2024-25 FACA AD Clinic LTI 704

This course will cover numerous ways to actively recruit, mentor and retain high quality coaches and activity sponsors within your organization. Topics that will be covered include: Best hiring practices for coaches and sponsors, identification of female and minority candidates, faculty vs. non-faculty coaches, challenges with/of parent coaches, strategies to grow coaches, retention strategies. The youth sports industry has changed expectations and realities of being a coach across the United States. This unrealistic expectation of scholarships and the win at all cost emphasis has resulted in the necessity for schools and athletic administrators to develop innovative strategies of recruitment, mentoring and retention of coaches for education-based athletics.