Resources

 

Step 3)  SRP Video - Watch this video. Please re-watch each year.

This is critical to maintain the safety standards of our school. Even sports that primarily use off-campus facilities might occasionally use onsite facilities. Thus, every coach should be familiar with SRP. 

 

Step 4)  Certifications - Please provide your certifications to Ashlie Langlinais when starting as a Meridian Coach or Assistant Coach AND as renewal is needed to keep your certifications current. Coaches can see the dates their certifications expire here.

Each coach and assistant coach must be CPR, First Aid and Concussion certified. When getting started or when renewal is due, you can find the needed resources below. 

 

Step 5)  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Annual Training Confirmation -

Before the start of each season/school year:

Coaches can see the dates they completed this annually here. (DEI Training will be updated before the start of each school year. It is important that all coaches and assistant coaches complete the most current training annually.)

 

 

Your team's roster will be shared with you before the start of your season. If updates are made during the season, you will be notified. Please bookmark your team's roster Google Sheet to keep it handy wherever you are training or competing.

 

Know your athlete's eligibility:

• Physical Eligibility -
  • Please note which students have physical forms that expire during your sport's season. Be sure they are not participating with an expired physical form!
    
    • Remember - COACHES CANNOT ACCEPT OR PROCESS PHYSICAL FORMS.
    • Physical forms can be submitted to [email protected] or dropped off in the middle school or high school office during school hours.
    • Physical Eligibility Status
      • Updated regularly. See the day and time it was last updated at the top.
      • If the student's name is not listed, then the Athletics Department does not have a physical for them.
      • If "pending" is in the place of an expiration date, the physical has missing information or was not cleared.
      • Find a blank physical form here.
• Academic Eligibility - 
  • Find important dates for 2022-2023 Academic Eligibility here.
    • Dates students can LOSE academic eligibility: 10/21/22, 1/10/23, 3/24/23
    • Dates students can REGAIN academic eligibility: 10/21/22, 11/18/22, 1/10/23, 2/10/23, 3/24/23, 4/21/23
  • How to support your students who are academically ineligible or at risk of becoming academically ineligible. Ask these students:
    • Do you have any Missings (missing assignments)? If they do, encourage them to get them submitted. There are no grade penalties for late submissions; however, there is a cut-off for when late work will be accepted (see Late Work Policy). After that time, it counts as a 50. Missing assignments must be turned in while the teacher is still accepting them. Additionally, they must be turned in before the end of the grading period in order to impact the student's academic eligibility.
    • Have you taken advantage of every opportunity to retake summative assessments (major grades like tests and projects)? Meridian students can retake each summative once up to 100, but there is a process and a cut-off. This needs to be done within 2-weeks of the test/project getting returned. Summative assessments must be retaken in while the teacher is still accepting them. Additionally, they must be retaken/completed before the end of the grading period in order to impact the student's academic eligibility.
    • When are the tutorials for the classes you are failing? How frequently are you going? Teachers offer 2 tutorials a week and sometimes they will offer more by appointment.
  • Grade Check Form - You may ask the students on your team to check their grades with their teachers in order to help them take ownership of their academic eligibility. Please distribute this Grade Check Form to all members of your team the second to last week in the grading period. Ask them to return it to you before the end of the week. This will help you support them towards academic success. Please keep the distribution and collection of these forms discrete to avoid embarrassing students.
  • Then, you as the coach, are welcome to email the teachers to ask about what the failing/struggling student needs to be doing to bring their grade up. Teacher’s email addresses are: First initial.last [email protected]. You can find their names in the progress reports/grade reports. Ex: [email protected].
  • Students can practice if they are academically ineligible, but they cannot dress out for competitions, be excused from school for Athletics, or compete while they are academically ineligible.
• Financial Eligibility update as of 10/22/19 - Financial Eligibility will not be checked mid season. It will only be checked for tryout eligibility (or eligibility to start the season.)  This means you will not have to worry about Financial Eligibility. Once they are financially eligible to try out, they will remain financially eligible for the season. The same is NOT true of academic eligibility, and some students will lose physical eligibility mid-season, and that is noted in your roster.

 

 

 

1. Use your roster to create your TeamApp Team and Access Groups. (Common Access Groups are: Coaches and Athletics Department, Parents/Guardians, Athletes.) Add all the student athletes on your team, their Parent/Guardian 1s and Parent/Guardian 2s, your program lead coach (the Varsity coach for your sport) and your assistant coach, Robyn and Ashlie.

2. Add all of your team's competitions and practices as Events. Include location addresses. You would also add team social events as "events" when you have them.

3. Ask your team members and their parents/guardians to join your TeamApp via email. (Using TeamApp is required of all student athletes and at least one parent/guardian.)

4. Use Chat to send instant notifications when there is something time-sensitive to communicate such as cancellations due to weather or the field conditions. Be sure to enable push notifications for each chat so those students and parents/guardians without the mobile app will see your message via email.

 

Email Robyn or Ashlie.