We are not an all-inclusive Sporting Goods Store. We specialize in team youth sports equipment and uniforms. We also specialize in the coaching of these youth team sports. We are interested in what youth sports leagues, organizations, and coaches want and need. We have taken surveys to find out what they would like to see on this site and which brand names they are most interested in. We admit that our surveys are not 100% accurate. We are willing to change brands, change products, or add other sports. You tell us what you want and if enough of our customers agree, you will find it on here. We want this web-site to be formed by our customers and we expect the manufacturers to listen. For your input and comments contact us at input@thecoachingstore.com.

Also, if you are looking for something that you cannot find here, please take into account that through our retail store, Coach & Play Team Sports, we sell thousands of other products not on this site. Through Coach & Play we not only sell retail but we sell League Direct. Contact us for any item you may be looking for at sales@thecoachingstore.com. We will quickly send you an estimate on anything you could possibly need.

The president and founder of this company is Vince Ballardo. He has been coaching youth sports for over 30 years. He started when he was 18, coaching his nephews and nieces. He coached his son for several years and his son is now in college. He continues to coach other kids in community youth leagues. The only time he has not coached was during a period when he had cancer. In his mid-thirties he got leukemia. He had a bone-marrow transplant from an unrelated donor and was given a small percentage chance of survival. As soon as he was able to, he started coaching again. To this day, because of continual rejection problems, there are days that are difficult just for him to get out of bed. But because of his love of coaching, he continues to influence today’s youth. In 1999 he became one of the first recipients of Legoland’s Heart of Learning Awards for his positive influence on children and his willingness to coach through an adverse situation. Vince realizes how lucky he is and this site will donate 10% of its profits to cancer research.

Today’s world has a lot of kids that want to play sports but very few organizations can find enough coaches. This site not only sells products to assist coaches but also seeks to find new coaches. This site is looking for those parents that are thinking about coaching but for some reason decide not to. This site hopes to convince those parents that there are very few things more important in life than coaching your own child and influencing the lives of other children. If you want to contact Vince or anyone at thecoachingstore.com you can use our "Discussion Forum" or e-mail us at contactus@thecoachngstore.com