USA Cycling CEU Policy for Coaches

For renewal information, please visit the Renewal Procedures page.

Please review the CEU policies.  When you take out the coaching license application, you are agreeing to abide by the CEU policy.

While one must renew the coaching license annually, CEUs (and the criminal background check) are required every other year in order to renew. 

Each coach is responsible for maintaining a record of his/her own CEU records.  While USA Cycling may have a record of who has attended USAC sponsored events, USAC has no way of knowing what activities a coach has attended outside of USAC sponsored events.  If a coach pays for the event through the MYUSACYCLING function, the coach should be able to view his/her account details to see a listing.  Remider:  Activities that a coach normally does as part of coaching (leading rides, being at training, talking with athletes) do not constitute continuing education.

Coaches also earn CEUs for earning the level 3 certification as well as attending level 2 and level 1 certification clinics.  Many coaches forget to count USAC certifications as CEUs.

The USA cycling continuing education policy is found click here.
 Some recent updates (these are included in the policy linked above):
Effective December 1, 2009 the level 3 certification is worth 2.0 CEUs.
Effective January 1, 2010, the level 2 clinic is worth 3.0 CEUs.

In addition to attending seminars offered by USA Cycling, USA Cycling approves many seminars and clinics for CEU credit offered by third parties. If you are interested in attending a conference or presentation and wish to inquire about possible USAC CEUs, please email the Coaching Education Manager with an agenda or a link to the agenda and information about the conference or presentation.  USA Cycling maintains a list of approved courses; this list is not exhaustive. It merely reflects the activities that have been submitted to USA Cycling.  If you do not see an event there, it does not mean that is has no CEU value.  Most likely it just has not been submitted for prior approval.  The list of courses can be found on the Approved CEU Programs page.

CEUs can also be earned via The Gatorade Sport Science website, click on Continuing Education. There is no charge for CEUs at the GSSI website.  Please note that the GSSI offerings are worth 0.1 CEU (not the 1.0 CEU listed on the GSSI page or certificate).

CEUs can also be earned through the Performance Conditioning for Cyclists newsletter that all coaches receive.  Each Performance Conditioning self test is worth 0.1 CEU and the CEU is granted for the year in which it is received a the USAC offices.  The exception to the last section is that if you are renewing and your CEUs are due;  if you send in the self- tests with the CEU Summary Report form and other renewal materials, the self-tests will count for the period necessary for renewal.  Example: if your CEUs are due to renew for 2010 and you are 0.5 CEU short as of December 31, 2009, you can send in five (5) self-tests (and the requisite fees) with the renewal paperwork in January 2010 and the self-tests will count for 2009.  The exception is that the online self-tests must count in the calendar year they are received.

Some other changes related to the Performance Conditioning self-tests:
Effective January 1, 2010 if you send in the self-tests the fee will be $25 per self-test.
Effective January 1, 2010 if you pay for the self-test online and take the electronic version, your fee will be $15 per test.  The value for the online tests beginning January 1, 2010 will drop to 0.1 CEU (the same as the mail in version).  Basically, the bonus is being removed.

This Article Published 2004-06-23 14:31:53 For more information contact: scallan@usacycling.org