2026-2027 - Girl's Water Polo - Freshmen Head Coach
About The Position
The Freshmen Head Coach leads the girls’ water polo team for the 2026–2027 school year. The coach teaches sport skills and techniques, promotes student-athlete development and sportsmanship, and manages team practices, games, schedules, communications, and applicable school and athletic-association rules. Coaches must maintain required certifications and clearances and meet district coaching responsibilities. Employment is contingent on successful post-offer background check, fingerprinting, physical examination including tuberculosis screening, drug and alcohol screening, and an Oath of Allegiance. The application is open until filled. The coaching stipend is paid according to the applicable seasonal schedule: fall, October–December; winter, January–March; or spring, April–June, with a CIF bonus if applicable.
Requirements
- Prior experience in the sport is required.
- Demonstrated knowledge of fundamental skills and techniques and advanced techniques applicable to the sport.
- Ability to teach, enforce, advocate for, and model appropriate behavior, character development, sportsmanship, and educational values for student-athletes.
- Ability to follow the NFHS Coaches Code of Conduct and CIF Coaches Code of Conduct.
- For water polo, swimming, and diving: current Lifeguarding Certification with Deep Water Training, and CPR/First Aid/AED certification.
- Successful completion of post-offer background check, fingerprinting, physical examination including tuberculosis screening, drug and alcohol screening, and an Oath of Allegiance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with youth is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Prioritize academics and monitor student-athletes’ academic performance.
- Develop team rules and expectations and communicate them to the team and parents.
- Provide practice, tournament, and game schedules, and communicate schedule changes in a timely manner.
- Arrive on time and prepared for practices and games.
- Maintain current CPR/First Aid certificates and TB clearance.
- Encourage all student-athletes to do their best and apply school and team rules equally.
- Model professionalism and create a positive team environment.
- Communicate with individual student-athletes about their team roles.
- Clearly communicate NFHS, CIF, SDUHSD, conference, and team rules to student-athletes and parents.
- Return parent phone calls and emails in a timely manner.
- Notify parents promptly about student-athlete injuries when an athletic trainer is absent.
- Explain the vacation and absence policy.
- Allow student-athletes time away from practice to make up tests missed due to athletic competition or attend tutoring.
- Off-campus walk-on coaches must turn in their keys to receive payment.
- Obtain Athletic Director permission before using district facilities out of season.
- Maintain CIF HOME and MAX PREP results and statistics.
- Input the schedule into Arbiter if required by the sport assignor.
- Adhere to the sport’s CIF summer dead period.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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