Reporting to the Director of Athletics, the Softball Coach must provide strategic leadership for Women’s Softball program while supporting the wider mission and goals of the University. The Coach is responsible for all aspects of coaching the team including recruiting, fitness training, practice, competition and travel. The Coach will advocate for the importance of the Schreiner Softball program within the campus community, as well as the larger Kerrville community, and will serve as a role model of the high standards expected of our students. A successful candidate will have experience recruiting students, as well as cultivating friends to meet enrollment and fundraising goals. The successful candidate should demonstrate and support a commitment and sensitivity to diversity, gender equity, and equal opportunity.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Develop a program that will be highly competitive annually within the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. • Ambitiously and successfully recruit and retain academically and athletically motivated student-athletes who will have a positive impact on the program and campus. • Monitor and promote a highly successful academic atmosphere for student-athletes. • Develop a culture of excellence where successful student-athletes will thrive and be engaged in the growth of the team and themselves. • Plan and conduct team practices and workouts for traditional and non-traditional seasons. • Prepare (conference and non-conference) schedules for submission to Director of Athletics annually. • Know and abide by the rules and policies of Schreiner University, SCAC, and NCAA. • Work with athletics administration to manage all aspects of home contests, including coordination of facilities and officials. • Make travel arrangements for road games and trips. • Promote an atmosphere of academic excellence for student-athletes. • Participate in conference meetings. • Provide meet results and statistics to the SU Sports Information Director or Asst. Athletic Director • Be responsible for the purchase, inventory and maintenance (and repair if necessary) of uniforms, supplies, and equipment. • Be responsible for athletes’ conduct on trips. • Recommend athletes for awards. • Develop a positive relationship with and play an active role in university and community events and programs. • Work collaboratively with Student Services and Residence Life staff with respect to student needs and any issues related to student behavior. • Collaborate with Director in establishing a fundraising plan for that meets the department’s annual fundraising goals and aligns with the University’s overall fundraising strategy • Manage funds by staying within an annual budget which includes equipment, travel, facility, training or related resource needs. • Be responsible for processing business-related paperwork, such as: requisitions for purchase orders, travel forms, credit card purchases and receipts, travel advances, reimbursements and other business forms. • In coordination with auxiliary services and the other coaches, promote and manage a summer camp program that helps to achieve the fundraising goals of the department. • Other duties as assigned from time to time by the Athletic Director and/or Dean of Students
• Maintain University Safety - To ensure that all filing cabinet drawers are shut when not in use, cords are not across floor without being securely fastened down, all walkways remain clear in the office and hallway with no items hanging off edges or coming out from under tables, and chairs are placed in unobtrusive areas. Monitor baseball facility for safety. • Communications - Acts to facilitate good communications between employees, students, parents and management through interpersonal and professional communication techniques. • Confidentiality - Maintains the highest level of confidence concerning all matters in the Athletic Department. Does not discuss in any manner any information obtained through work.
Where We Came From
Named after the Texas Ranger and “Father of the Hill Country” who provided the original land and endowment for the school in 1923, Schreiner University is a product of the soil in which it was grown. Captain Charles Schreiner immigrated to Texas as a teenager and lost his parents soon after he arrived. Through hard work and commitment, he built a livestock, retail, and banking empire in Kerr County, the heart of the Texas Hill Country. His story, like those of so many other Texans, is one of courage, strength, hope, and resolve. Though the odds were against him, Captain Schreiner had a vision of a vibrant and diverse Texas Hill Country that included a school educating young men—and later young women—in the military tradition.
Schreiner Institute also grew out of the vision of the Presbytery of Western Texas. In the tradition of the denomination, the Presbytery of Western Texas recognized the people of the Texas Hill Country required a quality education in order for their minds and, therefore, their hearts to be liberated and truly free. As early as 1906, records indicate the Presbytery intended to start a school in Kerrville. In 1923, working alongside Captai...n Schreiner, it saw that school—Schreiner Institute—become a reality.
Out of the minds and hearts of Captain Schreiner and the Presbytery of West Texas grew the maverick educational institution known today as Schreiner University.
Who We Are
At Schreiner University, students enter with hope and leave with achievement. We are a diverse, fiercely independent university. We are affiliated by choice and covenant with the Presbyterian Church (USA) with a main campus in the Texas Hill Country and first year campuses throughout the state.
What We Do
Schreiner University is a place of opportunity. We offer undergraduate and graduate students a personalized, integrated, and holistic educational experience that prepares them for meaningful work and purposeful lives in a changing global society. Students study in-depth in a specific area of interest while acquiring broad skills and habits of mind to navigate a complex, diverse, and unscripted future.
Why We Do It
All students are valuable and unique;
Every student should grow intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially;
We value diversity of people and thought in a setting of open, civil discourse;
Life-long learning and service to society are critical in a global world; and
Higher education must develop thoughtful, productive, and ethical citizens.
Where We Are Going
By 2023, Schreiner University will be a university of 2,250 students, educating men and women for service and leadership in the Hill Country, Texas, the nation, and world. We will recruit enthusiastic and diverse men and women and forge in them the intellectual, emotional, and personal resilience that has made Schreiner Institute, College, and University the uniquely Texan educational institution it has been, is, and will be.
