With Spring season coming up, you may be wondering what a captain’s duties are. They’re not complicated, but as leader of your team you have a few responsibilities:
Before the game:
- Arrange for enough players to attend your game
- If you’re short players, it is your duty to recruit spares and get them cleared with the opposing captain
- If your opponent is requesting spares, it is your duty to respond in a timely fashion (check your email and phone regularly on game day!)
- Approach the referee and help them record your attendance
During the game:
- Keep your team in line
- Represent your team respectfully to the referee when you have concerns
- Keep your team from directly addressing the referee when they have concerns – they should come to you, and in turn you will speak to the ref at the next stoppage of play
After the game:
- Sign the sheet acknowledging that the attendance and score was recorded properly (this is a new protocol we will be starting in Spring)
- Lead your team in a “three cheers for the other team” then go shake hands/high five your opponents
- If your team has concerns you did not feel the referee addressed adequately, it is the captain’s duty to contact the league on behalf of your team – only captains should be doing this, so we can have a single point of contact. Multiple reports on the same issue from the same team are not helpful.
- Check your email often! There are times when we need to contact teams for logistical and other reasons