Getting your team all the information they will need for the play season is a necessary burden best completed as soon as you have your team roster.  Create a single schedule that you can distribute to all your players:

• Coach(es): set the practice dates and locations.
• Team Manager: fill in game/practice location and time details and distributeto all player's parents (done by the Coach[es] if no Team Manager is assigned to the team.
• For 6U and 8U: Practices and Games take place on the same days and locations.
  • 6U Practice and Game Schedule
  • 8U Practice and Game Schedule
• 10U & older: practices are set by the the Coach(es) and are separate from the games.
  • 10U & older game Schedules
  • Ideas on where and when to schedule your practices

Here's a generic template to get you going:

Once you have the schedules set up and sent out to players, set up a meeting to check in with your player's parents and guardians.

• A Zoom meeting + e-mail provides a venue for most parent's questions and gives them a means to get a hold of you if they have more.
• Have them sign up snack duty on game days (coordinated by the Team Manager).
• Send out the completed schedule with the snack schedule filled in to all your player's families.