Coach

What it means

The coach is the adult leading a specific team and typically serves as the primary point of contact between participants, their families, and the broader athletic department for anything related to that team's fundraising campaign. On many rosters, the coach also functions as the program administrator for their own team's campaign, though larger programs sometimes separate those responsibilities.

How it works on HypeRaise

Coaches are usually the ones communicating directly with participants and parents about campaign deadlines, goals, and progress, since they already have an established relationship and regular contact with the team through practices and games. This makes the coach a natural conduit for campaign updates that might otherwise get lost in a school-wide email or newsletter.

Key details

Because coaches carry day-to-day responsibility for their own team's campaign, but athletic directors retain oversight across every team in the department, HypeRaise's reporting structure supports both views simultaneously. A coach sees the detail they need for their own roster; the athletic director sees a rolled-up view across every program without needing to separately request updates from each coach.

Coaches typically benefit from a brief onboarding to the platform basics, particularly around how participant pages work and how to check in on campaign progress, which is one of the things a HypeRaise local rep can help with directly during campaign setup.