The OBCA works to help develop coaches across the state through mentorship. The goal of the OBCA mentorship is to help coaches understand balance, professional development, program improvements, guidelines and many more areas of impact.
"A dad comes home tried from work. He plops down on the couch and just as his eyes begin to close he young son run into the room excited to see his dad says " hey dad let's play!"Not wanting to disappoint his son he looks around searches for something to district him. He looks over and see a newspaper ad with a flat picture rendition of a world map. Thinking quickly he get scissors and cut the paper into squares and mixes them up then tells his son that they can play after he puts the "world puzzle" together.Excited at the challenge he get to work on the task.Dad starts to try and get that back to that short nap thinking this puzzle will take a good 15 to 20 minutes.After about 5 minutes the son announces he is finished. The stunned dad looks up and see a complete "puzzle" and asks his son how he had done this so fast, the boy states it was easy and begins to turn over the pieces , as he dose another picture begins to take shape.The picture is of a little boy and little girl .The son says to his dad that he knew if he put the little boy and girl together right the world would be o.k.What we do as teachers, coaches and mentors is helping to put the little boys and girls together right and helping the world be o.k."