Just a thought here, and maybe it is already available, but why not have an online certification course to allow coaches to get their Bronze card? Coaches could pay the same money it takes to travel somewhere to do the training (less travel time - time away from home on a weekend which we cherish to be with our families, expense of travel, etc). Surely, someone could make an interactive video that gives you the information you need to know to coach youth sports, has interactive scenarios where you test your knowledge of the information you have been given, and take a final exam to pass the course.

Back in the late '80s, I took an all day training course of how to coach youth sports at KU. I was a volunteer coach of the local Kids' Wrestling program and the club director asked me to go to it. As far as I know, it was a relatively new concept in coaching youth sports at the time. I have been in the National Guard for over twenty years, and the military has recently gone to many online interactive training certifications (annual or otherwise) to save time that could be better spent doing hands on training during our once a month weekend drills. These are training certifications that you can do from your home, or at the local library if you are not set up with a computer and internet access at home.

As for the money paid to get a Bronze card, and I have no idea what this money goes to, maybe it could be used to promote something good within the Kansas Kids' Wrestling Federation.