Batesville Soccer Club

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12

May, 2016

Practice Info

Practice Plan # 1 Thursday May 12, 2016 Asbury Park (Oakhurst North Subdivision) - If we are not able to get the backstop nearest the parking lot there is a second one all the way in the rear of the park that I will try and get. Since most of you have no idea who I am I will wear a #8 Cubs Andre Dawson Jersey so you can spot me. 6:30 pm – 730pm or so Welcome: · Intro / Meet kids and parents · Handout paperwork to parents (Rules, Picture info. Etc) · Go over Team Goals, Expectations and Team Rules · ****Looking for a volunteer to handle the scoring book for each game (this includes tracking pitch count. There is a section in the scoring book to easily mark it off. Great job for mom, dad, grandparent or older sibling. I’d appreciate it. My preference would be to focus on the players during the game rather than the book. Let me know if anyone is interested. If you don’t know how, anyone can learn – Just Google baseball scoring book and you’ll figure it out. · After game snacks – I am not interested in organizing this but if the parents want to organize a rotation on this, feel free I am not going to be involved in setting this up. I would just assume have the kids focus on the game and not on the snack afterwards. Warm ups - I will start every practice with a short warm up session. Starting with practice # 2, I will pick a different kid to lead warm ups so they have fun with it. · Light Calisthenics – jumping jacks, push-ups, squats, shoulder circles, neck rolls, etc. · Light stretching · Ball toss – Play catch with a teammate for a few minutes to loosen up Practice # 1: By design, I intend to keep the first practice to about 1 hour and I plan on keeping it simple. Simple works well for me. I am guessing it works well for 10 & 11 year old boys too. This 1st practice will be a defensive practice. We will save batting for the next practice. · Identify pitchers and catchers. These are the two positions that not every child will play. Every kid interested in becoming a pitcher or catcher will have the chance to be part of the rotation but there is no guarantee I will use them in these roles. We will evaluate each interested kid and have them pitch and catch with no batter and see how they do. · Infield Practice – Need an assistant for this. Basically toss ground balls to the infielders at each infield position and then have them throw to or step on first base. This should be done at a fairly rapid pace to get as many repetitions in as possible. Every kid should get a few reps at every infield position in this drill. I will demonstrate my vision for this at practice. We will work all of the kids at the same base starting with first base, then second etc. They will line up, do the drill, then move to the back of the line & repeat. · Outfield Practice – Need another assistant for this. Toss fly balls to the players one boy at a time so we have no collisions, then have them throw back to the coach to simulate “hitting the cutoff man”. Back in line, repeat. · Switch – We will run the outfield, infield and pitcher catcher evaluations simultaneously. We will rotate when necessary. · Run the bases – Kids love running bases – we will close each practice with some fun base running drills. Hand out uniforms - Kids will get jersey numbers in this manner per Wheatland instructions: Shortest kid gets smallest number, tallest kid gets highest number – Simple. The uniform consists of Jersey, Hat and socks. Pants, shoes, glove are the parents’ responsibility – NO METAL CLEATS! Remember to have kids bring gloves and some water or sports drink. – No bats are needed this for this practice. *** On a side note I have personally reserved a batting cage at the Wheatland’s performance center on Liberty AVE for this Saturday from 12p-1p to work with my son Matthew. This is not in the large building West of the Soccer fields. It is East of the soccer fields in the business complex that run parallel to Liberty. This is not part of the organized practice but I would be happy to work with up to 3 other boys BUT NO MORE THAN THAT if they are interested. More than 4 kids will be counterproductive as only 1 kid at a time can bat. 4 kids gets each one of them 15 minutes each of batting reps. 12 kids in an hour is pointless. So the first three interested kids can join me. Just let me know if you want to have them join us.