12. TEAM OFFICERS' DUTIES AND POSITION
12.1 Team Captain-In team matches each team must have a designated
Team Captain (See Rules 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.12). He is responsible for maintaining
discipline within his team squad. He will at all times cooperate with the
officials of the tournament in the interest of safety, efficiency and good
sportsmanship. A Team Captain is responsible for all members of his team. It
is his responsibility to:
(a) Be familiar with the program.
(b) Make proper entries.
(c) Have team members report at proper firing point at the right time,
ready to fire.
(d) Assign team targets or firing orders to team members and control team
time among them. He may assign members at his own discretion and
may change firing order between stages.
(e) Check scores, sign score cards and make challenges.
(f) Enter all required data on Team score cards.
(g) Check Preliminary and Official Bulletins and Official Notices.
(h) Make protests.
(i) Collect awards.
(See Rules 2.10, 12.3, 12.5 and 12.7)
12.2 Team Coach-The Team Coach is the Team Captain's deputy,
performing such duties as the Captain may assign to him. The Coach serves as
Team Captain in the absence of the latter, and under such circumstances
becomes responsible for maintaining discipline within the team and for all
other responsibilities of the Team Captain. The Coach may assist team
members by:
(a) Calling shots
(b) Checking time
(c) Checking scoring
(d) Making sight adjustments
His or her voice and actions must be controlled so as not to disturb other
competitors. The Coach will not physically assist in loading. He may make
sight adjustments.
12.3 Team Entries-In team matches, the team officers, all firing members
of the team, and alternate firing members (if allowed by the match conditions
and provided by the team), team name, team category, team classification and
rifle division must be placed on the entry form before the first shot of the match
is fired. If the Captain or Coach is also a firing member he must be so named.
(See Rule 2.10 and 12.1).
12.4 Substitution of Alternates-If alternates are allowed and have been
named on the entry form, the Team Captain may substitute an alternate for a
firing member at any time before the firing member concerned has fired his
first shot of the match (sighting or record), notifying the Scorer and a Range
Officer accordingly. After a team member has fired his first shot, he may be
substituted for only in case of disabling emergencies such as accident or illness,
and then only if approved by the Chief Range Officer. All shots (completed
strings, in rapid fire) fired by the replaced shooter count; his replacement fires
only the uncompleted portion of the replaced shooter's course of fire.
12.5 Stations of Team Captain and Assistant-The Team Captain may 39
assist the coach in doping the wind at a position forward with the coach. In
Team Matches one assistant may be seated by the scorer to verify the team
score.
12.6 Station of Team Coach-In team matches, a Team Coach may take
a position on the firing line between or beside the competitor or competitors.
He cannot shift position nor shift the position of the competitors firing for the
purpose of forming a windshield for the firers. The Coach must confine himself
to the normal position of a Coach and his activities to those normally expected
of a Coach, but may make sight corrections and must control his or her voice
and actions so as not to disturb other competitors. The Coach will not
physically assist in loading.
12.7 Checking Scores in Team Matches--In team matches, it is permissible
for the Team Captain to have a designated individual, not then firing,
placed in such a position immediately behind the firing line so that he can check
the scores written on the score card by the Scorers. An individual so placed
shall not coach nor talk to the Coach, except regarding the scores posted to the
score card.