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The College of Education and Human Development's
interest in sports for Maine youth dates back to 1978, when it
sponsored the first statewide conference entitled "Competition
and the Child." The University continued to expand its work
surrounding youth sports with the establishment of the Maine
Center for Coaching Education (MCCE) in 1992. Under this earlier
title, training programs required by the Maine Principals'
Association for all high school coaches were developed and
delivered statewide. In more recent years, the MCCE worked with
schools to connect the sports experience with the attainment of
Maine's Learning Results.
For more than a decade, the MCCE had a focused agenda of
professional development for coaches and connecting sports to
learning. But societal conditions and troubling events in the
youth sports arena caused the University to reconsider, and
ultimately to expand the role of the MCCE to encompass a broad
spectrum of factors dealing with sport. The name of the center
was changed in November 2004 to the Maine Center for Sport and
Coaching (MCSC) to reflect this expanded mission.
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