Build The Nest

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Be Authentic // Be Visionary
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Athletic Strategic Plan

2020-2025


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 1. Strengthen Academic Excellence
Build upon existing environment and programming focused on leadership
and intellectual development
Objective 1: Establish a standard for academics within our department that
emphasizes the true balance for a student athlete.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Bi-monthly grade Celebrate academic Teach and implement
checks for athletes to excellence and strategies athletes can
help identify issues and achievement of use to find the perfect
create an intervention student athletes balance between
plan academics and
athletics

2. Achieve Competitive Excellence

Cultivate a culture committed to achieving high expectations on and off
the field
Objective 1: Develop strategies and recruitment packages with the goal to
attract and retain quality coaches.
Strategy A Strategy B
Increase coaching Look into insurance and
stipends across the benefits packages to
board to a minimum aid in recruitment
level comparable
High School - $1,000
Middle School - $800

Objective 2: Establish and assistant stipend pool.

Strategy A
Restructure and reduce
spending to create a
fund for assistant
coaches - $300

Objective 3: Develop coaches and establish expectations and accountability.

Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Set aside $100 per Create a system for Mandatory coaches
coach for mandatory evaluation of coaches meetings every 9 weeks
yearly professional – coachevaluator.com and once during the
development summer

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Objective 4: Student-Athlete Accountability
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Train coaches on the Educate coaches on Generate strategies
Student-Athletic identifying and dealing with the coaches to
Handbook with the real-life hold student-athletes
situations that face our accountable
athletes
Objective 5: Establish an off-season program dedicated to prepping students
physically for competition.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Explore athletic period Delve into weight room Create a conditioning
options options and/or outside plan for our athletes
gym options outside of the weight
room
3. Provide the Most Positive Student-
Athlete Experience Possible
Invest in an environment that promotes comprehensive wellness, personal
development, and holistic support for student-athletes and challenges
them to be the best versions of themselves
Objective 1: Cultivate an environment that promotes and develops a well-rounded
student athlete.
Strategy A Strategy B
Continue to build Construct athlete
policies to reflect development programs
accountability and that aid students with
behavioral taking care of their
expectations bodies both mentally
and physically
Objective 2: Hire, retain, and develop coaches who create positive team cultures
with high expectations.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Train coaches on the Seek qualified Require all coaches to
Inside-Out Coaching candidates that exhibit become “Darkness to
Initiative with a focus of the ability to not only Light” certified
fostering Christ- teach the game but
centered athletes also improve all aspects
of the athlete

4. Athletic Compliance with TSSAA

Implement trainings and strategies to insure all aspects of athletics are
ready for the changes and challenges that will be a part of becoming
TSSAA compliant

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 Objective 1. Start the process of adjusting and developing off-seasons, practices,
and competitions that are TSSAA compliant.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Provide all coaches Athletic director Coaches will attend
with TSSAA rulebooks attends rule meetings TSSAA transition/training
and discussions with meetings provided by
other athletic directors the athletic director

5. Build The Nest

Start the process of designing and raising funds to build athletic facilities
where our athletes prepare and compete at the highest level
Objective 1: Develop a plan with stakeholders for addition a facilities.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Identify the Formation of Booster Create clear roles and
stakeholders Club expectations for the
Booster Club
Objective 2:
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Pinpoint immediate Make corrections and Meet with companies
needs (baseball, changes to and obtain quotes for
softball, weight room) architectural master estimated costs
plan (facilities and designs)
Objective 3: Begin the capital campaign fundraising process.
Strategy A Strategy B Strategy C
Meet with stakeholders Formulate all necessary Implement the “Build
and Booster Club to information and the Nest” capital
produce a “Build the materials needed to campaign by the start
Nest” capital begin the capital of the 2021-22 school
campaign strategy campaign year
plan