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Build your professional standing in sport.

See how ASI turns learning, experience, and verified work into a trusted professional credential.

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    Choose your pathwayTell us your role and select the certification that fits your work.
  2. 02
    Complete your journeyLearn with approved providers and bring your evidence back to ASI.
  3. 03
    Earn trusted recognitionASI verifies your work and issues your permanent member ID and QR credential.
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Professional standards for American sport

Standards that move sport forward.

American Sport Institute establishes credible professional standards and awards credentials designed to recognize education, experience, and leadership.

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ASI sets the standard. American Sport Education helps you build the pathway.

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ACCD II

American Certified Club Director II

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  1. 01LearnEducation from ASE and approved partners
  2. 02DemonstrateKnowledge, experience, and competency
  3. 03EarnA credential awarded by ASI

Standards Clear competency frameworks

Credentials Meaningful professional growth

Integrity Independent evaluation and governance

Credential portfolio

Recognition for every kind of sport leader.

Program framework in development

ASI is developing six professional credential frameworks. Detailed standards, eligibility, assessment, fees, and renewal requirements will be published only after formal approval.

ASI — American Certified Sport Coach (ACSC)

Develop professionally throughout your coaching career.

View ACSC1 packageASI — American Certified Team Captain (ACTC)

Build leadership skills that last beyond the game.

View ACTC1 packageASI — American Certified Club Director (ACCD)

Build stronger organizations through better leadership.

View developing pathwayASI — American Certified Lead Official (ACLO)

Elevate officiating through leadership, integrity, and excellence.

View developing pathwayASI — American Certified Sport Leader (ACSL)

Lead sport organizations with confidence and purpose.

View developing pathwayASI — American Certified Event Director (ACED)

Deliver exceptional events through professional leadership and operational excellence.

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The ASI standard

Credentialing built on clarity, integrity, and lifelong growth.

ASI separates the authority that defines and awards credentials from the education providers that help professionals prepare. That distinction protects the value of every credential while keeping pathways open to quality learning and experience.

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    Competency standards

    Clear expectations for knowledge, experience, and professional practice.

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    Evidence and evaluation

    Defined eligibility, assessment, and recognition of prior learning.

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    Credential integrity

    Independent decisions, verification, renewal, ethics, and appeals.

One connected journey

Learn. Stack. Bank. Certify.

The ASE Learning Center is the shared digital gateway connecting education, experience, professional growth, and ASI credential pathways.

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Learn

Build knowledge through ASE, an NGB, or an approved Education Partner.

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Stack

Combine courses, clinics, mentoring, and relevant professional experience.

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Bank

Keep an organized learning record and professional transcript.

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Certify

Apply approved evidence toward a credential awarded by ASI.

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Credential verification

Trust should be easy to confirm.

ASI’s public verification service will provide privacy-conscious confirmation of credential status when the first credentials are issued.

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For the organizations shaping sport

Two clear ways to strengthen your people and programs.

American Sport Institute

Credentialing and standards

Explore credential frameworks, qualifying-education standards, governance, and future recognition pathways.

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American Sport Education

Education and professional development

Strengthen curriculum, course production, learning technology, program delivery, leadership development, and reporting.

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A connected national ecosystem

Better leaders build better sport.

Discover how ASI and ASE connect professional standards with education, experience, and lifelong learning.

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