The mission of Princeton University Department of Athletics is to strive for excellence in academics and athletics, while embracing equity in opportunity, good sportsmanship, and ethical conduct. In keeping with this mission, the role of the assistant coach of men’s lacrosse is to provide a quality varsity program that will challenge and develop the physical, mental and personal abilities of student-athletes of a Division I program.
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent coaching experience.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
First Aid, AED, and CPR certification within four months of hire.
Functional computer skills.
Excellent organizational skills.
Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to manage team dynamics.
Demonstrated organizational ability for practice and recruiting.
An understanding of the fundamental role that intercollegiate athletics, properly implemented, can play in the educational development of our student-athletes.
Previous recruiting experience preferred.
Collegiate playing experience preferred.
Successful background in coaching at the collegiate level preferred.
Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching. The University provides its students with academic, extracurricular and other resources—in a residential community committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff—that help them achieve at the highest scholarly levels and prepare them for positions of leadership and lives of service in many fields of human endeavor. Through the scholarship and teaching of its faculty, and the many contributions to society of its alumni, Princeton seeks to fulfill its informal motto: “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity"