Baseball Assistant Coach

Old Saybrook Public Schools•Old Saybrook, CT

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves personally laying down and carrying out strict training rules for their squad, and being responsible for their team’s dress, actions, and behavior in games, practice sessions, trips, and locker rooms. The coach must conduct themselves above criticism at all times and be responsible for taking care of equipment, locker room supervision, and arranging all details on trips while maintaining strict supervision of team members. Cooperation with the Athletic Director is essential for scheduling, hiring officials, and purchasing equipment. The coach must ensure all students have a physical examination, parent’s consent, eligibility clearance, and medical insurance. They will also be responsible for creating a master eligibility sheet, selecting and training student managers, issuing and overseeing the proper care of equipment, and cooperating with the Athletic Director in providing publicity materials. The coach must assume strong leadership, take a personal interest in athletes, provide counseling, and furnish vital information to the press. Exemplifying good sportsmanship and being responsible for locker room and shower room supervision are key. The coach is the last to leave the premises after each practice or game day, ensuring all lights and showers are off, all players have left, and the locker room is securely locked. They must also provide a season report to the Athletic Director and ensure injuries are properly taken care of with a written report. If a practice session is called on a day other than a regular school day, the coach must perform specific janitorial duties and ensure the exercise room and gymnasium are supervised at all times by certified personnel. This is a general listing of duties sufficient to provide an overview of the position and is not meant to be a complete or comprehensive listing of all duties.

Requirements

Valid CT Coaching Certificate #600 or Proof of Application
CPR/First Aid and Concussion Training

Responsibilities

Personally responsible to lay down and carry out strict training rules for their squad.
Personally responsible for their team’s dress, actions and behavior in their games, practice sessions, trips locker rooms, or any occasion where their sport personnel is taking part as a team representing their school.
Conduct themselves so that they will be above criticism at all times.
Personally responsible for taking care of equipment after contests, locker room supervision before and after practice and games, home and away.
Personally responsible for arranging all details on trips and for maintaining strict supervision of team members.
Cooperate fully with the Athletic Director in arranging schedules, hiring of officials, and purchasing equipment.
See that all students out for their sport have: Physical Examination, Parent’s Consent, Eligibility clearance for interscholastic competition, and Medical Insurance.
Make a master eligibility sheet for the athletic director of their complete squad.
Select student managers and train them as to their duties on trips, practice sessions, and games.
Issue equipment to their squad and organize an efficient system for issuing equipment.
Instruct their squad as to proper care of their equipment on the field, in the locker room and on trips.
Collect and inventory equipment at the end of the season.
Cooperate with the Athletic Director in providing publicity materials to the newspapers, radio stations, and other schools.
Provide a system of awarding “letters” concise enough, whereby, no team may feel he/she has been discriminated against.
Assume a strong leadership in directing their assistants.
Take a personal interest in the athletes and their problems; do counseling whenever and wherever necessary.
Contact of furnish all vital information and statistics, schedules, names of personnel, etc., to the press.
Exemplify good sportsmanship by abiding by the rules of both conduct of play and courtesy of human relations.
Be personally responsible for the locker room and shower room supervision during the dressing periods at the beginning and close of activities, varsity, reserve games, practices, especially during school vacations, holidays, and weekends.
Turn off all lights and showers.
Make sure all players have left the locker room.
Make sure locker room is locked when you leave.
Provide the Athletic Director with a season report of the sports season immediately at the close of each sports season.
Be responsible to see that injury is properly taken care of.
Perform janitorial duties if a practice session is called anytime other than a regular school day, including turning off lights and showers, ensuring all players have left the school, and securely locking the locker room and school.
Ensure the exercise room and gymnasium must be supervised at all times by certified personnel.
Be the last to leave the premises after each practice or game day.
Ensure all athletes must be picked up before leaving.