CPR, AED and First Aid Training for Coaches and Athletic Programs
Your Trainer Isn’t at Every Practice. Your Coaches Are.
Return 2 Sinus certifies coaches, athletic staff, and volunteers in CPR, AED, and First Aid at your field, gym, or club. Most states now regulate sudden cardiac arrest in youth athletics, and many of those laws reach the people who run practices, not just the ones who run games.
Onsite training for schools, clubs, leagues, and travel programs nationwide.
No. 1
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes.
49%
Survival across 641 young competitive athletes who suffered cardiac arrest between 2014 and 2023.
70% vs 53%
Survival during games compared with practices, where fewer people and less equipment are on hand.
Source: American College of Cardiology, Survival Outcomes After Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Young Competitive Athletes, 2025.
Why Coaches
The Gap Between a Friday Game and a Tuesday Practice
Young athletes who go into cardiac arrest during a game survive at 70 percent. During practice it falls to 53 percent. Same athletes, same hearts, same sport. The difference is who happens to be standing there and whether they know what to do next.
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes.
It happens in conditioning, in the weight room, and at open gyms, not only under the lights on Friday.
A blunt blow to the chest from a ball or a puck can stop a completely healthy young heart.
Survival for young athletes climbed from 48 percent to 72 percent over the last decade, driven by faster bystander response.
Heat illness, concussions, fractures, dental injuries, asthma attacks, and anaphylaxis fill the rest of a season.
Your athletic trainer covers varsity games. Nobody covers the freshman practice on the back field.
Awareness laws make sure your coaches have heard of sudden cardiac arrest. They do not make sure any of them can respond to one.
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia now have sudden cardiac arrest laws covering youth athletics, and most of them center on education and signed acknowledgment forms. Awareness is worth something. It is not the same as a coach who has knelt on a manikin, felt how hard a real compression has to be, and opened an AED case before the day it counts.
State Requirements
The AED Requirement Usually Comes With a Training Requirement
Most athletic departments know about the defibrillator on the wall. Fewer have read the rest of the statute in their state.
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia have sudden cardiac arrest laws covering youth athletics, and the list keeps growing.
Many of those laws require coaches to hold current CPR and AED certification, not simply to read a handout once a season.
A growing number also require AEDs at athletic venues and a cardiac emergency response plan that gets rehearsed rather than filed in a binder.
“Coaches, athletic trainers, other persons that supervise interscholastic athletics.”
That phrasing comes from one state statute, and versions of it now appear across the country. The practical answer is the same wherever you operate. Certify everyone who is ever the adult in charge, and keep a roster with names and dates. We handle the training and the documentation. Your district counsel or state athletic association should confirm the specific rule where you are.
Who We Train
Anyone Who Is the Adult in Charge at Practice.
Varsity head coaches, sure. Also the volunteer running the middle school program, the parent who opens the gym, and the assistant who is alone with fifteen kids on a Tuesday.
High School Athletic Departments
Middle School & Youth Leagues
Club & Travel Teams
Recreation Centers & City Leagues
Gyms, Dojos & Training Facilities
Cheer, Dance & Gymnastics
Swim Clubs & Aquatics
Volunteer Coaches & Team Parents
Training Programs
Built for the Sideline.
Same certification, taught against the emergencies that actually happen at a practice or a meet.
CPR for Athletes
Compressions and rescue breathing for teens and adults, plus the child and infant variations you need if your program runs younger age groups.
AED on the Sideline
Case open, pads placed, shock delivered, inside the first few minutes, when a shock does the most good. Practiced until it is muscle memory.
Sideline First Aid
Heat illness, concussion recognition, severe bleeding, fractures and dislocations, dental injuries, asthma attacks, and anaphylaxis.
Beyond the Card
A Plan Your Staff Have Actually Rehearsed.
Most cardiac emergency response plans are required to be rehearsed, not just written. A plan nobody has walked through is a document, not a response. We can run the drill in the same session as the certification.
Know Where It Is
Every coach should be able to name the closest AED and the fastest route to it without stopping to think.
Know Who Does What
Who calls 911, who runs for the AED, who meets the squad at the gate, who moves the athletes back. Assigned in advance, not sorted out in the moment.
Know the Access Problem
The slowest part of most responses is EMS finding the right field or a locked gate. Solve that on a quiet afternoon instead of a bad one.
Practice It, Do Not File It
We can build the walkthrough into your training day so the rehearsal and the certification happen the same afternoon.
How It Works
Four Steps. Built Around Your Season.
Tell us your window and we will work inside it. Preseason is our busiest stretch, so earlier is better.
1
Tell Us Your Roster
How many coaches, trainers, and volunteers, which sports, and what age groups your program covers.
2
We Work Around the Season
A preseason coaches meeting, a weeknight in the offseason, or a Saturday before tryouts. You pick the window.
3
We Come to You
Instructor, manikins, and AED trainers arrive at your gym, field house, or club. You provide the room.
4
You Get Documentation
Digital certification cards plus a roster with names and dates for your athletic department or league file.
Questions We Get
What Athletic Directors and Club Owners Ask
Does this satisfy our state’s coach training requirement?
Many state laws require districts to provide CPR and AED training to coaches, athletic trainers, and anyone supervising interscholastic athletics. We deliver that training and give you the documentation. Your district counsel or state athletic association should confirm how the rule reads where you operate.
Is this the same as our state’s sudden cardiac arrest awareness training?
No. Those laws are education and acknowledgment requirements about the warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. This is hands-on certification in responding to one. Most programs need both.
Can you train volunteer coaches and team parents?
Yes. Anyone who is ever the adult in charge at a practice belongs in the room, paid or not.
Can you come during preseason?
That is our busiest window for athletics, so book early and we will hold a date for you.
What do we need to provide?
A room or a gym with open floor space. We bring the manikins and the AED trainers.
How long does certification last?
Two years is the standard cycle for CPR and First Aid. We reach out before your coaching staff falls out of date.
Book Your Session
Get Your Staff Certified Before the Season Opens.
Tell us how many coaches you need trained and when your season starts. We will come back with dates and a flat quote.
