Supervises, coordinates and promotes all phases of the interscholastic basketball program. Combines a comprehensive knowledge of the sport of basketball with coaching experience to improve the fundamental skill, team strategy and athletic fitness needed to achieve a degree of individual and team success. This person is directly responsible to the principal and works in cooperation with the faculty manager.
Within the framework of the basketball program, the Head Basketball Coach provides leadership in the ongoing development and improvement of coaching to ensure each student-athlete will achieve a full and productive basketball experience. To accomplish this, the Head Basketball Coach must involve the assistant coach in the planning, development and implementation of programs designed to improve individual and team needs. The Head Basketball Coach will assign an assistant coach based on his/her knowledge and demonstration of skills to teach basketball mechanics required to address the needs of the student-athletes who make-up the team. Such teaching activities include but are not limited to: ball handling skills, dribbling, passing, shooting, (jump shot progression), offensive rebounding, multiple zone defenses, man to man defense and multiple offensive and defensive schemes.