What are the responsibilities and job description for the Traveling Guide position at Texas Sports Academy?
Description
Traveling Guide — Texas Sports Academy
As a Traveling Guide with Texas Sports Academy, you split your day between two things: in the morning, you guide our online-school student-athletes through their mastery-based academic work — making sure every kid hits their daily goals in the software. In the afternoon, you run live, in-person sports training with our kids at the facilities, parks or other local training sites.
What you will be doing
Traveling Guide — Texas Sports Academy
As a Traveling Guide with Texas Sports Academy, you split your day between two things: in the morning, you guide our online-school student-athletes through their mastery-based academic work — making sure every kid hits their daily goals in the software. In the afternoon, you run live, in-person sports training with our kids at the facilities, parks or other local training sites.
What you will be doing
- Running the morning virtual block with online-school student-athletes: monitoring their adaptive learning dashboards, holding 1:1 check-ins, and pushing them to hit 100% of their weekly academic goals.
- Leading the afternoon in-person training block for student-athletes ages 10–18 with high energy and clear standards.
- Mentoring a cohort of 10–20 student-athletes across both halves of the day, on screen in the morning and on the field in the afternoon.
- Communicating with parents every week on academic progress, athletic progress, and character development.
- Representing Texas Sports Academy at community events, recruiting visits, and partnership appearances in Texas markets.
- Delivering traditional academic lectures or teaching content — core academics are handled by mastery-based software in the morning block; your job is accountability, not instruction.
- Writing curriculum or building training programs from scratch — our frameworks are already built; you bring them to life.
- Managing admissions, tuition, or parent operations — program leads own those so you can focus on students.
- Coaching a single sport only — afternoon training works across sports and age groups, not as a sport-specific head coach.
- Sitting behind a desk the whole day — your day is split between a virtual session in the morning and live training in the afternoon.
- Ensure every student-athlete in your cohort hits 100% of their academic goals in the adaptive software every week.
- Create a high-standards, distraction-free environment across both the virtual morning block and the in-person afternoon training block.
- Build genuine relationships with kids so they accept coaching through resistance, fatigue, and self-doubt — whether on a Zoom or a field.
- Partner with academic staff so the morning academic block and afternoon athletic development actually reinforce each other.
- Bachelor's degree in any field.
- Based in Texas (non-negotiable — afternoon training is in-person).
- Ability and willingness to travel
- Valid Texas driver's license, clean driving record, and ability to pass a full background check.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States (no visa sponsorship).
- Experience in youth development or athletics: coaching, camps, or programs where you were responsible for motivating kids to hit specific goals.
- Former college or professional athlete, teaching credential, CSCS or equivalent S&C certification, or multi-sport background.
- Working knowledge of long-term athletic development (LTAD) frameworks.
- Experience running virtual or online programs for K–12 students (Zoom-literate, comfortable reading dashboards).