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Ideas for youth play for 3-11 year old athletes, who should be playing in teams of two or four.
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Ideas for youth play for 3-11 year old athletes, who should be playing in teams of two or four.
The YMCA of the USA updated this skills contest with USA Volleyball staff help for use during their volleyball centennial celebrations.
On October 22, 2012, Jim Coleman would be turning 80 years old. His passing a over a decade ago, in August of 2001, meant heaven picked up one of the best volleyball minds in the world to ever walk into a gym. At our USA Volleyball offices, all our historical material is in a large library area
I just finished one of those books that I feel all readers of this Growing the Game Together blog should also take the time to read. Then re-read. Long ago, then US Olympic team coach Terry Liskevych, told me of a study on talent, done with the National Football League general managers at that time. As I recall it now, they were asked what was the one thing an NFL team needed to win the Super Bowl. Since I work to teach socratically, I then ask coaches what they think the NFL GMs said. Answers such as “Communication…” and “Teamwork…” and many others pour in, but what over 25 of the 32 NFL GMs said was “Talent.”
A personal list of movies, in no particular order, that might be great for team bonding and inspiration.
Over 20 years ago I was working with the University of Colorado program, working with several club teams to merge them into a single varsity program.
I traveled some this summer doing mostly weekend clinics around the USA primarily for coaches and PE teachers at the youth level.
This is one of my favorite “words” ever, and given the economic situation impacting us all, leads us into the reason for this grow the game set of options – for I see things as now here, never nowhere.
Espiritu Santo…Wrecks to Rainforest — Vanuatu, Discover untouched seclusion and beauty…that is what Carte de Luganville – the map of this town says.
I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked.