During the last quarter-century, I’ve seen coaches come and go at each stage of subject hockey.
However often, I’ve run throughout discouraging accounts of coaches being let go from their positions with out a lot in the best way of due course of.
The factor is, many sports activities coaches are employed on an at-will foundation, that means {that a} college board or an administration isn’t required to offer a motive to eliminate a coach.
I’ve seen a lot of profitable coaches, from Marq Mellor to Mollie Reichard to Amanda Jacona, being separated from their groups even after they have gained championships.
Which results in a current story on South Jersey Glory Days that Dana Ott, a three-time state championship-winning coach at Woolwich Kingsway (N.J.), has not been rehired to educate the staff in pursuit of a fourth. In response to the story, that call was made in December.
“I’m heartbroken,” Ott instructed Glory Days in a textual content message. “The ladies, the staff, and district imply the world to me. I would really like nothing greater than to proceed teaching at Kingsway.”
The story goes on to say that Ott’s assistant coach, Jennie Hara abruptly resigned from her place on Oct. 21, previous to the beginning of the NJSAA Match. Hara additionally tendered her resignation from instructing in addition to teaching.
Factor is, although the lecturers’ labor union, the New Jersey Schooling Affiliation, is without doubt one of the strongest lobbying brokers within the state of New Jersey (a lot so, its workplace is the closest to the entrance door of the state capital in Trenton), coaches are likely to have little recourse as soon as a choice is made to terminate.
I’m amazed that, even within the progress of girls’s sports activities within the final 50 years, coaches on the scholastic stage nonetheless teeter on the ledge of a rickety roof.
