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Through the work of the committee and Jeff’s collaboration with other key leaders in the state, the VHSL Executive Committee approved a coach education mandate by a vote of 21 to 3 on May 7. The mandate requires "all" coaches take the VHSL education component. Additionally, the mandate requires all first-time coaches and non-faculty coaches to complete the classroom courses on Coaching Principles and Sport First-Aid or the VHSL Basic Coaches Education Course delivered online. Such broad ...
As a coach, the challenge is for you to determine how much strength is required for certain skills and how to best train your athletes to develop and maintain the strength needed This is an exerpt from Sport Physiology for Coaches by Brian J. Sharkey and Steven E. Gaskill. Optimal muscular fitness and strength for athletes
This approach can be useful in teaching the technical skills of softball, but unless coaches shape, focus and enhance the scrimmages or drills, the athletes may not successfully translate the skills to game situations, leaving coaches to ponder why their team practices better than it plays. The games approach emphasizes the use of games and minigames to provide athletes with situations that are as close to a real game as possible (Alan G. Launder, Play Practice, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics,...
