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The most common associated position on the drive team when mentioning mentors is the coach, so I am going to talk mainly about that position.

We like to use students for our drive team, since we try to be as student run as possible. However, if we have a student who wants to be a coach, but has not had any experience on the field, we will have one of our coaches coach and have the student be the human player. That way, the student follows the coach around, learning what responsibilities come with the coach and experiences the environment of being on the field during a match and competition. I was in this position last year, and I ended up coaching Virginia and Atlanta. It depends what the specific team thinks in regards to mentors being on the drive train, but our motives for having a student drive team is because we want our team to be as student run as possible, with some exceptions, that is.