clubs that want observation without grading.
Questions about coach evaluation
- Does the AI rate coaches?
- No. It finds and files the evaluator's own observations. Every band, the outcome and the summary are set by the evaluator, and there is no field for the AI to score anything.
- Is this U.S. Soccer's rubric?
- No, and we're not affiliated with U.S. Soccer. One framework is built from the public 2021–22 C-License materials, with every row written in our own words, and says so on every report. We can load a program's current rubric as a new framework version; past reports keep the version they were scored against.
- Can a club evaluate its own coaches?
- Yes. A director of coaching can run visits on their own staff, choosing the framework for each visit, and each coach gets their approved reports.
- How do evaluators get access?
- We set up your evaluators with you, along with the frameworks you work from. Evaluators record on the iPhone app or upload audio, and review on the web.