Tim and Andrew, 

Here is the proposed vision for our 17 practices - open to course corrections, requests for details, anything really...let me know.

Ultimately, encourage the girls to increase self-awareness of individual strengths and weaknesses. Give them tools to help them address those within a growth mindset.

• Positive touches and communication

• Attitude and effort

• I am a difference maker

Must limit confusion & noise - we need to have a shared language and value system. 

Practice Focuses:

Injury Prevention

• Dynamic and Static Stretch each practice (Do we have a parent volunteer who could run this peice for us? A female that could lead the girls in stretching?)

• Agility, strength and cardio training each practice

Team needs to learn to identify individual opponents weakness and change their individual and team shape to give our team an advantage

• Learn to flow from 5 out to 4 - 1 to 3-2 and back

• Identify individual and team mismatches and tendencies - seek out the patterns and learn to create advantages

• Use games

• Not be fearful of running out of time - we slow things WAAAAY down as needed

• Would like to incorporate video, whiteboard, and classroom as needed

Increase confidence & Individual Skills

• Provide autonomy for athletes to train on an area they see a need for. (we need to be prepared with drills and games)

• We also provide structure on skills we see their need for

• Stack fundamentals as a way to train individual skills

• Encourage athletic creative moves, one-handed passes, underhand rainbow pass over tall opponent, tweens, "wrong" hand layups, etc...

• Use self competitions to show progress in a skill

Keep them coming back

• Practices are focused and fun

• Coaching is encouraging and honest

• We carve time for on-going Tournaments, 3v3, 2v2, etc...

• Give unstructured time