New Requirements for Ejected Coaches in 2014 -15

At their November 2013 meeting, the Executive Board unanimously approved several new initiatives which are designed to address the ongoing need to recruit, train and retain athletic officials in all sports offered by the Association. One of these initiatives is a requirement for coaches who are ejected from a contest to complete a course provided by the NFHS. The following is the full initiative as stated in the minutes of the meeting:

“Require coaches who are ejected from a contest (at all levels grades 7-12) to complete the NFHS “Teaching and Modeling Behavior” course prior to coaching in their next event. (Next event would be defined as the next regularly scheduled day of competition. An ejected coach could complete a tournament in progress before completing the course requirement.) (Course fee is $20 and can be completed in one hour. The School administrator is responsible to provide KSHSAA with the copy of the coach’s certificate proving completion of the online course. The coach may print this as the final step of the online course.) Recurring ejection(s) result in a requirement to repeat the course.”

The initiative will be implemented at the start of the upcoming 2014-15 school year.