Coach Recruitment: Strategies & Tips
Many LGR Fellows said that they are looking for suggestions and strategies for coach recruitment. What have you tried that’s worked? Or not worked? How have you gotten the coaches that you have?
posted by Eric Neutuch @ 7:31 AM
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I'm Sam Lacher, and I was the director of the New Rochelle site in the summer of 2004, and coached there the summer before that.
I have two suggestions for coach recruitment: first, ask committed coaches if they have friends or siblings who might be interested in coaching also. It'll be a lot more fun for the coaches if they are coaching with their friends, and it will be a lot easier for you to recruit if you can say that so-and-so person recommended you contact them, etc. Contacting former coaches and asking about their younger siblings and friends is also a good strategy.
The other thing that works well is to talk to teachers or administrators at the high schools where you are working: your site contact can probably put you in touch with honors or AP teachers who can recommend recent graduates that might be good coaches. When you call the potential coaches, it is sometimes useful to say Mr./Mrs. AP US History teacher says you'll be great, or highly recommended you, or whatever you need to say to make them sound desirable and capable.
Just remember that sometimes when people say no it is not because they are not interested--in the summer of 2002 I got a phone call from the NR director but I didn't think I would be a good enough coach/wasn't sure I'd actually be helping the students, so I turned her down. If she had just spent a few minutes explaining to me that it didn't matter what my own scores were and that I could help students on the lower scoring end, I would have been a lot less intimidated and a lot more willing to jump on board the first time around.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any specific questions, especially you two New Rochelle directors--I actually went to NRHS so I can recommend teachers for you to talk to about finding coaches if that'd be helpful. The LGR office in NYC has all my info!
Good luck!!!
--Sent by Eric on behalf of Samantha Lacher, New Rochelle LGR Site Director Summer 2005
Hey guys,
A good thing that i have come across when it concerns coach recruitment is that Facebook works well. Me and Jocelyn thought it would be very smart of us to go to groups and find the high school that we will be located at for LGR. So far, i have messaged every one that was apart of a William Penn High School group and i have actually received one person that was very interested in LGR. I just hope that this will work! ;-)
I hope that this helps you all with the process of finding coaches.
Toni
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