What is a Captain's Role?

 
 

What is a Captain’s Role?

Jeff Janssen Leadership Manual


  • Ensure High Standards and Strong Work Ethic

    • Be the ones to set the tone

    • Set and maintain the standards for everyone else to follow

    • Must give your all and demand that your teammates do the same

  • Keep Your Team from Crumbling Under Pressure and Adversity

    • Set the tone for how to treat officials, opponents, teammates and coaches

    • When adversity strikes, leaders maintain their own composure which keeps teammates under control

    • Need to refocus the team back on task and remain a calm force

  • Build Better Team Chemistry

    • Welcome and take the new members of the team under their wing

    • Make sure all players feel accepted and have someone to turn to in difficult situations

    • Prevent cliques from developing, unify teammates and keep team focused on a common goal

  • Help Keep Coaches Updated with the Pulse of the Team

    • Keep coaches connected with the team

    • Keep coaches informed about how players might be doing, who is struggling and if there is any tension among team members

    • Provide coaches with input on changes that the coaching staff wants to institute or already have

  • Minimize and Manage Conflicts

    • Make coaches job easier by preventing, minimizing, and handling significant portion of the typical problems that occur on teams

      • Some problems that may occur:

        • Playing time

        • Physical play at practice

        • Players complaining to parents/teammates

  • Guide Teammates Against Making Bad Decisions

    • Help teammates from making poor decisions on campus and in the community that could tarnish your program

    • Help control and curb the common college student temptations

    • Look out for their teammates that are willing to constructively confront them when necessary

  • Be Loyal to Coaches and Support their Decisions

    • Your coaches put trust in you and you are expected to support and respect their decisions to the team

    • Sacred trust because coaching staff and captains