Hopkins Ball Association Letter to Parents Regarding Parent Conduct Towards Coaches

The Hopkins Ball Association board has decided to follow the MS/HS guidelines regarding sports to prepare for expectations at the MS/HS level.

Appropriate concerns to discuss with coaches

1. Concerns regarding your child's mental and physical status.

2. Ways to help your child improve in the activity.

3. Concerns about your child's behavior. It is very difficult to accept your child not playing as much as you may hope.

Issues not appropriate to discuss with coaches

1. Team strategy

2. Play calling

3. Other student-athletes

4. Selection of players

If you have a concern to discuss with a coach:

1. Call to set up an appointment with the coach. Do not address concerns with coaches immediately after an athletic contest or during or after practice. You must wait 24 hours after the contest is completed to schedule any meeting with the coach.

2. If the coach cannot be reached, reach out to a board member: Sara Coleman, Stan Alexander or Kristi Stricker.

3. Please do not attempt to confront a coach before or after a contest or practice. These can be emotional times for both the parent and the coach. Meetings of this nature do not promote resolution.

What a parent can do if a meeting with the coach does not resolve the concern:

1. Call to set up an appointment with the board members to discuss the situation.

We are fortunate enough to have “volunteer” coaches for our summer program & we appreciate everything they do for our league.

If you have complaints about things with the HBA itself, contact a board member We don’t know there is an issue if we aren’t told.

We are looking forward to a fun season and can’t wait for games to get started!