COACH'S CORNER
Club Head Coach - Jens Kraemer
Mike Preston - Staff Coach
NEXT MEETING - COACHES - tba
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Contact Jacqui Beattie 905-668-2009
general@whitbysoccer.com
FORMS FOR COACHES
- Team Staff Contact Form
- Assessment Forms
- Offer to Play
- Parent Declaration
- OSA Player Registration Form Revised Feb 2007
- OSA Coach Registration Form Revised Feb 2007
- OSA Team Administrator Registration Form Revised Feb 2007
- Club Coaching Application
- Playing out (of Durham Region) permit
- Playing in Durham Region permit
- Application to Travel to approved Ontario Tournament
- Application to Host Exhibition Game
- Application to Travel outside Ontario and to Exhibition Games
- Travel Insurance Application
- International Player TransferCertificate
- Coach Code of Conduct
All Star Coaching Staff
All Star teams are considered "travelling teams", and staff are subject to the same scrutiny through screening measures as Competitive Teams. Proof must be provided by the Club to the Durham Region Soccer Association. Please ensure you read and comply with the following:All coaching staff must submit a completed OSA Coach Registration Form (available online), 3 references, and a current Police Check (or receipt to prove application has been made).
Coaches who are NOT currently approved to coach a Competitive Team must provide a Police Check for 2007 and schedule a screening interview through the Club office.
Coaches who are currently approved to coach a Competitive Team must complete and submit to the Club office an OSA Coach Registration Form specifically for the All Star team registration.
All Competitive Team Coaches and Team Staff
Have you brought in your final police check?
BOOK YOUR SCREENING INTERVIEW NOW !!! APPLY FOR YOUR POLICE CHECK IMMEDIATELY TO COVER YOUR 2008 SEASON - DON'T FORGET ANY STAFF TO BE ON YOUR ROSTER FOR INDOOR MUST ALSO BE SCREENED AND REGISTERED.
NEW COACHES must complete required forms below and book an appointment as soon as possible in order to be covered.
RETURNING COACHES please read requirements below.
Year 1: Screening interview, Police Records Check, OSA form, Club Application form, 3 references
Year 2: Evaluation, OSA form,
Year 3: Evaluation, OSA form, Police Records Check (PRC every second year afterwards)
Returning team officials will no longer be required to book a re-screening interview providing they coached in the previous consecutive year. All team staff, please arrange to drop by the office during business hours to leave a copy of your receipt for police check. This will enable the office to process your paperwork for your team. If you have your final police check, you will need to sign a form once it is presented to acknowledge we have not kept a copy and it has been returned to you. This can only be done with an official screening officer. Please send an e-mail to Sandy Arrowsmith at admin@whitbysoccer.com in order to attend at the office to present your final document and sign off on it.
TO BOOK AN INTERVIEW - New coaches and new team staff must have a screening interview (it takes about 5 minutes) - please send e-mail to: admin@whitbysoccer.com providing your availability preferably Monday or Tuesday evening during regular office hours to attend at the Club office with two screening officers.
If you have not completed the above, you will not be registered, placed on a roster, able to apply to go to tournaments, participate in a league, exhibition games, book fields, use gyms, sit on the bench, etc.
NOTE: These are requirements of our governing bodies - not rules initiated by this Club.
ALL competitive, select and all star team staff are now required to maintain an OSA Team Official ID book - books may be obtained at the Club office. Books used by leagues in previous years are no longer valid. This is a requirement of our governing bodies - OSA, DRSA.
Outdoor Recreational Coaches
NO SCREENING INTERVIEW IS REQUIRED
Have you handed in your
1. Police Check or Receipt to prove you have applied for a PC (every 3 years)
2. OSA Coach Application Form (every year)
3. 3 References (every 3 years)
Every year ALL Coaches are required to submit a completed OSA Coach Form prior to being assigned a team. All individuals applying for the first time to coach a recreational team for the outdoor 2007 season must also submit a Criminal Record Check (CRC) to a Club Screening Officer along with 3 references. Your submitted police check will cover you for 3 consecutive years as a coach. As there is a lengthy wait for police checks each year, you may submit a receipt from the Police Department to confirm that you have applied. You will be required to present the actual Police Record Report as soon as it is received. Police Reports are returned to applicant immediately upon presentation.
Bytesize Coaching
The Byte Size Coaching Program is a coaching website built to assist coaches by having a quality curriculum designed to benefit the players and coaches alike, as well as assist coaches with no formal training.
The program is designed for community soccer programs which rely on volunteer parent coaches, most of which are new to coaching and may not have played the game of soccer.
Well over 60% of the children playing soccer in North America are under the age of 12. Paradoxically, over 75% of the coaches in North America coach this age group.
The ideas put forward in the Byte Size Coaching Program cover all fundamental aspects of the game and will give coaches at every level, grassroots or competitive, some good ideas to work with.
It's a great program for the kids and a wonderful tool for our coaches. The Byte-Size Coaching Program offers excellent examples of how practices should be organized for the enjoyment of the players.
Additional Information
Form for submission of references