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.