A Triple-Impact Competitor makes self, teammates, and
the game (or life) as a whole better.

1) SELF
• Personal Mastery > Provides a way to navigate inevitable setbacks that are inherent to sports and life.
• Cultivate a Teachable Spirit  > Like a sponge they soak up anything that will make them better.
• Effort >They understand that effort over time will make them better, so they give their best effort every time.  They develop a Mistake Ritual to grow the ability to bounce back from mistakes quickly.

2) TEAM
• Encouragement > TIC’s make their teammates better by filling their Emotional Tanks when they need it (and most of us need it a lot of the time)
• Perspective > They have a mature understanding of the Window and the Mirror.  They appropriately look through the Window to help teammates get better, and into the Mirror to take responsibility for their own shortcomings.
• Leadership > This habit of making people around you better is called “Leadership”, a much misunderstood term.  Leadership is not just for team captains, and is not about telling people what to do.  Leadership is about making other people better, and Triple-Impact Competitors are Leaders.

3) GAME or LIFE
• Honor > With the ROOTS acronym as a memory aid, TIC’s show respect for Rules, Opponents,   Officials, Teammates and Self.
• Aspiration > The problems of youth sports and our world will be largely resolved when the Triple Impact Competitor model becomes the dominant aspirational model for youth.  Widespread adherence to this model can erode – perhaps eradicate—such ills as use of performance enhancing drugs, win at all cost behavior, and cheating to get ahead in life. 
• Identity > It requires that high school and youth athletes take on this model as part of who they are. When confronted by the temptation to cut corners or cheat or disrespect others, they must say to themselves, “I am a Triple-Impact Competitor.  What would a Triple-Impact Competitor do in this situation?”
• Right Thing > In the end they do what is right, not because it will be rewarded or punished for acting badly.  But because a Triple-Impact Competitor is part of who they are, and they want to  live up to their higher self.
• Beyond Sports we’d like to believe that TIC’s would:
                     - Not sling mud at each other in politics
                     -  Not economically exploit other, less powerful people
                     - Not despoil the environment to make a buck.
                     - Lead a life that helps others and our world

This is the type of person we are trying to build at Bald Eagle Camps and Positive Coaching Alliance.  We aim to give each camper a foundation in what it means to be a Triple Impact Competitor, and tools to help them live it out.

(To find out more about the expansion of the PCA Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Program in Northern California, click here.)

Certified Double Goal Coaches

*A Positive Coach is a "Double Goal Coach".  Certified DGC's have gone through a two hour training run by a Positive Coachin Alliance Certified Trainer.  Founder and Executive Director Bob McFarlane is a PCA trainer.

*A Win-At-All-Cost coach has only one goal: to win.  He or she is concerned primarily with teaching skills and developing strategy designed to win games, not to teach life lessons through althletics.

*A Positive Coach also wants to win but has a second goal: to help players develop positive character traits, so they can be successful in life.  Winning is important, but the second goal, helping players learn life lessons, is more important.  A Positive Coach puts players first.