Team Operations:

Booster Liaison – Provides team representation to Golden Panther Booster Club and the Athletic Department. Prepares a season budget in conjunction with the coaches. Ensures spending is in line with budgets. Manages team operations and ensures performance of all committees.

Treasurer – Maintains team checkbook and prepares monthly accounting statements. Submits invoices to AD for various expenses. Maintains a spreadsheet of actual and budgeted expenses and revenues.

Fund Raising – organizes and manages fund raising activities for the team. This includes the annual Fund-run, the GPBC fund raiser, the Goal-A-Thon and the Baggataway team meal sponsorships.

Transportation Scheduler – Busses are planned and contracted for at the beginning of the season based on JV and Varsity away game schedules. School buses are provided through the AD’s office and charter coaches through an approved vendor. Busses are confirmed with providers each week.

Volunteer Liaison – Collects volunteer hours every month for submittal to the school. The total of the lacrosse volunteer hours as well as all other volunteer hours are applied to Nease’s school rating (i.e., Nease is an “A” rated school).

JV Team Mom (or Dad) - Collects and maintains JV player paperwork in team binder. Helps dispense and reclaim team equipment and uniforms. Procures sandwiches and drinks for away games as needed (PBJ for return trip!). Also procures Gatorade for halftime (home and away games) and post game drinks for away games. Typically, sandwiches are ordered the day before and picked up as early as 1:00 the next day for hand-out to the team before the bus leaves. For this reason your time must be flexible. Travel is not required to away games. Because drinks are cheaper in quantity and require coolers and ice, the pre-game, halftime and post-game drinks have been consolidated under the team mom function. Like being a real mom or dad, this is a job for more than one person but it’s highly rewarding!

Varsity Team Mom (or Dad) – Same function as the JV team mom but for the varsity.

Communications:

Web Master – The team website is a primary means of communication to parents and supporters. It is maintained both during the season as well as in the off-season. Must have computer and enjoy working at it.  Able to check e-mail daily (sometimes more) for last minute updates to post.  No HTML experience necessary (if you know how to use Word, you can use this program).  Collect information from coach, booster liaison, team writers, photographer and anyone else that needs something posted.  Cut-and-paste information into an easy to read format.  Edit for accuracy.  This person also maintains the team’s subscription database. Volunteer hours vary - 2 hours a day at beginning of season to less than 2 hours per week at end of season. Fun job to be able to work from home.

Program – Solicits program sponsors and performs graphic design and production. Works with photography committee to obtain player pictures. The program has been a very good source of revenue and is important to the team image.

Newsletter – A weekly email based newsletter is prepared and distributed during the season. In the off-season newsletters are also prepared as needed. Information is gathered from booster liaison, coaches, and other committees for publishing to subscribers. Template formats exist for the newsletter making it mostly a task of content generation.

Media Liaison  – Promotes the team in the public print media (Recorder, Leader, etc.) as well as through the various school news organizations (Principles Newsletter, PTO newsletter, video news productions, etc.). This will include general interest write-ups as well as game based recaps that are solicited from the team writers and submitted to the news organizations based on their required news cycles. Scores are consistently phoned in to mewspapers. A list of media contact information currently exists.

Writers – Writes JV and Varsity game recaps based on game stats. Provide recaps to “Media Liaison” for dissemination as well as to web master.

Correspondence – Work with Seniors and Team Captains to write thank you notes to sponsors, school administration, booster club members or when requested by Committee Chairs. Team stationary is used.

Game Day Operations:

Announcers – JV and Varsity game announcers. Announce the exciting home game action.

Field Coordinator – responsible for set-up and tear-down of home games (at Nease, Landrum or Davis park). Before the first home game of the afternoon (JV or Varsity) the flag is raised, banners are displayed, field markers positioned, holes filled, game balls positioned on end-lines, horn and timers are on scorers table. Following the last game of the evening the flag is lowered, markers and balls retrieved, as well as scorer equipment. Game lights are turned on and off as required. Bench areas are generally cleaned if necessary. A golf cart is available to help.

Clock/Scoreboard – Runs the clock/scoreboard unit during the game. Required for varsity and JV home games (also games at Landrum and Davis Park ). Some training is involved as to how to operate the unit and the rules for when the clock should be started and stopped. The chair ensures there are people available for each game, which may include himself. It’s a fun job and you get to hang with the announcers who are fun guys.

Team Managers – The goal this year is to have team managers solicited from the Nease student body through the AD’s office. Managers will be responsible for providing ice water for home games, away games, practice and will dispense half-time drinks. They will also maintain and dispense supplies from the manager’s bag (eg. lots of tape). At least one varsity manager should have a car for transportation to practices at Landrum. The chair will likely help in the interview process and will ensure that the managers have what they need (coolers, water bottles, tape, etc.) and are attendant. The chair is not required to be at away games.

Concessions – Concessions is run as a small restaurant business with the goal of providing great food while raising money for the team. Food is provided for JV and Varsity home games. Concessions also manages all visiting team post-game meals as required whether it be pizza or a cookout (i.e., the Bagattaway meals). The chair-person organizes concessions and places orders to food vendors. The 1^st captain trains the other captains on how to run the concessions stand and do inventory. The accountant maintains a ledger of costs, revenues and does inventory accounting. The accountant counts end-of-day cash and maintains a working bank for the next game. There are three rotating captains so a captain should not have to work more than once a week. The captain’s responsibility is to prep the stand (1 hour before game), open the stand, show the scheduled volunteers what they need to do (food prep, sales, clean-up), and to close the stand.

Apparel – The chair-person orders and maintains inventories of lacrosse specific apparel for sale at games. The JV and Varsity assistants help gather paperwork from respective teams for any custom orders. They also do table setup and tear-down for each home game. A volunteer will be scheduled by the “Volunteer Scheduler” to work each game at the apparel table. This is an important revenue area for the team that needs consistent staffing.

Volunteer scheduler – Schedules JV and Varsity parents for work in concessions, the ticket gate, and the apparel table. Makes reminder calls the day before each home game.

Stats – Keeps game statistics (shots, goals, game-balls, forced turnovers, rides, clears, etc,) for varsity and JV home and away games. Scoring the varsity games requires the head score keeper and two assistants. During each home game one of the assistants must also keep the penalty time. If the head scorer is not available to do a game then he or she ensures that one of the assistants fills in as head scorer.

Photography – Provides photography for both home and away JV and Varsity games. The photographs are uploaded to website albums that are linked to the team website. The photos are also selected for use on the website and in the team program (following year). Family members across the country access these photos. The chair person tries to ensure that someone covers each game.

Special Events:

Sr. Appreciation Day - if you want a committee that you have months to work on and then most of the job is over in 1 hour this is the committee for you! Most of the work is done beforehand making signs, and alerting senior players and their parents! You can make the sign making a party or get it done on your own with no problems. You need a few helpers the night of the ceremony and one follow up job for the banquet and you are home free.

Awards Banquet - Work with volunteers to organize end of the year party including location, food, invitations & RSVPs.  Also works with other volunteers to ensure that awards, senior gifts, and following year volunteer signups are covered.