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Drill/Activity
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Objective/Suggestion
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Time
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Bring it in
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Gather the team to discuss practice plans for the day
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5 minutes
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Some warm up
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Warm up stretch legs, arms, shoulders, neck & midsection
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5 minutes
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Coaches Instruction - Cradling
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Basic instruction on the fundamentals
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2 minutes
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(Drill 1) Individual cradling practice
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More experienced girls try with opposite hand
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2 minutes
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(Drill 2) Running the Square
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Comfort cradling with both hands
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3 minutes
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Coaches Instruction - Ground Balls
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Basic instruction on the fundamentals
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2 minutes
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(Drill 3) Individual ground balls
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Focus on the basic movements required
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Experienced girls try with opposite hand
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3 minutes
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(Drill 4) Ground Ball Tag
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Ground balls under pressure
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5 minutes
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(Drill 5) Ground Ball Blob Passing
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Ground balls & moving without the ball
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5 minutes
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Coaches Instruction - Passing & Catching
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Basic instruction on the fundamentals
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5 minutes
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(Drill 6) Baseball Throw
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Have the girls throw to the coaches the first two practices so that everyone can focus on the throwing and not catching wild throws.
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Basic motion of throwing an object
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3 minutes
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(Drill 7) Partner passing
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(everyone should have a new partner each practice)
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Passing & Catching
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7 minutes
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(Drill 8) Shooting shuttle
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Catching, Passing & Shooting
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7 minutes
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Water break
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2 minutes
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Coaches Instruction - Positioning - Teach the hot-spots
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Instruction on the locations of A-E behind the cage and along the 8m arc
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8 minutes
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(Drill 8) Running to hot-spots as they are called out
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The first week have them run without sticks so they can concentrate on where to run rather than trying not to drop the ball
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Getting players familiar with hot spots
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5 minutes
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Water Break
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Coaches Instruction - Review of positions
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offense & defense
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attack, middie & defender
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Teaching the basics of defensive positioning
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"not chasing your girl"
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Break up and have separate coaches teach each position and have girls rotate through?
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Teaching who belongs where, off-sides, the job of each position, etc.
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20 minutes
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Bring it in/wrap up
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90 minutes
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