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Activities to Focus On

Attend board meetings each month (first Thursday of each month, 2nd Thursday in July)

November

· Plan and reserve skills evaluation site (Vice-Commissioner)

· Prepare Coaches’ Clinic

o        Define age specific goals

o        Work with Training Director to establish clinic objectives (tied to age specific goals)

o        Training Director - get quotes for coaches’ clinics

· Annual board dinner

· Brainstorm fundraising ideas 

December

· Vote on coaches’ clinic and reserve location

· Attend registration

· Recruit managers

 

· Answer questions (practices, games start, season end, etc.)

· Prepare for Indoor Evaluations – how you’d like evaluations to flow

 

January

· Attend FINAL registration

o        Recruit managers, call managers and secure number needed.

o        Answer questions (practices, games start, season end, etc.)

· Determine number of managers needed and how many to recruit

· Choose managers

· Prepare Sample Season Practice Plans

 

February

· Hold managers meeting to cover:

o        How things work for new people.

o        Evaluations scoring and secure help needed to run evaluations.

· Hold evaluations

· Decide draft approach

 

March

· Equipment pick up

· Hold coaches clinics

· Review potential rule changes

· Hold draft

· Go over Sample Season Practice Plans with managers

· Organize LZHS player clinic

 

April

· Schedule practice fields, later schedule game fields

· Advertise Post Season tryout date

· Conduct LZHS player clinic

 

May

· Meet with towns involved in fall ball and lay out the ground work

· Advertise Post Season tryout date

· Organize All-Star game

 

June

· Hold post season evaluations

· Pick up trophies

· Select post-season manager and teams

· Equipment Return

 

July

· Post season games begin

· Bear claw tournament

 

August

· Organize fall ball

· Assist with travel tryouts

 

September

· Recruit new board members

 

October

· Equipment return

· Vote in new board members

 

 

 

· Recruit Vice President