Development Resources

Online Training with Play By The Rules

Play by the Rules offers free online training courses for coaches, administrators, officials and players about their rights under responsibilities under discrimination and child protection laws.

The courses are short (taking no more than two hours), may be done in part or all at once, and make extensive use of case studies.

Users who successfully finish a course and its assessment module can print a certificate of completion.

Coaching Accreditation

Our guide to help you get your coaching accreditation

Umpiring Accreditation

Our guide to getting your umpiring accreditation.

Core Skills of Hockey

A catalog of the core skills of hockey with tips on how to observe and give feedback on each of them.

Skills Progression

A table of the skills that should be learned at various age levels