sports coach

youth director

coach

volleyball coach

instructor

Skyhawks Sports Academy

A typical day at work would be me setting up, but also arriving an hour before the kids arrive to make sure everything is set up. Once the kids arrive you warm up and stretch to make sure they understand that is an important step for them in their future in sports. You run drills, you play games and they have a break for snack. When they leave the check out process is to make sure that the correct person who is picking them up ends up with the child. You don't want to mess it up because the safety of the child is your responsibility.
I learned that as a coach you are going to get thrown curves and you need to rise above it, Just like where I volunteer you're there for the kids. A lot of the kids I coached were very athletic and for those that weren't I wanted to make a great environment that they can fit into without feeling discouraged. I learned that because I remember not knowing much about a sport, but I didn't give up and I don't want them to give up neither.
Management was amazing, there wasn't a time when management wasn't open for questions, conversation and they would listen to everything.
The culture was very friendly, there was always organization when you had to pick your things up for the next camp. It was quick, but it got done and we tried to hurry up and get it done so that the people in charge could go home. 
Hardest part of the job for me I think was when I would invite parents to show up on the last day and see their kids play, sometimes a few parents would show up. I understand that they work, I just think it changes the mood of a kid when they see other kids with their parents and their mom or dad couldn't be there. 
Most enjoyable part would have to be the kids and how much fun they have. In some camps I would ask the parents permission to take photos and email them to them all. It was great!

During my time at Skyhawks, I was an Area Manager for an expansive territory. Depending on the season, a typical day at work usually includes working from home on your laptop, or traveling to programs to oversee operations. 

I learned that even though you only have the title of a manager, you are essentially the owner of your territory. The corporate office is located in Spokane, Washington. This means that you don't have the stress of your superiors looking down on everything you do in-person. However, you still have relatively good contact with the office and your superiors via email or phone, and if necessary, they can come visit the territory at any time.

The majority of coaches and directors that are hired are high school and college students, which means the managerial style is more paternalistic than anything else. However, authoritarian is not the desired style given the environment you are in. There are several situations in which you need to rise to the occasion, and usually that is in the form of getting equipment to staff in need, and running programs as a coach or director as necessary. That is the most difficult part of the job, especially when you start with the company as a coach and work your way to a manager. 

Area Manager positions are few and far between with Skyhawks now, as they attempt to move all areas into franchise ownership. However, the most enjoyable part of the position is having the flexibility to work from home during a majority of the year, and being able to travel during the summer. If you love sports and enjoy creating something bigger, this is definitely the position for you.

The job itself of working with kids was very enjoyable and was the only positive aspect of the job. I worked as a coach for the summer and I can say that the whole program was very poorly managed and the employees are not compensated fairly. 

- The training was nothing like the actual camps themselves and did very little to prepare me. 

- Schedules were constantly being changed to the point where I wouldn't know where you were working until the night before. 

- Camps were consistently understaffed leading to unsafe conditions for the kids. 

- Driving time was not compensated unless I was driving 25 miles one way, so even when I was driving 20 miles to work which is about an hour round trip, I was not compensated for that time. Also, there are many things you must do as a coach to prepare for your camp that adds a lot of unpaid hours by the end of the week.

- I had to pay for my own equipment, background check, and CPR training which is not in any way covered by Skyhawks. I was down about $150 before I even started working. 

Throughout my summer working here, it was an extremely un-enjoyable experience and I would not recommend it to anyone who likes competent management and fair compensation.

I was hired to work as a coach for baseball/soccer over a month ago, and had to pay a processing fee from my own pocket to cover my paperwork. I started to get worried a couple weeks in because I had not been scheduled to work, I texted and emailed my manager and he never gave me a clear response (if any) about when I'd get to work. I then looked at the Skyhawks website and found there weren't even any registrations for these camps anywhere near me. After seeing this, I emailed my manager that I had to resign for not getting hours. AFTER resigning, he then admitted to me they didn't have any camps for me to work. This had been my question to him for the 3 weeks prior and he never gave me a response. I not only lost the opportunity to work for over a month, but literally lost money doing this job. I called corporate to complain about this problem and see if they could do anything to compensate me for this mismanagement. They did absolutely nothing except tell my manager that I complained about him, at which point I got a very immature and frankly disrespectful email from him. I would never recommend working here, and I will never send my future kids here.

I decided to work here after being laid off due to covid-19 and there were several factors that made working at skyhawks not only miserable, but also unsafe. I think my time there says a lot about how little they care about their employees. 
Some examples;
- coaches expected to only get five kids each to better facilitate social distancing, however once I started working, there was only me and my director with over 20 kids, making the job very stressful
- our area director was rude and unsympathetic. To add onto that, they were bad at maintaining open communication with staff and gave us assignments for every week at the last minute 
- I had to spend over $60 on first aid, cpr, and coach training before I could start getting paid, and the training did little to help me prepare for what the job entailed
- they were very slow to act on behavioral problems with kids, even when it escalated to kids being violent 
- we were not given enough resources to work with, we basically just got some balls and cones 
This isn't even everything, but it's probably enough to give an idea of Skyhawk's horrible work environment 

During a typical day, I would show up at 8:30 and prepare the courts or the fields depending on the sport I would be coaching that day. Through this job I learned how to improve my conversational skills with both the children I worked with and the parents who were curious about what we did. I liked the management that I met and worked with, they gave me many opportunities and they were helpful. The workplace culture was mainly positive. All of the other coaches were helpful and we worked together to create an environment that was both fun and helped to build fundamental skills in the sports we played. The hardest part of the job was being tired from being active and having to look after almost 100 kids during the weeks for 6 hours a day. At the same time, the most enjoyable part was working with children. I am an extremely extroverted person and playing different sports and games with the kids was fun for me to do.

I worked with Skyhawks for one year, starting in the winter season. It was a great part time job until the summer. I was paid 22/hour until the next summer started, when my pay was cut to minimum wage because I was working more hours. That was the given justification why my rate was cut, anyways. 

Summer was a ridiculous workload, was expected to do all sorts of things off the clock (unpaid!!) like planning schedules, inflating balls and filling out camper reviews/certificates. This was as a supervisor, but all coaches are expected to do these duties unpaid as well, including during the off-season. It was honestly terrible.

Summer camps were much more childcare than coaching. Off season I had a better experience but wasn't offered more than 8-12 hours per week. Not great all around.

A typical work day consisted of a team of coaches and I planning out an activity schedule for the day. This included group games, age-specified activities, individual skills and team skills. I learned a lot about working with kids as well as working with other coaches. I think the only downside of this job was not being able to work every week. With few camps and so many qualified program coaches around the area, I was only assigned to a handful of camps over the summer. The most rewarding part of the job was knowing that I was trying to make a difference in a kid’s life by teaching them basic fundamentals of a sport. Nowadays, kids grow up with technology at their fingertips and lack motivation to go outside and move around. Skyhawks promotes exercise to young athletes which is very fulfilling. It was a pleasure working for them.

Let me start off my saying if you have minimal work experience and want to have a somewhat simple job with easy advancement to a Camp Director position, this place can work for you . HOWEVER I will also say that the regional management of Skyhawks Sports is about as inept as it gets, it is poorly run by almost every standard. Your bosses will be unavailable for days at a time, equipment will mysteriously never arrive, you will be scheduled a meet 48 hours before your next work assignment dispute their claim they will give you 1 week heads up, they will ignore your sports preferences and assign you to things you have no business teaching, and all of their equipment is low quality. Working here makes you want to tell all your friends and family to steer clear of the place. 

Pros
It’s a fun job where you’re able to do what you feel is good. Love working with kids, they’re all usually sweet and ready to learn. Parents were always decent and kind. Manager put you in a place but didn’t talk to you much. We’re given the equipment that’s needed so don’t need to buy anything. 

Cons
No benefits, seasonal job, low pay. Manager doesn’t talk to you much. You may or may not have other coaches there. You come up with the entire curriculum for the week with little to no help. Most of the coaches have never played the sport they are teaching. If you’re a parent just know they were placed in the sport most likely without any knowledge. Of the 5-6 sports I coached I only played one of them in my life. 

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