Teeball Managers
Managers are an essential part of our club and form part of our core group of volunteers who help make games happen. As such, we provide free training and support to these people who kindly give up their free time to enable our players to have fun.
Our 2022-2023 Managers Handbook is now available for download!
It contains information on:
- Season details
- Starting the season
- Game day procedures
- Carnivals and State Championships
- Carine-specific regulations
- Finishing the season
- The Carine Cats Way (our codes of conduct)
If you missed our Managers Meeting at the start of the season, you can view an overview of what was covered in this video.
The role of manager is a rewarding one, as it gives you an opportunity to be a part of the game-day experience as well as being an important link between the families within your team.
The key roles of a manager are to:
- help the Coach during games by ensuring players know their batting order, playing positions and organising the "bat boy/girl";
- organise a weekly jobs roster for parents - such as scorer, equipment collection and the like;
- distribute information, newsletters and other items to the team, and return appropriate forms and information to the club;
- keep the game count record up to date and collect/distribute game count badges as required;
- encourage good sportsmanship and parent involvement;
- any other team-related general requirements for the Carine Cats Ball Club.
Frequently Asked Questions
Many managers use a third-party app, such as WhatsApp or GameDay, to communicate with the team. Whatever you choose to use, it should be simple to use, and allow for clear information and communication to take place.
Regular communication includes asking which players may be available/unavailable each week, ensuring families know the fixture for the week, and who is rostered on for any particular duties. Additionally, there are sometimes messages that need to be relayed from the Teeball Committee. These are usually sent to the manager to communicate with their team.
Although teams are predominantly set following the pre-season Allocation Day, we still have a few things to work through, such as finalising sponsorship (and therefore all teams names), adding any last-minute players or entire teams into the mix. As a result, fixtures are usually released about two weeks before the start of the season.
When we get new sponsors to our club, there is a natural turn around for the production of new playing tops. In the meantime, an older set of playing tops are provided to get the season started, and as soon as the brand new playing tops arrive, the club will swap them over.
Managers are responsible for ensuring that games run smoothly, with all volunteer roles filled. Generally, a roster for parent volunteers are needed for the following roles:
- Umpire: If you do not have one or two people who are willing or able to complete this role, you may need to contact the TeeBall Umpiring Coordinator to source and pay for a junior umpire. More information about this can be found here: https://teeball.carinecats.com.au/information/umpiring/. An umpire must wear closed-in shoes.
- Base Coaches: Some coaches prefer to have continuity with their base coaches, and use the same ones each week. Other times, it is appropriate to rotate this role between parents. You will need a 1st base coach and a 3rd base coach for each game. Base coaches must wear closed-in shoes.
- Scorer: You will need to roster on a scorer for each game. Scoring is not difficult for tee-ball. A scorer must wear closed-in shoes.
- Equipment Collection: If your team has an 8:30am time slot, you will need to roster a parent to collect equipment from the Property Shed (sometimes, if there is no game following yours, you will also need to return the equipment). If your team has a 10:00am time slot, you will need to roster a parent to return the equipment to the Shed. The equipment includes: a 3x3m gazebo, two fold-out benches, and a bat stand. It is usually a two-person job, so ensure the family that is rostered on is aware of this!
The make-up of your team will determine how many of these roles will need to be rostered. For example, if you have regular base coaches and umpires, then you will not need to roster these jobs. Generally, if you have someone regularly filling a role, such as base coach, manager, umpire or coach, it would be fair to leave them off a parent roster for other roles.
Managers are responsible for ensuring that games run smoothly, with all volunteer roles filled. Generally, a roster for parent volunteers are needed for the following roles:
- Umpire: If you do not have one or two people who are willing or able to complete this role, you may need to contact the TeeBall Umpiring Coordinator to source and pay for a junior umpire. More information about this can be found here: https://teeball.carinecats.com.au/information/umpiring/. An umpire must wear closed-in shoes.
- Base Coaches: Some coaches prefer to have continuity with their base coaches, and use the same ones each week. Other times, it is appropriate to rotate this role between parents. You will need a 1st base coach and a 3rd base coach for each game. Base coaches must wear closed-in shoes.
- Scorer: You will need to roster on a scorer for each game. Scoring is not difficult for tee-ball. A scorer must wear closed-in shoes.
- Equipment Collection: If your team has an 8:30am time slot, you will need to roster a parent to collect equipment from the Property Shed (sometimes, if there is no game following yours, you will also need to return the equipment). If your team has a 10:00am time slot, you will need to roster a parent to return the equipment to the Shed. The equipment includes: a 3x3m gazebo, two fold-out benches, and a bat stand. It is usually a two-person job, so ensure the family that is rostered on is aware of this!
The make-up of your team will determine how many of these roles will need to be rostered. For example, if you have regular base coaches and umpires, then you will not need to roster these jobs. Generally, if you have someone regularly filling a role, such as base coach, manager, umpire or coach, it would be fair to leave them off a parent roster for other roles.
Game Day Duties
- Home Team: If your team is listed as the HOME TEAM, you will set up along the 1st base line, and as a team are responsible for supplying the PLATE UMPIRE, all bases, the tee and a ball.
- Away Team: If your team is listed as the AWAY TEAM, you will set up along the 3rd base line, and as a team are responsible for supplying the BASE UMPIRE.
- Closed in Shoes: As a manager, you need to ensure that all volunteers are wearing closed-in shoes. This includes the coach, manager, base coaches, umpire and scorer. They cannot take part in their role without closed-in shoes, as it is a TBAWA health and safety insurance essential.
- Game Badges: If you have a player who has received a game badge (50, 75, 100, 125 or 150), you will have received an email earlier in the week from the Teeball Registrar. This will need to be collected from the Property Shed before the game by the Manager.
- Game duties: In-game management of players, including ensuring batting order is maintained, and bat boy/girl completes duties.
Sometimes there may be a need for a team to try and reschedule one of their fixtured games (whether it is due to mass illness, absences etc).
A manager's first point of call is to make contact with the manager of the other team and see if the game could be rescheduled to during a training session time slot. Teams can play with less than 9 (taking out centre field and/or catcher, or borrowing a fielder from the other team, with no automatic out for less than 9 players), so this is worth discussing with the other team's manager as well.
The second thing to do is to let the club know, so we don't go chasing scorecards or wonder why a diamond hasn't been set up, or know if a diamond needs to be packed away by the early timeslot.
If you can't arrange a suitable time with the other team, let the Club know and we can assist.