SOUTH BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
&
F. H. TUTTLE MIDDLE
SCHOOL
ATHLETIC HANDBOOK
Patrick Burke Michael
O'Day
Principal - S.B.H.S. Director
of Student Activities
Joseph O’Brien
Principal - F.H.T.M.S.
Revised August 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PURPOSE................................................................................................................................... 4
PHILOSOPHY.............................................................................................................................. 5
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES...................................................................................................... 5
COACHES/ADMINISTRATION RELATIONSHIPS................................................................. 5
COACHES LEGAL DUTIES ..................................................................................................... 6
COACHES RESPONSIBILITY TO PARENTS......................................................................... 9
COACHES RESPONSIBILITY TO SCHOOL........................................................................... 9
COACHES RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMUNITY........................................................... 9
COACHES A.S.E.P. REQUIREMENTS................................................................................... 9
STUDENT WELFARE GUIDELINES..................................................................................... 10
SAFETY AND WELFARE OF PARTICIPANTS.................................................................... 10
GENERAL COACHING INSTRUCTIONS.............................................................................. 13
SBHS ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES.............................................................................................
14
FHTMS ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES..........................................................................................
15
TRAVEL......................................................................................................................................
15
ADDITIONAL FHTMS EXPECTATIONS................................................................................
16
HAZING.......................................................................................................................................
17
TRANSFER FROM ACTIVITY TO ACTIVITY..........................................................................
17
TWO SPORT POLICY...............................................................................................................
18
AWARDS....................................................................................................................................
18
MAJOR SPORTS AWARDS....................................................................................................
18
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE FOR ATHLETES..........................................................................
21
RECRUITMENT OF STUDENTS.............................................................................................
21
POSTPONEMENT OF GAMES...............................................................................................
21
PRESS COVERAGE................................................................................................................
21
REBEL BOOSTER CLUB........................................................................................................
22
INJURIES....................................................................................................................................
22
EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN.................................................................................................
23
CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINER............................................................................................
23
ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT...........................................................................................................
24
SEASON SUMMARY................................................................................................................
26
COACHES CHECKLIST..........................................................................................................
26
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT TRAINING RULES......................................................................
29
FORMS:
REBEL ROSTER.......................................................................................................................
32
STANDARD STUDENT ACCIDENT FORM..........................................................................
33
ATHLETICS REQUEST FOR MATERIALS............................................................................
34
ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT INVENTORY....................................................................................
35
SPORTS RESULTS..................................................................................................................
36
ATHLETIC AWARDS SHEET..................................................................................................
37
ATHLETIC AWARDS - TROPHIES.........................................................................................
38
SELF EVALUATION REPORT................................................................................................
39
PURPOSE
This handbook is intended to
familiarize all coaches, students and parents with the purposes, goals and
objectives of the South Burlington High/Middle School athletic program and to
alert each coach to the responsibilities they have as an integral part of the
athletic staff.
CODE OF ETHICS OF THE
AS A PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR I WILL:
- Exemplify the highest moral character, behavior and
leadership.
- Respect the integrity and personality of the individual
athlete.
- Abide by the rules of the game both in letter and in spirit.
- Demonstrate a mastery of, and continuing interest in coaching
through professional improvement.
- Encourage a respect for all athletes and their values.
- Display modesty in victory and graciousness in defeat.
- Promote ethical relationships among coaches.
- Fulfill responsibilities to provide health services and an
environment free of safety hazards.
- Encourage the highest standards of conduct and scholastic
achievement among all athletes.
- Seek to instill good health habits including the
establishment of sound training rules.
- Strive to develop in each athlete the qualities of
leadership, initiative, and good judgment.
As a member of the South Burlington
Athletic Department, I will uphold these values and strive to meet these
objectives.
_______________________________________ ________________
Coach's Signature Date
Please sign and return to the Director
of Student Activities
Fall Coaches date due: September
1st
Winter Coaches date due: December
1st
Spring Coaches date due: April 1st
PHILOSOPHY
The athletic experience is a very intense educational
situation. The coach should utilize this
situation to instill in the athletes the values that will help them enter
society as well-adjusted, useful, emotionally and morally mature
individuals. To achieve these values, a
coach must treat all individuals equally while simultaneously realizing the
potential and limitations of each individual.
The personal example of everyone connected with the program
will do much towards attaining these high ideals. Coaches should display the values they are
striving to instill, for to teach these values, one must have them.
GOALS
AND OBJECTIVES
Ø
The
development of student abilities through healthy competition.
Ø
To bring about
the realization in our students that competition is a privilege that carries
definite responsibilities.
Ø
To develop an
interest in sports that will carry over into adult life.
Ø
To represent
Ø
To develop a
healthy attitude towards opponents, realizing that they deserve our most
sincere effort to emerge victorious while simultaneously understanding that
their purpose is to defeat us in a healthy, sporting encounter.
Ø
To allow every
individual the maximum opportunity to participate in an activity while
recognizing that sports, like life, is a competitive situation in which some
will excel, some will succeed, some will fail, and all will benefit merely by
being participants.
COACHES/ADMINISTRATION
RELATIONSHIPS:
All athletic
coaches are directly responsible to the Director of Student Activities in
carrying out their co-curricular duties.
All co-curricular positions (coaches, advisors, etc.) are
specific to the assignment and are for one-year only. No continual employment
rights to any assigned co-curricular position beyond the annual assignment are
implied or should be assumed. The
Director of Student Activities is under the supervision of the high school and
middle school principals.
The Director will initiate and carry out an evaluation of head
coach's performances closely following the completion of the sports’ season on
a rotating basis. The Director should be
considered to be constantly accessible to every coach should situations arise
during a season which require discussion.
It is expected that all discussion may be entirely open and free with
the overall goal of the program always in perspective. If at any time a coach does not feel
satisfied at the department level, they should feel free to seek redress at the
next administrative level, i.e. middle school or high school principal.
Athletic policies are generally determined at the department
level. Once established and
approved--every coach is expected to enforce departmental policy in a positive
manner, whether in complete agreement or not.
14 LEGAL DUTIES OF A COACH
DUTY TO PLAN –
This is an ongoing process that continually focuses on
analyses and to develop strategies that prevent or reduce injury. Items to consider:
-
Coaching Competence
– keep up to date
-
Medical
Screening
-
Responsive
Strategies that prevent or reduce injuries
-
Appropriate
Activities that consider age, maturity and environmental conditions
-
Facility and
Equipment evaluation and improvement
-
Injury
Response
-
Safe Storage
of equipment
-
Warnings to
athletes and parents
-
Insurance of
athletes
-
Keep Written
Plans of practices, policies, etc.
DUTY TO SUPERVISE –
A coach must be physically present, provide competent instruction,
structure practices that are appropriate for the age and maturity of players,
prevent foreseeable injuries and respond to injury or trauma in an approved
manner. Things to keep in mind:
-
Lock all doors
to unsupervised areas
-
Control
reckless player behaviors – set high standards
-
Evaluate the
condition, safe usage, maintenance and up keep of equipment and facilities
-
Set high
standards of conduct in locker room area, practices and games, etc.
DUTY TO ASSESS ATHELTES READINESS FOR PRACTICE AND COMPETITION
–
Coaches are required to assess the health and physical
maturational readiness skills and physical condition of athletes. Athletes are required to have a Sport
Physical on file with the Athletic Trainer before they can try out for a
sport. Other areas of importance:
-
Athletic
Physical Exam every two years
-
Proper
conditioning of athletes
-
Athletes who
require the care of a physician should have a physician’s release before they
return to practice
-
Mismatch of
athletes of different skills
14 LEGAL DUTIES OF A COACH - continued
DUTY TO MAINTAIN SAFE PLAYING CONDITIONS –
Remember that coaches are considered trained professionals
who possess a higher level of knowledge and skill that permits them to identify
foreseeable causes of injury inherent in defective equipment or hazardous
environments. Areas of concern:
-
Improve unsafe
environments
-
Repair or
remove unsafe equipment
-
Weather
conditions: lightening, snow day, ice day,
frost warnings, high humidity, frostbite, etc.
DUTY TO PROVIDE EQUIPMENT –
Coaches must ensure athletes are properly equipped with
clean, durable and safe equipment. We
must assure that the equipment is properly fitted and properly worn. Selection of equipment must also consider age
and maturity of athletes. Remember to keep up with the NOCSAE approved
equipment. Maintain your equipment with a regular reconditioning schedule.
DUTY TO INSTRUCT PROPERLY –
Athletic practices must be characterized by instruction that
accounts for a logical sequence of fundamentals that lead to an enhanced
progression of player knowledge, skill and capability. Instruction must move from the simple to the
complex and unknown to known.
Instruction must demonstrate appropriate and safe technique and must
include warnings about unsafe techniques and prohibited practices. It is vital
that you are able to identify and avoid dangerous practices or conditions.
Other helpful suggestions:
-
Annual coaches
in-service meetings
-
Encourage
coaches to join professional associations
-
Encourage
coaches to attend coaching clinics
DUTY TO MATCH ATHLETES –