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Becoming A Volunteer Coach
It's About What's Good For The Kids
YMCA YOUTH SPORTS is a volunteer-run youth sports leagues. Coaches, referees and administrators are volunteers. Parents,
neighbors, relatives and friends lend their time and talents so that each child gets a terrific YMCA experience.
YMCA’s volunteer foundation ensures that it’s all about what’s good for kids. It also makes YMCA very affordable. The volunteers ensure
its “profits” are happy, healthy kids playing a sport they can enjoy for life.
YMCA has developed special training that helps parents who may have little or no sports experience quickly gain the age-appropriate
knowledge and skills they need to be effective coaches and referees. This ensures that each coach:
Abides by the YMCA philosophies
Offers a great YMCA experience
Continues to grow, offering the YMCA opportunity to more children
It only takes a few hours to learn to become an introductory-level coach or referee. But if you’re not able to commit even that much time,
there are many small jobs you can help with. Even a couple of hours each season are an important contribution to your team and to the
YMCA
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3 Hour Per Week
Role: Coach or Asst Coach
Tasks: Practice with the team once or twice a week. Coach the team on game day every Saturday.
1 Hour Per Week
Role: Snack Bar Coordinator
Tasks: Schedule snack bar shifts. This is another great volunteer Role: that you can split with another parent.
4-6 Hours Per Season
Role: Team Parent
Tasks: Assist the coach by making the snack schedule, distributing the uniforms and making phone calls for picture day, schedule changes, rain-outs, etc. You can cut
down that time commitment by working with another parent.
1 Hour Per Week
Role: Goal Maintenance
Tasks: Set up the goals before games and make sure the goals are safe and secure.
4 Hours Per Season
Role: Field Stripers
Tasks: Line the practice and game fields.
4-6 Hours Per Season
Role: Data Entry
Tasks: Assist the Sports Director, with data entry, especially with entering player information during Registration, making the teams, and making sure that everyone that
made a request is granted..
4 Hours Per Season
Role: Concession Stand Worker
Tasks: Serve concession stand customers by selling snacks and miscellaneous items. Notify the Sports Director when items are low.
12 Hours Per Year
Role: Special Events Coordinator
Tasks: Plan special events such as Picture Day and Last Day of the season ceremonies. Find a few friends and split up the tasks for the Special Events Coordinator, and
each of you can take lead on a different event.
4 Hours Per Month
Role: Publicity Coordinator
Tasks: Serve as the Sports Director's liaison to the media and school district. Help with the design of flyers for Registration, Opening Day and other special events.
Distribute flyers to schools, supermarkets, doctor's offices, etc. Send press releases to local newspapers.
6 Hours Per Year
Role: Fundraising Committee Member
Tasks: Assist the Sports Director in planning and implementing the fundraising activities. In selling advertising banners or team sponsorships.
2 Hours Per Week
Role: Newsletter Editor
Tasks: Collect stories and ideas from the coaches. Write additional stories if necessary and layout newsletter. The time commitment can be cut down if you use a
newsletter template (this can be found in Microsoft publisher or newsletter services such as Constant Contact), so whenever it's time for a new newsletter-all you have to
do is drop in the information give it to the Sports Director and he will e-mail all participants.
6 Hours Per Season
Role: Pre and Post Season Field Workers
Tasks: Help prepare the fields for the soccer and football season by assisting with the setup of equipment and field maintenance such as marking the fields. Once the
season ends, help take down equipment.
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Volunteering 101
YMCA runs on volunteer power. YMCA volunteers give each child the precious gift of their time.
YMCA is a family experience. As a YMCA volunteer, a parent gets to participate with their child and teach the values of giving back to the community. Sometimes it's the
whole family with parents, siblings and grandparents all getting in on the act.
Coaching and refereeing may be the most visible volunteer roles, but there are many ways to help a team. Many volunteer roles require small amounts of time, but are
very valuable to the kids. There is a YMCA volunteer opportunity for everyone.
Volunteering should be a fun and fulfilling experience for you. It's a chance to learn something new, or an opportunity to use the skills you already have. Start out by
finding a position or task that interests you. If it's a little more of a time commitment than you can offer, find another parent who can share the responsibility.
If after looking at this list of YMCA volunteer jobs and tasks, you are still too busy to take on a volunteer position but want to help - ask around. Someone always needs
help making copies, dropping off flyers to schools, passing out the uniforms or working in the concession stand for a couple of hours. There is always something you
can offer to help your team or your YMCA.
Here are some roles that we need help with and their estimated time commitment. Check with the Sports Director for how you can best help your YMCA and how much
time it will take.
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