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Coaching 2010-01
This page is a collection of work presented by PES364 class at Eastern Oregon University for Winter 2010
Risk Management Plan
One of the most important responsibilities a coach has to his or her student athletes is to create a safe environment to practice and participate in. It is estimated that over 2 million high school sports related injuries occur a year in the United states. No matter how good the coach’s intentions may be, he or she will not be able to successfully minimize injury to athletes unless there is a risk management plan in place. The following are steps that can be taken in order to minimize risk of injury to a student athlete. Read more »
Observe a Practice
Watch a complete practice and then provide reflection dialog about the practice. Read more »
Interview a Coach
Lee Louimeus
Interview a Coach
The coach that I interviewed was my one of my favorite coaches this guy to me is what I believe a coach should be like he is posed responsible, respectable, organized, manageable, understanding, He is a good motivator, and he puts his players first. This guy is Coach Mike Peters of Miami Beach Florida.
Lee Louimeus: So Coach Mike how long have you’ve been coaching and why did you become a coach? Read more »
A Risk Management Plan
The number one priority for coaches is to ensure the safety and well being of the students/athletes. Coaches have a number of responsibiliites or duties that help to accomplish this. These duties include, but are not limited to, the following items. Read more »
Brady Hazen's Risk Management Plan
Using ideas from the NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching (2009) class as well as the Popwarner.com Risk Management Manual (2004), I’ve made a list of ways that I plan on limiting injury risk to the athletes whom I will coach and how injuries will be handled. Read more »
Handling wins and losses
I am a very competitive person by nature. I do not know how I will handle these things as a coach yet because I haven’t handled it. I don't think losing while coaching 8 year olds will feel the same while coaching high school athletes. I do know however, that I don’t like to lose. I like to win, but who doesn’t! I hate it when kids act like a loss is just a loss and not a big deal. To me it is a big deal, and if it is not a big deal to my players, I take it as if they don't care about the sport or their team. You play a competive sport to compete, if you are out to just play and have fun, there are rec leagues. Never except failure. Read more »
Conditioning and strengh training program
Off season is the time for a great strength and conditioning program. But it isn’t something that we just want to quit once season starts. I think it’s a huge advantage to lift all off season and gain tons of muscle mass towards your sport, but you see in season sometimes people just quit and end up losing all they’d gained.
In season will not be as tough of a lifting program, it’ll be a matter of maintaining what you gained in the off season. You still need to keep lifting and keep conditioned, but the difference in off season is that you can push your players to the max and keep increasing weight and repetitions trying to make them better. I think once you get to season it’s time to just maintain what they got over the off season. Read more »
Softball practice Plan- hitting
The main practice with hitting practice is to maintain focus. A lot of time with shagging balls it can become very slow and boring and in turn practice becomes slow. You do not want to let practice become slow because players start to goof around instead of working hard. Kept your player focus and into the practice and you will have a successful practice.
3:30- Warm up and stretch
3:40- Base Running
2 singles
2 base hits, rounding
2 doubles
2 triples Read more »
Sample Softball Practice Plan
This is a high school softball practice plan. Practice starts at 3:30 and ends and 5:30.
3:30- Warm up and stretch
3:40- Warm up throwing
3:50- Ground ball drill (everyone) Read more »
Team Building Activity
An important characteristic of a good team is having team camaraderie. Everyone on the team doesn’t have to be best friends. Some players may not have anything in common and would never been friends outside of the team. I think this is fine you can’t expect everyone to be friends off the field, but as a coach it is important that you teach your athletes to get along and work together. In a real life situation you may not like your co-workers, but it is important to be able to work with each other. This is an important skill that is important for your athletes to learn. Read more »
We made it to Nationals
This week my team and I have been in Sioux City,Iowa. We made it to the ship (Nationals). We played blackhills on wednesday and lost by nine. I looked around in the locker room and saw my teammates crying,this made me cry. When you spend so much time with your team you become family and when a family member is hurt you are hurt. After the game my coach didn't yell at us or talk about individual mistakes in the game or how many turnovers we had at the end intstead she said, " Atleast we ended our season in Sioux City". She talked about what a great year we had and how proud she was of us, not how disapointed she was that we didn't win. Read more »
Interview with Matt Wolcott
Coach Wolcott is the head football coach as well as the PE/Health teacher at La Grande High School.
What skills are required on a day to day basis?
Offseason Team Building
One of the most important characteristics of a good team is team camaraderie. Many high school and collegiate athletic programs conduct various different team building activities to bring the team closer in the off-season, and to boost team morale. I thought of a team building program that I would conduct for a college football team. First I would have the team members write down different activities they would like to participate in as a team. I would take these activities and spread them throughout the off-season, and use them to bring our team together. Read more »
Work Out Schedule for the Off Season
Monday
Push Press 3x 6
Incline Bench 2x 6 and 2x 4
Shoulder Shrugs 3x 8
Lawn Mowers 3x 8
Plank Serious
Tuesday
Hang Cleans 2x 6 and 2x 4
Step Ups 3x 8
Good Mornings 3x 6
Forearms 4x 10
Biceps 4x 10
Abdominals
Thursday
Squat 1x 8, 2x 6 and 1x 4
DP Lunges 4x 6
Seated Plate Raises 3x 8
Shrugs 4x 8
Forearms 4x 10
Biceps 4x 10
Abdominals Read more »
Sell Out Crowd
When I was in high school and even now in college football, we would do certain things to get people to come out to the games. One thing we would do is to make sure everyone had a schedule, we would usually have a picture of the team and underneath we would have the schedule. We would sometimes sell them for a few bucks to earn some money for the program. Another thing is reading buddies, where we would read to students K-4th grade. The last one am going to mention is to have a kid’s camp before the season. This is a great way to raise money for your program and it is also a great way to get your program out into the community.
Official Dodgeball Rules
Growing up dodgeball has been one of my favorite recreational sports, but in my school district dodgeball was not allowed, because it was too hazardous to students. How many of you were not allowed to play dodgeball in your school? This is the official dodgeball rules from the NADA (National Amateur Dodgeball Association).
THE EQUIPMENT
The official ball used in tournament and league play will be an 8.25" rubber-coated foam ball.
THE GAME
The object of the game is to eliminate all opposing players by getting them "OUT". This may be done by:
1. Hitting an opposing player with a LIVE thrown ball below the shoulders.
Off season Skill building
Along with players working on their techniques, speed and weightlifting this is more of a team skill building. Over the summer it is important that you get your team into some sort of full contact football camp. Most of them are offered around late June early August. It is important to take your team to a camp like this because the offseason is a long time without playing. It is a great time to get the players back into their playbooks and work out the kinks that the team suffered from the previous year. That way when pre-season starts you are ready to roll on all cylinders. Another great oppurtunity for the skill players on offense and defense is 7 on 7 passing league. This is a time when the defense can work on their pass coverage and the offense can perfect their air attack. Read more »
Interview with Coach Scot Garrick
Coach Garrick was my high school basketball coach and has had a very successful career in coaching. He has been involved in coaching for over 20 years. I played for him, have coached with him and have learned a lot from him.
1) Why did you become a coach?
Coaching allowed me to continue to be involved in athletic competition and to teach life lessons to young people through high school sports.
2) How do you motivate your players?
I challenge my players to work harder than their opponents in their preparation for athletic contests. They are taught that hard work and attention to detail are the most important components to being successful not only in athletics but throughout their daily lives.
3) What does success mean to you? Read more »
Risk Management
In attempt to minimize my personal risks as a coach, in addition to preventing sport-related injuries and avoiding claims of negligence, I put together this list of duties I will pay attention to:
1. Providing adequate supervision: The health and safety of the team members are entrusted to my care, therefore I must provide adequate supervision to avoid foreseeable accidents and injuries. In doing so, I will never leave after a game or practice until all are safely picked up by parents or guardians.
2. Sound planning: I will carefully plan my practices and activities so players progress and learn new skills at a safe pace. I will not move too rapidly by forcing improvement. I will make written practice plans and keep them on record for the duration of the season. Read more »
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