Lead Coach: A skier with the appropriate experience to organize and lead the grade level for which he or she is responsible.
- Attends NENSA and/or Ford Sayre pre-season coach training session
- Attends pre-season meeting with Head Coach and Program Head
- Organizes pre-season meeting with grade level Coaches under his/her supervision
- Acts as communication hub for skier families in age group
- Sends intro email to age-group families before first practice
- Touches base when necessary/regularly with families regarding practices, races, logistics specific to grade level
- Requests formal feedback 2-3 1x/month using Committee generated survey
- For grades 5 and above, interviews skiers pre-season for goal setting/expectations
- Designs groups of skiers based on combination of results from skier interviews and observations during dry land training and facilitates changes in groupings when necessary
- Coordinates the grade level Coaches and assigns them to skier groups
- Creates a written practice plan for each dry land and on-snow practice with appropriate variations for various levels (program will develop common template to use)
- Communicates written practice plans to coaching team, Head Coach and Program Heads by email before practices
- Coordinates attendance at beginning of practices and sign-out at ends of practices
- Coaches one group of skiers each practice (same group? different groups?)
- Attends as many races as possible and supports grade level and all Ford Sayre skiers both before and after races
- Receives a free pass to Oak Hill and a stipend
- Receives team discounts for ski gear at Omer and Bob’s Team Night