Managing Coaches and Your Roster

Build the roster before assigning roles. The students in Roster become the choices available for default and pairing-specific assignments.

Add a coach

Open your team and select Coaches.
Select Add coach.
Enter the coach’s name and email address.
Select Add coach.

The added coach must already have a MockScores account. The Status column shows whether the coach has joined.

The team owner cannot be removed. Other coaches can be removed from the team. Only an organizer using the team’s organizer view can select Make Owner and transfer ownership to a joined coach.

Control notifications

Joined coaches have a notification toggle in the Coaches table. Select the icon to enable or disable that coach’s team notifications. Pending invitees do not have a notification setting until they join.

Add students

Select Roster.
Enter the student’s name.
Choose the student’s pronouns, or select the custom option and enter them.
Select Add.

Every student needs a name and a pronoun selection. The student’s name and pronouns may appear on scorer ballots when the student is assigned to a role.

Use Remove to delete a student after confirming they should no longer be on the roster.

Complete custom roster fields

The organizer may add extra columns, such as grade level or competition experience. Text fields accept text and number fields accept numeric values.

Enter each value in the student’s row, then move out of the field to save it. Leaving a field blank removes its saved value.

Contact the organizer if a required roster column is missing or uses the wrong type; coaches cannot change the column definitions.

Save default call orders and roles

At the bottom of Roster, select one of:

Set Prosecution Call Order & Assignments or Set Plaintiff Call Order & Assignments, depending on the case type.
Set Defense Call Order & Assignments.

In the setup window:

Choose a different witness for each call position.
Assign a student to each role that your team expects to use.
Select Save.

The available positions and roles come from the tournament’s witness and scorecard configuration. Swing witnesses are marked as swing witnesses.

Defaults provide a starting point for every pairing. Pairing-specific choices can override them until the round is locked. If no pairing-specific values are saved, the organizer’s lock action copies the defaults into the round.

Preparation checks

The Overview page identifies missing default assignments, call orders, and pairing-specific preparation. Before a round is locked, confirm that:

Every competing student is on the roster.
Organizer-defined roster fields are complete.
Default assignments cover both sides your team may represent.
Default call orders use the correct number of witnesses.
The published pairing has been reviewed separately.