Coach Administration

▶️ Accident Report Form

What is Boots from Pros?

Boots from Pros: BFP is a unique opportunity for Poet-Athletes to receive new or lightly worn cleats from professional soccer players on the Washington Spirit and other NWSL teams. Boots From Pros was started in 2020 by Washington Spirit and US Women’s National Team player (and DC SCORES board member!) Ashley Hatch. 

The goal is to not only provide our poet-athletes with high quality equipment, but to create a special bond within the soccer community among youth players and their local professional players. Each pair of shoes will include a note of advice or encouragement from the professional player. We also have opportunities for our poet-athletes to connect with the pros at our events and Washington Spirit games at Audi field. Occasionally, Washington Spirit players may be able to visit our schools and present the cleats themselves.

How do you nominate a poet-athlete?

Poet-Athlete Eligibility: Requests are open to all Poet-Athletes. However, in an effort to continue to empower our girls and gender-expansive youth, we have set a requirement to balance requests, as you will see in the request form. Complete the Request form!

Have a poet-athlete in mind? 

▶️ Submit a Boots From Pros Request, HERE.

For School Leaders: Required Partnership and Building Use Agreements HERE!  (2024-2025 Partnership and Building Use Agreements) 

▶️ Submit Building Use Agreement, HERE.

Access up-to-date calendars, key program dates, and communicate with all stakeholders utilizing: English and Spanish flyers with fall and spring event schedules; Print-friendly program schedules; Links to our program events page on the DC SCORES website; Best practices for where to find event logistics, how to use flyers, and communicate schedules to families and school admin. 

▶️ Calendars & Events 

Please complete your coach agreement at the Coach Agreement page. The Coach Agreement is required for all paid coaches. This is how DC SCORES collects payment information.

▶️ Coach Agreement

All past coach bulletins will be archived here! Check up on important bi-weekly updates and timely resources. 

▶️ Coach Bulletin

The coach compensation page will inform you about pay rate based on coaching level, stipends, and key payment dates for the season.

▶️ Coach Compensation Guide

Read the Coach Handbook for everything you need to know about being a DC SCORES coach. 

▶️ Coach Handbook

The Coach FAQ has answers to all of your questions about DC SCORES coaching, payment and paperwork, game days, soccer and writing. 

▶️ Coach FAQ

Utilize the Community Building page to strengthen your team culture, values, and norms by empowering poet-athlete voice. You'll find activity templates, workbooks, and poet-athlete and parent/guardian "promises". 

▶️ Community Building: Activities & Resources

All of our coaches who are going to be at DCPS sites must complete a DCPS Volunteer Background Check (fingerprinting). If you are a DCPS teacher, you do not have to go through this process. If you are not a DCPS teacher, please see the steps below to complete the background check. This must be completed before you begin coaching! Please feel free to reach out with any questions to [email protected].

1. Fill out the DCPS Volunteer Clearance Application. It will ask you to put a DCPS school as your volunteer site; put "After School Program". If you have any questions, just email [email protected]!

2. You will be prompted to complete a TB health screening to determine if you must go in person to have a TB test completed. If it is determined that you must have one done, it must get your TB test FIRST before going to DCPS. If you have a negative TB test from the last year, then you are good to go and bring that to the DCPS office!

TB tests are offered at most doctor's offices and at a variety of clinics. DC SCORES recommends the following location:

• MARC Clinic at 3326 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010

• Office Hours: 7am - 3pm M-F; Sat 7am-11am

• Cost: $30

• Phone: 202-722-0122

• Walk-ins are fine, no appointment needed.

You must go in to get the test and then come back within 48-72 to get your results read.

3. Get your DCPS clearance.

1. Follow the instructions you received from DCPS and go to a FieldPrint office to get your check done.

2. What to bring: State issued photo ID, TB test if needed

4. Your DCPS Clearance letters will be emailed to you 5-10 business days after you get fingerprinted. Please send a copy for your file to [email protected].

Please review important emergency protocols and links on the Emergency Preparedness page. Links include: Emergency Preparedness Plan Upload Form, Incident Report Form, and OAG Guidance on Immigration Enforcement for DC Schools

▶️ Emergency Preparedness

Please reference the Fair Play Talk Checklist and apply it at games and practices! Our staff leads both teams in the Fair Play Talk before every competition to set a consistent standard of Fair Play. We encourage you to take these principles back to your team!

▶️ Fair Play Talk

Please utilize the family engagement resources page to plan your family meeting and learn how to keep families engaged throughout the season. 

▶️ Family Engagement 

Forms to be completed for DC SCORES programming. Used as needed.

• Permission slips (English and Spanish)

• Family transportation (English and Spanish)

▶️ Student and Family Forms 

Junior Scores Game Day form to be completed. One form submission per school.

▶️ Junior Scores Game Day Form 

Visit the liaison page for knowing the responsibilities and payment for being a liaison.

▶️ Liaison Guide

What you will find on the New Coaches page: Everything a new coach needs to get approved to coach! This includes a coach recruitment flyer (for liaisons and admin), an introduction to DC SCORES, the coach application form, as well as links to a new coach checklist, coach agreement, and more!

Who should visit this page?: New coaches and liaisons or existing coaches recruiting and onboarding new coaches. 

▶️ New Coaches

Required tasks to be completed within the first two weeks of programming

▶️ Site Checklist 

Sites: 

• Amidon-Bowen Elementary School — Zarea Boyde

• Amidon-Bowen Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Zarea Boyde

• Bancroft Elementary School — Meg Grieve

• Bancroft Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Meg Grieve

• Barnard Elementary School —Nichole Erwin

• Barnard Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Nichole Erwin

• Beers Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• Beers Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Saede Eifrig

• Bishop Walker Elementary School — Josselin Possian

• Boone Elementary School — Josselin Possian

• Brightwood Elementary School — Meg Grieve

• Brookland Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• Bunker Hill Elementary School — Ronald Granados

• Burrville Elementary School — Jose Granados

• Burrville Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Jose Granados

• Capital City Public Charter School - ES — Jose Granados

• Capital City Public Charter School - MS — Daniel Sheerin

• Cardozo Education Campus — Meg Grieve

• Drew Elementary School — Zarea Boyde

• Drew Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Zarea Boyde

• Excel Academy — Zarea Boyde

• Excel Academy - MS — Nichole Erwin

• Garfield Elementary School — Klu Clougherty

• Garrison Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• Hart Middle School — Josselin Possian

• HD Cooke Elementary School — Zarea Boyde

• Hendley Elementary School — Klu Clougherty

• Houston Elementary School — Klu Clougherty

• Houston Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Klu Clougherty

• Ida B Wells Middle School — Nichole Erwin

• JC Nalle Elementary School — Jose Granados

• Jefferson Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• John Francis Education Campus - MS — Meg Grieve

• John Lewis Education Campus - ES — Jose Granados

• John Lewis Education Campus - Junior SCORES — Jose Granados

• John R Francis Education Campus - ES — Ronald Granados

• Johnson Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• Kelly Miller Middle School — Josselin Possian

• Ketcham Elementary School — Nichole Erwin

• Ketcham Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Nichole Erwin

• Kimball Elementary School — Meg Grieve

• Kimball Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Meg Grieve

• KIPP DC: AIM Academy — Daniel Sheerin

• KIPP DC: Key Academy — Josselin Possian

• KIPP DC: Quest Academy — Zarea Boyde

• KIPP DC: WILL Academy — Josselin Possian

• Langley Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• LaSalle-Backus Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• LaSalle-Backus Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Saede Eifrig

• Leckie Education Campus - ES — Ronald Granados

• Leckie Education Campus - Junior SCORES — Ronald Granados

• Leckie Education Campus - MS — Daniel Sheerin

• Lincoln Middle School — Josselin Possian

• MacFarland Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• Malcolm X Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• Malcolm X Elementary School -  Junior SCORES — Saede Eifrig

• McKinely Tech Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• Meridian Public Charter School - ES — Ronald Granados

• Meridian Public Charter School - Junior SCORES — Ronald Granados

• Meridian Public Charter School - MS — Meg Grieve

• Miner Elementary School — Saede Eifrig

• Miner Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Saede Eifrig

• Moten Elementary School — Ronald Granados

• Park View Recreation Center - Junior SCORES — Jose Granados

• Powell Elementary School — Klu Clougherty

• Powell Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Klu Clougherty

• Raymond Elementary School - ES — Meg Grieve

• Raymond Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Meg Grieve

• Reed Elementary School — Jose Granados

• Seaton Elementary School — Nichole Erwin

• Seaton Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Nichole Erwin

• Shirley Chisholm Elementary School — Ronald Granados

• Sousa Middle School — Daniel Sheerin

• Stanton Elementary School — Josselin Possian

• Stanton Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Josselin Possian

• The Sojourner Truth School — Nichole Erwin

• Thomas Elementary School — Meg Grieve

• Thomas Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Meg Grieve

• Thomson Elementary School — Josselin Possian

• Trinidad Recreation Center - Junior SCORES — Jose Granados

• Truesdell Elementary School — Ronald Granados

• Truesdell Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Ronald Granados

• Tubman Elementary School — Nichole Erwin

• Tubman Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Nichole Erwin

• Turner Elementary School — Zarea Boyde

• Van Ness Elementary School — Ronald Granados

• Whitlock Elementary School — Jose Granados

• Whitlock Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Jose Granados

• Whittier Elementary School — Zarea Boyde

• Whittier Elementary School - Junior SCORES — Zarea Boyde

Site coordinator emails: 

• Danny Sheerin - [email protected]

• Jose Granados - [email protected] 

• Josselin Possian - [email protected]

• Klu Clougherty - [email protected]

• Meg Grieve - [email protected] 

• Nichole Erwin - [email protected]

• Ronald Granados - [email protected]

• Saede Eifrig - [email protected]

• Zarea Boyde - [email protected]

Please utilize this resource to request support from our team. If your support requires immediate assistance from DC SCORES, please contact your site coordinator.

▶️ Site Support Request Form 

Site Workbooks: Plan your sessions and take coach/student attendance while participating in DC SCORES programming.

▶️ Site Workbooks 

Recruit and register new poet-athlete with these materials: PDF registration forms (in English and Spanish), Online Registration Form: register.dcscores.org , a guide on the Student Registration Process, Elementary School & Middle School Student Recruitment Flyers, and Family Letters (in English and Spanish).

▶️ Student Recruitment and Registration

Policy Reminder

All poet-athletes must wear their official New Balance DC SCORES jerseys, plus other applicable uniform items (shorts, socks, and shin guards), at DC SCORES events. This policy includes gamedays, tournaments (Frenzy, Jamboree, Cups), slams, clinics, and other events organized by DC SCORES.*

Coaches should wear a DC SCORES-branded t-shirt or long-sleeve shirt at these events. If you do not have DC SCORES-branded attire, please contact your site manager. 

Teams with custom jerseys and other custom gear may wear these items for practice and during warmups at gamedays and soccer events.

Why Do We Implement This Policy?

Safety

DC SCORES staff and volunteers use our official branded gear to quickly and easily identify DC SCORES poet-athletes and coaches during emergency situations. This is particularly critical during events where members of the public may be present.

Media Consent

The DC SCORES registration form includes a media release that gives consent for DC SCORES to photograph and video poet-athletes. DC SCORES staff and media partners must not capture photos or videos of other youth present at our events. Ensuring our young people are in branded gear makes it easy to identify young people whose families have signed our media release. 

Community Building 

Poet-athletes are part of the same team: the DC SCORES team. The DC SCORES uniform helps to reinforce our community identity and ensure that every poet-athlete has the same high-quality gear regardless of their family’s background or financial situation. Our uniforms help to create equity and inclusivity across teams.

Partnership Compliance

New Balance provides high-quality jerseys to all 30,000 poet-athletes in the America SCORES network free of charge, while the Washington Spirit and D.C. United support DC SCORES in numerous ways throughout the season. By incorporating New Balance, Spirit, and D.C. United branding, our official uniforms recognize the power of these partnerships.

*A Note on Poetry Slams

We understand that some teams incorporate costumes into their slam performances. Teams that wish to use costumes should wear their jerseys to poetry slams. Teams may incorporate jerseys into costumes or wear costumes over their jerseys while on stage. Please note that obscuring the jerseys makes it less likely that DC SCORES and media partners will use photos and videos of teams' performances in external media, including social media, press, and other marketing.