Application Process

Each year the NSCAA Foundation awards grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that provide financial assistance for them to host NSCAA Coaching Academy non-residential diploma courses at their own locations.

These grants are made possible through the generosity of many donors. Grants are funded using unrestricted funds, general endowment funds, and numerous named endowment funds including the Walter Chyzowych Fund at the NSCAA Foundation.

Grants underwrite all the costs for an organization to host an NSCAA Coaching Academy nonresidential diploma course and clinic at its own facilities for all its volunteer coaches, parent coaches, and youth players at no expense to the organization or the attendees.

For more information and to apply for a grant, click on http://nscaafoundation.org/grants.

History

The first Walt Chyzowych Memorial Fund (now the Walter Chyzowych Fund at the NSCAA Foundation) soccer clinic was organized and conducted by College of Charleston SC Soccer Coach Ralph Lundy on Memorial Day 1995.

Over 130 youngsters attended the Clinic raising $1800 for the WCMF. The clinic was staffed by a virtual “Who’s Who” of college, high school and NSCAA Academy and US Soccer Coaching School coaches including: Anson Dorrance, John Rennie, Gene Chyzowych, Ralph Polson and Nick Zlatar.

Since then clinics have been conducted nationwide including at Wake Forest University, U. of Alabama, Birmingham, Indiana University and at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida.

Now, as the Walter Chyzowych Fund at the NSCAA Foundation, soccer clinic grants will be administered through the NSCAA Foundation (http://nscaafoundation.org/grants.)