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"ASEP is committed to improving amateur sport by encouraging coaches, officials, administrators, parents, and athletes to embrace the 'athletes first, winning second' philosophy and by providing the education to put the philosophy to work." –Rainer Martens, PhD, ASEP founder In the early 1970s, Rainer Martens, sport psychologist and physical education professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was studying the psychological aspects of youth sport. Through his research and the pioneering work of the Coaching Association of Canada, Martens thought that a major way to improve amateur sport in the United States was to improve the education of coaches. So in 1976 he founded the American Coaching Effectiveness Program (ACEP), which later expanded into the American Sport Education Program (ASEP). Although coaching education is a priority with ASEP, today education programs for officials, sport administrators, parents, and athletes are all part of the ASEP educational agenda. ASEP is one of seven divisions of Human Kinetics , also founded by Martens in 1974. The company is an international publisher of sport, physical activity, and health resources with more than 300 employees and subsidiaries in Canada, Europe, and Australia. In 1981, Martens produced and released the first ASEP course, which focused on coaching philosophy and the basics of sport science, sports medicine, and sport management. By 1986, ASEP had 1,400 certified instructors who had trained more than 50,000 coaches. In 1994, ASEP added educational programs and resources for volunteer coaches, officials, parents, and sport administrators of community youth sport programs, national youth sport organizations, and military and religious sport organizations. In 1990, the National Federation of State High School Associations partnered with ASEP to offer high school versions of ASEP's popular Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid courses. Over the next 15 years, the NFHS and ASEP worked relentlessly with state high school activity associations to implement these courses as required education, or if not required, at least highly recommended for all school coaches. In 2006, with the ASEP/NFHS partnership ended, ASEP now works directly with more than 40 state high school associations in delivering the ASEP Professional Coaches Education Program to more than 25,000 coaches a year. Beginning in 2001, ASEP began revising its high school curriculum, calling it the Bronze Level , which consisted of the two courses mentioned previously and a new series of Coaching Technical and Tactical Skills courses for each high school sport. In addition to updating and expanding the curriculum, in 2004 ASEP began offering the courses as online courses that coaches could take anywhere they could access the Internet.

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