Head Girls Basketball Coach, St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Title: Head Girls Basketball Coach
Department: Athletics
Reports to: Athletics Director
Dates: November 2024
Times: After School, Weekends, Evenings

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Coaches have a unique position in the school community and have an opportunity to provide leadership for all school personnel by their actions while participating in the athletic program. It is important that this unique position for leadership be utilized in a responsible manner.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively coach sporting event at all practices and meets.


• Work with other coaches.


• Show respect for the opponent at all times. When an opponent visits your school, they should be treated as a guest, greeted cordially on arriving, given good accommodations, and accorded the tolerance, honesty, and generosity all human beings deserve. When visiting another school, we should be cordial and appreciative of our host. Good sportsmanship is the Golden Rule.


• Show respect for the officials. The officials should be recognized as impartial arbitrators who are trained to do their job and who can be expected to do it to the best of their ability. Good sportsmanship implies the willingness to accept and abide by the decisions of the officials.


• Know, understand, and appreciate the rules of the contest. A familiarity with the current rules of the game and the recognition of their necessity for a fair contest is essential. Good sportsmanship suggests the importance of conforming to the spirit as well as the letter of the rules.


• Maintain self-control at all times. A prerequisite of good sportsmanship requires one to understand his/her own bias or prejudice and the ability to prevent the desire to win from overcoming rational behavior. A proper perspective must be maintained if the potential educational values of athletic competition are to be realized. Good sportsmanship is concerned with the behavior of all involved in the game.


• Recognized and appreciate skill in performance regardless of affiliation. Applause for the opponent's good performance is demonstration of generosity and goodwill. The ability to recognize quality in performance and the willingness to acknowledge it without regard to team membership is one of the most commendable gestures of good sportsmanship.


• Treat your opponent with respect. Make a special effort to be courteous and respectful even when you feel your team has not been treated fairly.


• Be a humble winner and a proud, respectful loser.


• Conduct yourself in a manner of controlled intensity.


• Use only positive verbal interchange with any person from the opposing team or school.


• A handshake or pat on the back is the only physical contact acceptable outside of the normal contact allowed in each sport.


• Respond to officials' decisions in a controlled manner and with a spirit of good sportsmanship.


• Use only positive actions and words towards officials.


• Use principles of sportsmanship and fair play regardless of the situation or outcome of the contest.


• Make certain buildings and property are in good condition when you finish using them.


• Respect the opponent's school and locker room areas; also respect any personal property in area.


• Pick up any litter from the area and leave area used cleaner than you found it.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; talk; and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.