[Chris_Elston]

Hello everyone,

I have a coaching question.

This is the first year that I have lead the robotics team, but last year I was just a programmer helper and I did coach the entire regional. So this year and last year are very different. I have the wonderful support of eight more engineers that most of them will be attending this year’s regional.

Typically do you let multiple coaches lead your team? I'd like to give this experience and opportunity to the other engineers, but at the same time I'd like to know what works for other teams. I am concerned with multi coaches telling the team drivers different things each match. One coach wants it done this way, while another this way. In my mind, if I select one coach, that one coach will learn each match, and the drivers only listen to one person's ideas of how to play the rounds. At the same token, we have developed a strategy as a team already so everyone should know our game play on the team even all the engineers that could be coaches.

So what do other teams do? Multi coaches or one coach?