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One of the tasks of the NGS Travel Committee is to choose coaches for the teams that play in the BAYS regional travel program. Fortunately, there are a large number of parents and others who wish to coach our girls’ teams. Unfortunately, there are usually insufficient teams to give every interested adult a chance to be a coach. The Travel Committee has developed an application and selection process to choose among those interested.
Each year, the Travel Committee sends a mailing to all NGS families in which it solicits expressions of interest and application forms from potential coaches. The Travel Committee then votes from among the applicants to assign people to the teams at the various age levels and divisions of play. The Travel Committee wishes to offer the NGS community and potential coaches a sense of the criteria by which applications will be reviewed. This document outlines those criteria.
The Travel Committee recognizes that the criteria listed below are somewhat subjective. As a general statement, the Travel Committee believes that prospective coaches should be judged on good character, ability to motivate the girls and make soccer fun, licensing and other training, teaching ability, experience, knowledge, demonstrated success in supporting the goals of NGS or other sporting programs with similar values, organizational skills and commitment. We also want to encourage parents and other adults who might be reluctant to participate in the program to do so and thereby improve their own coaching skills. We point out that different members of the Travel Committee may value the various criteria to different degrees. Also, criteria are likely to be weighted differently for different age groups and levels of play. Ultimately, the choice of coaches represents the cumulative judgment of the Travel Committee members, as applied in a democratic process.
Beyond these general points, specific criteria to be evaluated by the Travel Committee are as follows:
In the case of the more competitive travel teams, mainly those playing in Division 1 and 2, there are additional criteria:
Finally, to be chosen as a coach: