What's the UIL rule in regard to high school coaches coaching a summer team? Can head and/or assistant coaches coach a summer team?
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Yes they can coach summer teams. Just not summer teams that have their players on the team.
www.uil.com
www.uil.com
Baseball, Basketball, Football, S****r, Softball or Volleyball Teams: A 7-12 grade coach shall not provide instruction in a non school camp or clinic or coach a non-school team on which any 7-12 grade students from his/her attendance zone are involved, other than his/her own adopted or birth children.
It is important to read the words closely..."from his/her attendance zone" is VERY important. If a player lives within his/her attendance zone, but attends, say, Jesuit, that coach is still prohibited from coaching that player during the summer or non-school teams. There were instances recently surrounding this and the UIL was very clear on this point, yielding to the potential for recruiting "back' to their local school.
txbball14, Does it begin with 7th graders or 8th?
I thought that it started with 8th graders and up.
I thought that it started with 8th graders and up.
As I understand, if they are eligible for junior high athletics they cannot be coached by a coach in the district. They are not in the 7th grade until they actually attend 7th grade classes. Therefore, a coach can coach them the summer prior to their 7th grade year, but not after that. Of course this should be p[refaced that all questions like this should be asked directly to the UIL as to prevent anyone from violating a rule in a seemingly "gray area."
What if the coach is a girls softball coach, can he then coach a summer baseball team with kids from his school?
quote:Originally posted by mike/mike:
What if the coach is a girls softball coach, can he then coach a summer baseball team with kids from his school?
A coach at the school cannot coach any of his/her players in his/her attendance zone during the summer in grades 7-12. They can host a camp for incoming 9th graders, but that is the extent of it. Therefore, the girls softball coach could not coach a baseball team that has a player in the school's attendance zone.
I don't make the rules, I just follow them.
Hope this helps!