Every team will have a professional Head Coach (HC) who will be responsible for all aspects of soccer for the team including coaching and training.  The HC will run every team practice, friendly, scrimmage, league game and tournament game.

Volunteer parents are not expected on the field during practices. Volunteer parents should stay on the sideline unless specifically requested by the H to assist on the field. There will be no formal assistant coaches. However, for the younger age groups there should be one volunteer parent on the team side during games. The volunteer’s role will be to assist injured players and act solely as an observer unless asked to do otherwise by the HC.

The HC will be selected prior to tryouts by a selection committee formed by the TEC and based upon input from the previous year Team Manager.

The HC will provide a challenging year-round soccer training program designed to develop players to successfully compete in premier leagues and premier tournaments.

The HC will:

• Exhibit proper conduct;
• Attend the Travel Program’s coaches meetings;
• Conduct a minimum of two formal team training sessions per week between August 15th and November 15th for the fall season and February 15th and June 15th for the spring season;
• During winter months of December through February, conduct a minimum of one, preferably two sessions a week (Indoor League play is included as a session);
• For U-15 and older teams, lead the effort to market their team’s players to college coaches. This will involve working with the Team Manager to prepare and keep current a team and player summary information booklet, contacting college coaches on behalf of interested players, enrolling the team in tournaments and friendly matches that expose the players to college coaches;
• Use their experience to best develop each player by motivating, teaching and constructively criticizing each player’s performance;
• Strive to develop players love for the game by providing an enjoyable experience;
• Provide a written coaching evaluation at the end of the Fall season and the Spring season.  It should be a simple individual evaluation broken down into technical, tactical, physical and psychological components which is given to the parents.