St. Anthony Sports Boosters Basketball

The forms below are required to be completed if you want to coach basketball.  

This past legislative session, a bill was passed and signed into law regarding concussions and youth athletes.  Minnesota has joined a growing number of states that have passed laws on providing concussion information, training and procedures to be followed for youth athletes to return to play.  The law is effective as of September 1st, 2011.

The Minnesota legislation requires any municipality, business, school district or nonprofit organization that organizes a youth athletic activity and charges a fee to follow the statute’s requirements.  
 
The BYBA would like to point out several things:

• The statute applies to all practices and games.
• Even though the statute does not officially take effect until September 1, the online training is available now.  The BYBA requires that coaches take the online video training session and test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Federation of State High Schools at www.nfhslearn.com. The course requires registration, but registeration is free. You must print out the course completion certificate as proof of completion of the training.
• This statute applies to all clubs in Minnesota.  As noted in the policy, each club will have to adopt its own policy.
• Any Extraterritorial coach or player who plays in any game or tournament in Minnesota is also affected.  Coaches will have to take the training and both coaches and players have to follow the removal/return to play requirements anytime they are in Minnesota.
• This affects all sports, not just basketball.

Simplify your player rotations with the Rotation Calculator. Use this spreadsheet to set your player rotation for each game. Once you know how many players will be at the game, enter their names into the Players column on the right-hand side (column S). If you have 9 players, use the "Nine Players" section of cells, and so on down the sheet, depending on how many players you will have. The player rotations will be computed automatically. There are tables to compute rotations for up to 12 players. You need to click Yes to accept the macros built into the spreadsheet in order for it to work properly. Column T keeps count of the time slots each player is in the game.

In addition to the two forms above, each coach must submit a criminal background check annually (coaching in other sports that also perform background checks does not exempt a coach from a background check from the BYBA propgram). A link to the secure on-line vendor that the BYBA utilizes will be sent to each selected Head Coach and Assistant(s) Coach(es).     

Procedure/Policy Change for 2011-2012 Basketball Season:

Effective January 2011, coaches from the previous winter basketball season will remain the named head coach of the team for the ensuing season(s), unless informed otherwise. All prospective coaches are encouraged to apply for the position they are intrested in. In the event that a candidate or candidates apply for a coaching position that is currently filled, both the applicant(s) and incumbent coach will be asked to participate in a interview process, after which the most qualified individual will be  selected. Please review the attached coach selection process document carefully.  

Coaches of record must still submit to a criminal background check, sign the coaches conduct pledge but are no longer required to submit a coaching application annually.