Description: Unified Sports Flag Football Co-Head Coach for the Fall Season. 2 positions are available.

Job Summary: Special Olympics Unified Sports combine students with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team for sports training and competition.  Special Olympics Indiana (SOIN) is considered a world leader in the development of these programs, having conducted the first-ever pilot test of Unified Sports in 1989, it has since instituted competitions in virtually every sport.

• Teams consist of an approimately equal number of students with intellectual disabilities (Unified Student Athletes) and students without intellectual disabilities (Unified Student Partners).
• These distinctions will be made for entry purposes only.  There will be no identifiable distinction between participants or competition
• Teams are co-ed
• Team Size: Minimum of 5 (three Unified Student Athletes and 2 Unified Student Partners on the field at all times)
  
  

Vision of Unified Sports: The IHSAA/SOIN Unified Sports project is designed to allow high school students with and without intellectual disabilities the opportunity to represent their high school in an IHSAA sanctioned activity by participating on a Unified Sports team while providing these students with a quality experience of sports training and competition.

Definition of Unified Sports Participants:

• Unified Student Athlete:  A school may identify a student as a Unified Student-Athlete if the student is receiving special education and related services pursuant to an individual education program (IEP) based on a cognitive, developmental and/or intellectual delay or disability
• Unified Student Partner:  A Unified Student Partner is a student that meets the eligibility criteria outlined in the General Eligibility rules 1-20, but is  NOT identified as a Unified Student Athlete.
  
  

Unified Sports Flag Football Basics

• Safety is the primary consideration - flag football is a NON-CONTACT sport - stationary "screen blocking", but no moving blocks; no kick offs or punts; no returns of fumbles or interceptions, etc.
• Games consist of two 20-minute halves on a field that is 60 yards by 25 yards
• Game rules (developed by SOIN and modified for use by the IHSAA) are available at IHSAA.org>Schools>Coaches
  
  

Qualifications:

1. Coaches of IHSAA sports must complete the training referred to in the IHSAA General Eligibility "rule 3: Coaches" and must have successfully completed the NFHS course on Unified Sports
2. Coaches of SOIN sponsored sports must be adults designated by the principal that have successfully completed the NFHS course on Unified Sports.
   
   

Working Conditions: High School, grades 9-12.

Application Procedure:
Apply Online.

Selection Procedure: Applications will be reviewed upon submission and applicants selected for interviews will be contacted by phone or email.