Varsity letters, JV and “C” Team participation, and special awards will be awarded at the end of each sports season. To receive a letter or participation award an athlete must complete the sport season in good standing. Seasonal Athletic Award Ceremonies will be held for this purpose. Attendance at these ceremonies is mandatory if you are to receive your awards.
VARSITY LETTERS
The requirement for earning Varsity Letters is up to each head coach. Each coach should have these requirements in writing and made available for each participant. To earn a Varsity Letter a participant must meet the stated requirements and finish the athletic season in good standings with the program, athletic department, and high school. Any athlete failing to finish the season for any reason (other than injury) will not be granted a Varsity Letter.
JV AND “C” SQUAD
JV and “C” Squad athletes earn a Participation Award for completing the athletic season. Again, to earn this award the athlete must finish the athletic season in good standings with the program, athletic department, and high school. Any athlete failing to finish the season for any reason (other than injury) will not be granted a Participation Award.
SPECIAL AWARDS
The Blaine Booster Club will provide each athletic program with an “Outstanding Athlete” and one other specialty award at the end of the program’s season. (See Appendix I) The school will purchase two (2) awards for programs with 20+ participants or one (1) award for programs with less than 20 participants. Coaches may purchase additional awards at the cost of the program.
AWARD NIGHTS
The purpose of Award Nights is to honor each athlete, in a family setting, with Varsity Letters or Participation Awards, and any program special recognitions and/or awards. The setting up of each program’s Award Night is the responsibility of the program’s head coach. When setting up an Award Night the following guidelines should be met:
- Confirm the date, place and time with the Athletic Director.
- Make sure all awards are ordered so they will be available of the scheduled night.
- Hold the Award Night within 3 weeks of the last game.
TRANSPORTATION
The Blaine High School Athletic Department expects that all athletes will travel as a team to contests in the transportation provided. It is the responsibility of the head coach of each program to meet with the Athletic Director to go over the transportation needed.
GUIDELINES
The transportation guidelines are as follows:
- All transportation requests need to be made through the Athletic Director.
- Athletes are required to travel to and from events in the transportation provided.
- Coaches must supervise athletes.
- Coaches are responsible for the vehicle clean-up.
- All problems need to be referred to the Athletic Director.
RETURN TRIP HOME
All athletes must travel to and from out-of-town athletic contests in transportation provided by the athletic department unless the parents for an exceptional situation make previous arrangements. For this to happen the following must occur:
- Coaches are only allowed to release an athlete to his/her parent/guardian.
- A parent/guardian must physically hand a note to the coach requesting their athlete travel home with them. On the note please have the athlete’s name, the date, and parent/guardian’s name and signature.
- Please wait until all contests are over on that particular night before submitting note to coach.
- Please abide by coaches’ wishes concerning when a JV/”C” Squad player may leave.
SPECIAL REQUESTS
If a parent wishes for their athlete to ride home with another family or sibling, please contact the Athletic Director 24 hours in advance of the game. The Athletic Director is the only person that can give permission to allow this to occur. Coaches are not allowed to let any athlete ride home with someone other than the parent/guardian without notification from the Athletic Director. A permission note signed by the parent/guardian and Athletic Director will be required before a coach can allow this to happen.
If for some reason an athlete cannot travel on the school provided transportation to a game, please contact the Athletic Director at least 24 hours in advance of the event. The Athletic Director must be notified of the arrangements being made to get the athlete to the event. After this is approved by the Athletic Director, please notify the coach at least 24 hours in advance.
EARLY DISMISSAL
For many athletic events students must be dismissed from school before normal dismissal time. Early dismissal from classes for athletic reasons does not release student/athletes from class-work responsibilities. Each athlete must make arrangements for getting assignments, taking missed quizzes or tests, or handing in homework. It is the responsibility of the athlete, not the teachers, to make sure that all make-up work is completed in a timely manner. It is highly suggested that when an athlete knows he/she will miss a class because of early dismissal that he/she contacts the teacher beforehand.
Any time that an early dismissal is required for an athletic competition it is the responsibility of the head coach to notify all high school staff members by either emailing them or put a flyer in all staff member boxes. This should be done a minimum of one (1) day before the date of the early dismissal.
OFF SITE PRACTICES AND GAMES
In some sports such as golf, baseball, soccer, and softball off campus facilities are used. Transportation is an issue that must be organized and planned. Blaine does not have the budget to provide daily transportation for these activities; parental assistance, coaches as drivers, or individual athletes driving may be necessary. Again, parental permission is essential in response to any transportation issues outside of the normal team transports (buses).
OUT-OF-STATE TRAVEL
Within an athletic program’s schedule some teams will have the opportunity to travel out-of-state to participate in a non-league event. The following guidelines must be met before a team is allowed this opportunity:
- Fill out and submit an Out-of-State Travel Request Form with the Athletic Director one month prior to travel date.
- Athletic Director will submit form to School Board for approval.
- Head coach must make all travel arrangements (i.e. hotel/motel, practice facilities, etc.)
SUMMER CAMP SUBURBAN USAGE
Some suggestions for the use of a suburban for the summer camps:
- All requests for summer suburban use must be made no late than the last day of school. This will be on a first com first serve basis.
- Approval will take into consideration availability of transportation staff.
- There will be a maximum of two (2) suburbans per camp.
- Suburbans shall only be used for the intended request with mileage limited to point-to-point travel.
- The driver in charge must make arrangements for key(s) and gas card (if needed). It is also the responsibility of the driver in charge to return key(s) and gas card the same day the suburban(s) is returned.
- The driver of the suburban is responsible for the following:
- Do a pre-inspection of the suburban prior to leaving the transportation area. A list of the pre-inspection minimums is on the clipboard in the suburban.
- Making sure the suburban is cleaned out of all garbage and personal items (under seats) when you return and properly cleaning up all spills of coffee, pop, etc. as soon as they happen.
- Securing the suburban when off campus.
- Securing the suburban when returning to the transportation department and locking the gate when you leave. This also includes making sure all the lights are turned off in the suburban.
- Should the suburban have any mechanical problems the driver should contact the Transportation Director, the Athletic Director, or the Superintendent before having the suburban towed. There are emergency phone numbers on the clipboard in the suburban.
- Report any problems or concerns with the suburban to the Transportation Director ASAP, so it may be addressed before someone else needs to use it.