How do you evaluate your coaches and what is your approach when you find them struggling on the field or with their relationship with the athletes?

WE have a set evaluation form for our head varsity coaches, who, in turn, are asked to evaluate their assistant coaches, junior varsity coaches, intermediate coaches, and so on.

The assistant athletic directors and myself attend as many games and practices as we can to see how well the coach teaches and leads. We also want to learn how they relate to the parents, the students, and the faculty.

Our evaluation form has specific areas for personal and professional relationships, coaching performances, and related responsibilities. This enables us to make our overall rating of the coach. We do this at the end of every season.

We go over the evaluations carefully. If we have a problem with anything on the evaluation sheet, my assistants and I will bring in the coach and go over the problem with him or her.

We want to ascertain who is doing a satisfactory job, who is doing a great job, and who simply isn't doing the job. We discuss everything with the coaches and let them know just what we think.

If a head coach disagrees with our evaluation of an assistant, the head coach is given the fight to sell us on the assistant's capability - get us to change our mind.

We know that our coaches have a lot of responsibilities and we want to make sure they know that they will be expected to carry out our policies and accept our criticism.