The 3 C’s of Team Chemistry
Guide athletes through connection, communication, and community.
Level up your coaching with a clear framework for strengthening communication and connection. With these strategies, you can help your players feel supported, stay engaged, and ready to support and lead their teammates.
The 3 C’s of Team Chemistry was created for coaches, athletic directors, community-based organization recreation and sports staff, and other sports educators of middle and high school youth, especially girls and gender-expansive youth in sports.
This 2-hour online training is live, experiential, and highly interactive.
“All coaches, whether working with brand-new afterschool club teams, to guiding highly experienced players in highly competitive teams, will benefit from this training and be ready to use the activities and check-in tools right away.” –Dr. Jia Nettles, National Sports Program Director
What you’ll learn:
- Understanding how gender norms and expectations impact athletes’ relationships, such as exclusion, gossip, the silent treatment, or cliques.
- Building asset-based team cultures where athletes feel they belong, can communicate openly, and feel that they belong in community.
- Practicing communication strategies, such as processing losses without blame, or conflict as an opportunity for change.
Date & Time:
Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:00 – 4:00 PM Pacific
3:00 – 5:00 PM Mountain
4:00 – 6:00 PM Central
5:00 – 7:00 PM Eastern
Price:
$50 sliding scale
Why is this especially important for girls?
Many girls and gender-expansive youth face real challenges in sports, from lack of access to the right gear to team cultures that value competition over connection. On top of that, even the most talented athletes falter under pressure and team chemistry issues can derail a season, or motivate a girl to drop out of her sport altogether. Coaches play a powerful role in shifting this—by creating environments where girls and gender-expansive youth maintain focus under stress, foster trust among players with big personalities, and build a resilient team culture that supports both winning and long-term growth. Effective communication and genuine connection are foundational to successful teams. When athletes feel heard, valued, and part of a supportive community, motivation, trust, and performance increase.
Facilitator
Dr. Jia Nettles
National Sports Program Director
Check Girls Leadership’s sports programming here.
On February 1, 2023, Girls Leadership and Warriors Basketball Academy powered by Rakuten co-hosted an event in celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day — a nationwide celebration to enable girls and women to reach their potential in sports and life. Check out the inspiring pictures here, and learn what basketball means to the girls and how they plan to support others in their basketball and leadership journey.
Girls Leadership also offers private online trainings and in-person trainings.
Ready to Bring Girls Leadership to Your Athletics Program?
Contact Amal Aziz at amal@girlsleadership.org.
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