Seems like thatvis boys and girls. We have a head coach for boys and head for girls and each has 7 assistants for a total of 16. That is pretty common in my area.
wow. we have a head boys, head girls and 2 assistants to share. Also have to coach modified runners.
Part of the reason he’s able to manage it well is because of his staff. He has 13 assistant coaches, most of whom specialize in a certain event, so they are able to give a lot of attention to a small group of athletes. He knows what workout they’re doing, and he’s going to check in on them, but he doesn’t have to be the one getting it started.
we have:
1. head coach (who is throws oriented, so he helps there)
2. myself as a distance coach
3. I have 2 volunteer Middle Distance coaches (They essentially help by being another stopwatch operator with the large group)
4. a shotput coach
5. a discus coach
6. Javelin coach
7. hurdles coach
8. pole vault coach
9. jumps coach LJ/TJ/HJ
10. 2 sprints/relays coaches
School size is about 1000 and Track team is around 100 kids and we have 12-13 coaches as well....I didnt think that was an unusual thing.
Meanwhile at my school, I have 40 kids on the team and 1 part time assistant. No other staff in the building has any interest and posting the job online has been unsuccessful. Must be nice to have coaches sprouting from the ground!
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I am in Des Moines Iowa. We have about 250 combined boys and girls which is fairly common for our larger schools. Most schools have about 10 paid coaches and another handful of volunteers.
when I was in highschool, we had almost 2000 kids at our school, and at least 12 coaches. (sprints, 2 hurdles, jumps, high jump, 2 vault, 4 distance, throws) This doesn't seem too crazy to me. Bullis is half that size, but also a private school, in a wealthy area that cares about athletics. The thing is not all of those coaches are there everyday. Of my school's 12 coaches, maybe like 6-8 would be there any given day. Also, coach is pretty liberal with some of those. Most of the distance assistant coaches were just parents who were willing to run around with the freshmen to make sure they didn't get in trouble or lost or anything.
Bullis is a sports school and has been legit for a while. The Allen brothers and Masai Russell were dominant when I was in high school. Their basketball team has a McDonalds all american
Part of the reason he’s able to manage it well is because of his staff. He has 13 assistant coaches, most of whom specialize in a certain event, so they are able to give a lot of attention to a small group of athletes. He knows what workout they’re doing, and he’s going to check in on them, but he doesn’t have to be the one getting it started.
we have:
1. head coach (who is throws oriented, so he helps there)
2. myself as a distance coach
3. I have 2 volunteer Middle Distance coaches (They essentially help by being another stopwatch operator with the large group)
4. a shotput coach
5. a discus coach
6. Javelin coach
7. hurdles coach
8. pole vault coach
9. jumps coach LJ/TJ/HJ
10. 2 sprints/relays coaches
School size is about 1000 and Track team is around 100 kids and we have 12-13 coaches as well....I didnt think that was an unusual thing.
That was one of the things I learned in a feature on coach Joe Lee by Oliver Hinson for Dyestat.
Part of the reason he’s able to manage it well is because of his staff. He has 13 assistant coaches, most of whom specialize in a certain event, so they are able to give a lot of attention to a small group of athletes. He knows what workout they’re doing, and he’s going to check in on them, but he doesn’t have to be the one getting it started.
I also learned "they certainly showcased their depth at the VA Showcase in January, when their sprint medley relay team set a national record of 3:22.50 — without Wilson."
Interesting fact. All paid staff? Idk but I migt have used that amazing bit of info to argue how much better that team cpuld be if they didnt have so many spoons stirring the pot. Would be a full time job just managing that bunch of coaches!!
That was one of the things I learned in a feature on coach Joe Lee by Oliver Hinson for Dyestat.
Part of the reason he’s able to manage it well is because of his staff. He has 13 assistant coaches, most of whom specialize in a certain event, so they are able to give a lot of attention to a small group of athletes. He knows what workout they’re doing, and he’s going to check in on them, but he doesn’t have to be the one getting it started.
I also learned "they certainly showcased their depth at the VA Showcase in January, when their sprint medley relay team set a national record of 3:22.50 — without Wilson."
An eye-catching number, maybe, but that seems less crazy the more I think about it, especially if the team is big. I get to 5 core areas even combining areas of expertise (jumps, various sprints, hurdles) that you could possibly handle separately. (I'm not sure I would count middle/long separately, since the longest race most kids will run on the track is 2 miles.) You could also add more to handle boys' and girls' workouts separately, etc. I also doubt most of these are full-time coaches, most likely they're teachers doing this on the side.
Throws (shot/disc, possibly hammer and javelin if it's contested in their league)
Jumps (high/long/triple)
Sprints (long, short, and hurdles)
Distance (middle/long)
Pole vault
We expanded our high school coaching staff by recruiting retired head coaches from rival schools. Hence our Co-Ed team had 1 Throws coach, 2 Jump coaches (separated high jump from long/triple,) 3 Sprint coaches (100/200, 400, Starts,) 1 Hurdles coach, 2 Distance coaches (middle, long.) Unfortunately, like many high schools in our area, we dropped the pole vault due to its budget crushing expense. Many of our ten coaches had head coaching experience but were promised they only had to coach kids, no more paperwork or booster issues to deal with. One particular recruit stayed on our coaching staff for fifteen years.
That was one of the things I learned in a feature on coach Joe Lee by Oliver Hinson for Dyestat.
Part of the reason he’s able to manage it well is because of his staff. He has 13 assistant coaches, most of whom specialize in a certain event, so they are able to give a lot of attention to a small group of athletes. He knows what workout they’re doing, and he’s going to check in on them, but he doesn’t have to be the one getting it started.
I also learned "they certainly showcased their depth at the VA Showcase in January, when their sprint medley relay team set a national record of 3:22.50 — without Wilson."
You could hire 100 assistant coaches and not produce a 44.20 16 year old at virtually every high school on earth. I get it, the school has a serious track program, but the thread title strikes me as funny.
Funny if it wasn’t some 60s never was obsess posting abt a kid in high school lol
Bullis sadly is like to many other schools with a super super star. Union Catholic when McLaughlin was a Sr and Cheserek sr year at St Benedicts all of a sudden everyone wanted to be an assistant and claim they have some hand in the success.