How do they match: Coaches and Scouts

  • Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events.
  • Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.
  • Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.
  • Keep and review paper, computerized, and video records of athlete, team, and opposing team performance.
  • Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.

  • Evaluate skills of athletes or performers.
  • Select staff, team members, or performers.
  • Train others on performance techniques.