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Objectives of Pre-Season Meetings

Introduce student activity participants, their parents, coaches, athletic trainers and sponsors to each other in a relaxed, cooperative atmosphere.
Provide information about activities, insurance, physicals, district policies, program philosophy, etc.
Provide information on state high school athletic/activity association, school and team rules.
Provide specific guidelines, rules and consequences of rule violations.
Provide information concerning practice, game and tournament schedules.
Warn student activity participants and their parents of the potential for physical injury. Look at team strategies.
Promote importance of on-going, honest communication.
Create awareness about tobacco, alcohol and other drug use issues, ethics and sportsmanship, and how they relate to sports and other activities.
Involve parents in tobacco, alcohol and other drug education and prevention efforts.
Develop a bond of mutual respect, cooperation, support and shared responsibility between student activity participants, their parents and the school.
Involve parents in the development of student performers on and off the playing field.