Volunteer

Coaches

REQUIREMENTS

• All coaches must submit a valid, current Police Records Check including Vulnerable Sector Screening prior to the beginning of the season
• All coaches must complete Safe Sport Training at Coach.ca. There is no cost for this training and only needs to be completed once.

RESPONSIBILITIES

With the assistance of the division convenor, league officials and other volunteers, expectations of head coaches include the following:

Pre-season and Special Events

• Attend Coaches Day
  • Pick up uniforms and equipment
  • Participate in a short Baseball Fundamentals clinic
  • Evaluate players and draft your team (13U-18U)
• Attend Practice Weeks (on regularly scheduled night)
  • Meet your team
  • Distribute uniforms
  • Run a practice/scrimmage (weather and time permitting)
• Help recruit assistant coaches
  • Depending on how many assistant coaches volunteer in your division, you may need to ask other parents for help
• Attend Opening Day
  • First Games of the season
• Attend Photo Day
  • ​Help organize team for individual and team photos
• Attend Mid-Summer Classic
  • Participate as needed (more information will be available at the start of the season)
• Attend Championship Day
  • Coach your team’s final game and distribute year-end awards
  • Retain undistributed awards and coordinate delivery if any team members are missing
  • Return equipment and keys to league officials at equipment bin immediately following your game

Throughout the Season

• Plan and complete a 30-minute warm-up/practice before each game (6U Coach Pitch & up)
• Set up field for designated home games (except at Barrie Sports Complex)
• Manage playing time and positions that is fair and equitable for all players
• Communicate key information out to your team in a timely manner
• Report issues/problems to division convenor (i.e. unsafe/poor field conditions, missing/broken equipment, player injuries, inappropriate conduct of players or coaches)
• Report any weather-related cancellations to convenor that were not a result of the City of Barrie closing fields (provide park name, field conditions and pictures where possible)

Most importantly, ensure that all players and coaches have a fun and rewarding season!

Organizing practices outside of your scheduled game night is optional, but encouraged. We have insufficient field availability to assign practice time for each team, so teams may need to find their own practice location. If there is extra field time available, convenors and coaches will be advised and it will be available on a first come, first served basis.

We will be offering a half-day clinic for head & assistant coaches prior to the start of the season. Topics would include team/parent communication, practice planning, coaching techniques and effective game management. More information will follow closer to the season.

COACH PARTNER POLICY

Head Coaches will be able to request their preferred assistant coach. This request must be mutual and must be completed no later than March 31.

When completing the VOLUNTEER FORM FOR CONVENORS & COACHES please indicate your preferred assistant coach in the Coach Partner Field. Assistant coaches will make the mutual request for the Head Coach in the same field. Email or phone requests and requests for more than 1 assistant coach will not be honoured.

This policy is designed to help coaches with personal schedules while acknowledging the extra work that goes into being a Head Coach. It is not designed to build powerhouse teams or teams of only friends. We believe a primary component of youth sport is meeting new people (players & parents both) and learning from different coaches.

Barrie Minor Baseball reserves the right to deny requests that attempt to circumvent the spirit of the policy. We will make every effort to accommodate all valid requests however no guarantees will be made.