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Basketball coaching portfolio template

Write your basketball coaching portfolio: about you, your philosophy, how you'll play, practice, player development and your first-year plan. Print it, edit it in Word, or present it as interview slides. Free.

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Basketball coaching portfolio template

Put your coaching on paper for your next interview: about you, your philosophy, how you'll play, practice, player development and your plan for the first year, as a portfolio or as slides.

Showing the worked example: A fictional assistant coach's portfolio for a head coaching job. Change any value to use your own.

Your team

As you'd say it in one line.

The job this portfolio is for.

Anything left blank prints as a line to fill in by hand. Write {team}, {season} or another detail in braces and it prints as you typed it above, or as a line to fill in.

What to print
Edit the coaching portfolio (11 of 11 sections on)
Paper (portrait)

Result

A 2-page coaching portfolio: coaching portfolio, on Letter.

Coaching portfolioDana Rivera, Varsity assistant coach, Harbor City High SchoolThe position:Head boys basketball coach, Riverside High SchoolEmail or phone:dana.rivera@example.com, (555) 010-0142About meI've coached high school basketball for nine years: four as JV head coach and five as varsity assistant at Harbor City High School,where I run our defense and our scouting. Our teams have been known for defending without fouling and for sharing the ball.Coaching philosophyPlayers first, then the program, then the scoreboard. We compete on the things we control: getting back on defense, contesting everyshot, boxing out and making the extra pass. Every player is coached every day, and every player knows their role.Experience2021 to now: varsity assistant coach, Harbor City High School. Defense, scouting and the summer program.2017 to 2021: JV head coach, Harbor City High School.2015 to 2017: head coach, Bayside Middle School.How we'll play: offenseFive-out motion to start, so every player learns to cut, screen and pass.Run after every miss and most makes.Two zone sets and one press break, kept simple and taught early.How we'll play: defenseMan-to-man, with help from the weak side on every drive.No easy baskets in transition: three players back on every shot.A 2-3 zone for a few possessions when we need a change of pace.PracticeTwo hours, planned to the minute and shared with the staff the night before.A sample day: warm-up and ball handling (15), shell and closeouts (20), competitive drills (25), offense (25), live play (25), freethrows when tired (10).Player developmentOff-season skill groups three days a week, by position.Each player sets one skill goal and takes the same test at the start and end of the season.My plan for the first year1.First month: meet every player, family and coach in the program; keep what works; set the team rules.2.Summer: open gyms, a team camp and a summer league to put in the offense.3.First season: one way of playing from middle school to varsity.Made with the free Ball Coach coaching portfolio template, ballcoach.ai.Page 1 of 2Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
Coaching portfolio (continued)My plan for the first year (continued)4.End of the year: a season review with the staff and a plan for the next one.Culture, school and communityGrade checks every two weeks, and study hall for anyone falling behind.A preseason parent meeting and one clear way for families to reach the staff.One service project each season, chosen by the players.StaffEvery assistant leads one part of the program: defense, player development or the JV team.A weekly staff meeting and a shared practice plan.ReferencesAvailable on request.Made with the free Ball Coach coaching portfolio template, ballcoach.ai.Page 2 of 2Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
How this works

Fill in your name and the position, then replace each prompt in [brackets] with your own words; the page counts the prompts left. Switch sections off, rename them or add points. Print it as a portfolio, or as interview slides with one section a slide. Everything in it is yours to write: the prompts suggest what a section usually covers, and nothing in the template judges an answer. To keep editing somewhere else, download the Word file (it opens in Word, Google Docs and Pages) or copy the document to paste into an email or a document.

  • 11 sections you can switch off or rename
  • Print the portfolio or the slides: one at a time, since a print job faces one way
  • Letter or A4: the portfolio portrait, the slides landscape
  • The worked example is a fictional coach: the name, schools, contacts and plans are invented

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