Volunteering with us!

It is YOU, the parents and older siblings of our players, that keep the Home School Soccer League operating each season. The Directors greatly appreciate all your dedication and hard work. We pledge with your help to do all we can to keep Player Fees as low as possible and the behind-the-scenes operations running smoothly.

The cost of coaches continues to be one of our greatest expenses each season. In order to encourage you to step into a coaching role, we present here the responsibilities and rewards that go with those positions. We also provide a means for folks who are not quite ready to coach to get the necessary training and confidence that they need.

We strive for each team to have a Roll-Call/Team Parent:

Roll-Call Parents

Volunteer to assist with the start up of their child's practice. We ask them to be present at their field to take attendance and distributes name tags during the first 15 minutes of each session. If they remain at the field they may also be asked to help escort a child/children to the restroom for younger teams, or assist with a child who needs ice or a rest.

Head Coaches

Take on the responsibility for a particular team, supervising their players, setting up soccer drills and coaching/ref'ing during game play each week. Unless they have prior coaching or a great deal of soccer playing experience, Head Coaches usually will have served as an Assistant Coach in previous seasons. In exchange for volunteering, these coaches are given a gold coach's T-shirt and ALL of the Head Coach's children play for FREE (minus player T-shirt fees).*

Assistant Coaches

Work within a particular team, handling the team's warm up & stretching, and assisting the Head Coach with drills and game play each week. In exchange for assisting, these coaches are also given a gold coach's T-shirt and up to TWO of the coach's children play for FREE (minus player T-shirt fees). Any other children are charged $20 to cover insurance costs.*

*Unless other arrangements are made, coaches must attend a brief Coaches' meeting at noon on the first day of the season in order to pick up their team bags and review our procedures and policies.

Unless arranged otherwise, all teen coaches are expected to volunteer as an Assistant Coach with us for one season, so that we may assess their potential. If selected as a coach for a later season, we may offer the teen the opportunity to step into one of our paid coaching positions. Please note that there are a very limited number of paid positions each season.