Coach’s Corner
Everything you need to know as a Parent Coach
Practices: Practices will be twice a week with our Royals trainers. NOTE – as a coach you are not required to attend practices as the trainers handle all, but please feel free to go if you can and get to know your team and help out when necessary.
Game schedules: Schedule will show up in your gotsport account if you are registered as a coach once league releases a few weeks before season start. You may also navigate your game schedule on www.lijsoccer.com – the league website. Click on banner on their homepage season schedule and you will see a tool for finding division and team. Full schedule will be there – click submit each time you change a field to find your team.
Communicating with team/Roster access:
1. Through the gotsport website, login as you would. Under your team you will find headings with one of them being messages. When you click on this, you will see a drop down with EVENT ROSTER – PLEASE CHOOSE THE ENYSSA/LIJSL OFFICIAL ROSTER AND CARDS 2024/2025. This will show the correct roster. Some of the other headings have inaccurate rosters.
2. You can still use email as you wish
3. For apps the gotsport app is now live for your use. There is no fee now associated for our club. If it is showing a fee, please delete app and redownload on your phone . The app will show schedules automatically as its tied to the gotsport registration website. I do not believe you can email through the app, but you can have a chat function with the team. Please have your families download the app.
4. You may still use teamsnap or other apps as you wish, whatever works for you and your families, but the club will not be able to reimburse for other modes.
During Season: Responsibilities of the coach are as follows: Communicate schedule to your team and a reminder each week of date/time/location. Communicate with opposing coach to confirm game. You can now find this on your gotsport to right of each game on the schedule. You will also confirm with them your jersey color for the week. Maintain that you will have minimum roster to play for each game and confirm attendance from your team each week. Sometimes easier said than done of course but you may borrow from your other teams age groups. Trainers can also help with this as they manage more than one team. You will have a trainer every game – if you do not please communicate to Peter and us unless there was a last minute circumstance of course. Keep the kids positive and psyched!
Game day – You have to print out two (2) copies of your game roster for each game. If you have players helping your team you must add them to the roster before you print it out. You will also be responsible for the referee fee each game. It changes year to year and please check LIJSL website for updated fees. After the season is over you can submit total to the club and you will be 100% reimbursed. Home team enters scores. Our Royals trainers are there to manage the game and subs.
For weather rescheduling, the home team for that week is responsible for coordinating. We do play in the rain but lightning/thunder is in general a cancellation or extreme rain/snow/cold etc. When a game is rescheduled for weather :
1. Contact president@manhassetsoccer.com to assess what open fields are available on other dates. Confirm if works with the opposing team.
2. Email your division coordinator who will contact you at the beginning of season with the president email cc and approval and new game time, date, field.