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! :-)