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January 10, 2025 By Coach

Elite Basketball Certificates

Introducing the Elite Basketball Award Certificates. Celebrate your team’s hard work and achievements with these fun, stylish, and customizable award certificates. Perfect for players, coaches, and parents, these certificates make every moment of recognition feel special! Put some smiles on players’ and coaches’ faces! What’s Inside the Elite Basketball Certificates Pack? Customizable and Easy to Use: Why You’ll Love These Certificates: What Others Are Saying

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December 3, 2024 By Coach

How youth basketball coaches can benefit from videotaping

Value of videotaping in youth basketball

Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Michael O’Halloran’s Never Forget They’re Kids – Ideas for Coaching Your Daughter’s 4th-8th Grade Basketball Team. It addresses the benefits of videotaping youth basketball practices and games. The Value of Video Several times throughout the season, I find value in videotaping players and their play on the court. As a coach, it helps slow things down, and you can

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December 3, 2024 By Coach

New MVP Offseason Workouts: Baseball, Basketball and Softball

Baseball and Basketball offseason workouts

MVP Offseason Workouts is a new line of ebooks for young athletes ages 10 – 17. Baseball and basketball titles are currently available, and softball is scheduled to be published by the end of March. Each title provides a 6 or 9-week guided course on improving skills and getting in shape for the regular season. 18 Structured Offseason Workouts “We’ve packaged together 18 guided workouts

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December 3, 2024 By Coach

The Power of Practicing

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“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant Nobody lacks the will to win, but the winners are those who have prepared. Natural talent can only take you so far, but putting in the practice time is the only thing that will take you to the next level. Take any

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March 4, 2024 By Coach

8 Benefits of Structured Practice Plans

Structured Practice Plans for youth sports.

As a youth sports coach, are you working with structured practice plans? As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and this is especially true in sports. For basketball, softball, and baseball, where teamwork, coordination, and skill are paramount, having a well-structured practice plan can make all the difference in a team’s performance. Coaches who take the time to prepare detailed practice plans enhance their team’s

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The Coaching Benefits of Practice Plans

1.) Saves you time.

2.) Enables you to coach in the moment. You don't have to think about what to do next — it's already listed out for you.

3.) Work with a proven system. Our authors are coaches who have been there and done that. They know what works, the best order to teach skills and what doesn't work.

4.) Your players get better quicker. It's all about player development, but it's kind of fun to win a lot!

5.) Leap ahead on the learning curve. It took John Wooden over 10 years to produce his first champion.

Fortune favors the prepared. Find out more about sports practice plans for baseball, basketball, soccer and softball.

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“I coach 5th and 6th grade basketball and after winning only 3 games the previous 2 years combined, I began using your structured practice plans each week and now we are now one game away from the league championship!”

Mike Jadach
JV Coach Assumption School, Ansonia, CT

“Your basketball practice plans are fantastic! Many youth coaches are pressed for time and these organized practice plans help me to run an efficient practice with little preparation time needed. Not only are the plans efficient for coaches, but the drills have paid dividends for our players. I really appreciate the work put into these.”

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