The Activities Director

Mr. Laprise has been an activities director for four years. This is currently his second year in the position, and about ten years ago he was an activities director for two years. Mr. Laprise decided to become an activities director because he wanted to still be watching the kids involved with sports but without directly coaching them. He will also hopefully be the activities director next year. He wants to hold this position for as long as he can.

In Mr. Laprise’s opinion the most challenging part is balancing time between being an activities director and teacher. He says that he is capable of being an activities director and a teacher with the help of having great coaches, supporting teachers, and a lot of time outside of school to get things accomplished. He also finds challenging dealing with a lot of teams, sports, and activities. Mr. Laprise also said that this spring mother nature has not been very helpful for communicating to parents about the fields and tryouts.

The responsibilities of being an activities director are scheduling games and practices, organizing events, getting coaches, budgeting, interviewing candidates, scheduling gyms, finding and dealing with equipment, inventory, communicating with other schools, and transportation. Out of all of these, Mr. Laprise says there is very little stress in his job thus far. Although he did find a little bit stressful trying to set up games, practices, and tryouts with the rainy and bad weather.

Mr. Laprise’s favorite part is seeing the kids perform and succeed. He goes to all the home games for all the teams. It is part of his job to set up the fields, greet the opposing teams and officials, and to supervise the events. Mr. Laprise enjoys doing this very much.

Contribution from Vaida Smith.