Coaches and Scouts

Coaches and Scouts typically perform the following tasks: • Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions. • Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours. • Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes. • Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results. • Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons. • Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes. • Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues. • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies. • Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests. • Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics. • Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use. • Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport. • Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations. • Contact the parents of players to provide information and answer questions. • Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs. • Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights. • Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events. • Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance. • Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships. • Hire, supervise, and work with extended coaching staff.