To be eligible to take the SCCC Certification Examination, an individual must be a currently practicing, full-time, strength and conditioning coach on the collegiate or professional level, or a student preparing to become a full-time strength and conditioning coach on this level.

Our goal as an association is to identify, educate, serve, and prepare those individuals who want to exclusively be full-time strength and conditioning coaches of collegiate and professional athletic teams. Dual certification in other fields is discouraged in order to protect the integrity and value of the SCCC Certification and the profession of full-time collegiate and professional-level strength and conditioning. The various positions of strength and conditioning coach, sport coach, athletic trainer, physical therapist, teacher/researcher, personal trainer, etc., are each so broad and vast in scope that it is impossible to be effective and competent in more than one of these professions simultaneously. Each of these professions has its own organization and certification, designed specifically to meet its unique needs.

With its certification process, the CSCCa is providing a path, through which only those individuals who want to be full-time strength and conditioning coaches on the collegiate and professional level can pass. We hope to send a message to all institutions that a full-time strength and conditioning coaching position is extremely important and should be provided at every institution with an athletics program.

ATTENTION: CSCCa membership is not required for obtaining SCCC Certification, but CSCCa members do receive discounted rates. Annual membership dues (membership year runs from August 1 - July 31) must be paid by corresponding deadlines in order to receive the member discounted pricing for conference registration. A non-compliance fee will be assessed for individuals who do not pay the membership fee by the corresponding deadline, but who have received discounted pricing for any CSCCa dues and fees.

Please download a free copy of the SCCC Certification Handbookto get detailed information about the SCCC certification exam, eligibility requirements, policies and more.