Manager of Girl's Basketball Team: Day 2

"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4 And endurance develops strength of character..." -Romans 5:3,4

Every Wednesday is "frustration day" which basically pushes every girl to their limits. Today we started off by doing a mile run (5 laps around the football field under ten minutes) and then warms up which are: 10 yards scissor skips/paper clips/ figue 4/lunges (fwd & rev)/Lateral lunges/monsters/calf bounce/ Iron cross/ hurdler stretch/calf stretch all on the football field since the football guys didn't have practice today. After that we moved on too the outside courts and throughout the drills I put on boxing gloves and pushed the girls or "hit" the girls while they dribbled the ball so they understand how it is during real games. Later I set the cones up for the girls to do the Huggins Box Out: Breakdown, basically the girls sit down back to back and when the coach (in this case me) yell "swim," the girls have to get up (still touching each other's back) and push the other person passed the cone. After that we did other ball handling drills and the coach had some girls and I had the others and we just worked on throwing the ball to them and having them react to it by catching the ball in the air, holding it tight (so we went up to them and it the ball and if the ball left their hands they have to do 5 push ups), then they worked on pivoting forward and backwards, and lastly shooting. Lastly we did clearance so we stretched everything before going home.

P.S.

Considering the fact that Southlands is a Christian high school I've decided too use the bible quote Coach Johnson uses before practice, unless I like the other quote or catchy sayings he uses, but for now I think i'll use the bible references.

And no pictures today because there really was no time or extra person to help take pictures, next time! :-)

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?

My working EQ is definitely working. I have three that I'm thinking about. My 1st one: how would you coach a varsity softball team well enough to make it to make it to CIF (California Interscholastic Federation), my 2nd one is: what do CIF softball girls look like, and lastly: how is a coach a reflection on how CIF girl's are suppose to look like?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.
I'll go with the one that's on my blog, for now until I can figure out what my main one is.

EQ: How would you coach a varsity softball team well enough to make it to CIF?

• Being committed to something helps the person improve in the subject they learning or preforming. Wanting to do something is different from actually following through with it. Going to practice to improve on a sport is what drives the coach just like the teachers are driven to teach when all of us come to class prepared and ready to listen. If the teacher isn't committed and the students (players) aren't committed then what do you have? A group of people. Nothing more. Commitment on both end are really important because without each other they won't go anywhere.

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

The fact that my mentor and independent component are different sports which means different perspectives, helped me see the similarities in coaching but also the differences. The way each coach is different is the way they the teach the drill or run practices but also how strict they are.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

My mentor is Jennifer Dorado and she is the La Puente High School varsity softball coach. She has taken her softball girls to CIF so she has experience on what to do to get there.

Manager of Girl's Basketball Team: Day 1

 "Be quick but don't hurry" -John W.

 

I went to practice today not knowing exactly what I would do as manager but let me tell you, being manager was so stressful! First we started off with the weight room and the weight room is taken very serious for the basketball girls because a lot of them are weak and don't like to push themselves so today coach Johnson made me show the girls how to do the workouts and then walk around and help girls who needed it. The picture of the girls on the basketball court is a picture of coach showing the girls the new "Traffic" drill. It's basically when everyone is running in the court to get the ball into the opposite side they started on with certain obstacle's to overcome. The picture of the weight room is a picture of Southland's weight room AKA girls basketball "second home." And last picture of the paper is a picture of how our workout schedules will be formatted and posted. These change weekly or sometimes more, depending on what the coach has in mind or how the girls progress is going. Once we were out on the court, coach made me run a couple of drills he believed were easy enough for me to run. Those drills were: Grass Lunge Complex/Kneeling Chest Pass (which helps strengthening the girls arm muscle so the basketball becomes a light enough object to toss or catch) and the South Bump Breakdown (basically helps the girls determine when they are helping their teammate by telling them to "bump" because they're guarding the person). Overall today didn't sound stressful but being in charge of a group of girls is actually really frustrating because they don't always listen and always complain. I'm looking forward to seeing them succeed in their future games.

P.S.

Coach Johnson starts off every practice with a catchphrase or quote so the quote on my independent component post will be from something someone said or quoted that caught my attention. 

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

"Live and play each day with no regrets! Leave it all out on the field! Don't wait for tomorrow when you still have today to be a great-play for today!" 

-Marino

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

Considering my topic is Coaching a Softball Team (high school girls), I would need to be on a team with girls around my age and unfortunately to be in a softball team I was suppose to tryout over the summer but over the summer this topic wasn't my original plan. However thanks to Purther for giving me suggestions, one of them being that I could be in any girls team or shadow because my true topic is coaching and not playing softball. I plan to do my hours at Southland's where I am manager of the girls basketball team.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

In my independent component log there is a "coach's comment(s)" and "picture" section and those two are where I plan to show evidence. My log worksheet will actually be printed out because every time I go to practice I will write down the activities we are doing that day but also the coach's comments column will actually be written by the coach(s). The coach's comment(s) will help me improve and see what as a coach, he will write to help a player become better.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
By being manager of the girls basketball team I I believe that I'm going to get a good idea of how coaches are similar in actions and words with the help of the coach, Mr. Johnson. Both softball and basketball are contact sports so coaching wise it won't be as different as it would have been if it was softball and volleyball. I will still be attending softball practices will my mentor Jennifer but it will be just helping her out with anything or filling in for certain girls that are absent and not really being on the team.
Going back to being manager of the team, what that means is I will be helping out with drills as an extra person defender and a bunch of other task to make it harder and more game like for the girls. Mr. Johnson said I would also be able to play games if a girl wasn't able to make it.