Article - Coaches on the Floor

[Rob1968]

A few years ago, HS Womens Varsity game, the very pregnant HC was a few feet out on the court as I started to change ends. I had closed down as Trail, on a shot attempt at her end, and as I took the second or third step towards the other end, I realized that the HC was right there! I managed to do a 360 in the air to miss her - just barely - as she and the crowd gasped in anticipated horror!
I got a round of applause - no T to the coach, no need to call the paramedics, and she stayed off the court for the rest of the game . . . and my career continued . . .

[Rich]

The coaching box is only a real issue when a coach is out of it for purposes other than coaching.

I dealt with a coaching box twice this season -- once I walked a coach back to his box when he was yelling at a partner. Later I assessed a technical foul - he was in the box at the time. Had nothing to do with the box, either.

In the second last game I worked, there was a coach who ended up all the way at the end line. While he was coaching at the time, I felt I needed to guide him back to the box -- he was just that far out of it.

My last game of the season was on a college floor and there were no HS coaching box lines even drawn.