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2 | WINTER 2024 BASKETBALL WORDS OF THE WEEK (WOWS) Coaches complete tasks at practice and turn in a WOW slip to an official at each game | |||||
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4 | CARD YOUTH SPORTS GOALS | |||||
5 | 1. Create better people by using youth sports as a vessel to teach life skills. We want to create ethical leaders and positive contributors. | |||||
6 | 2. Teach the fundamentals of sports, with progressions of skills, drills and game play throughout the season/program. | |||||
7 | 3. Make sure all players know that they are safe, they matter, they are supported, and they are connected to the team- regardless of any difference they may have. | |||||
8 | 4. Give all players a LOVE OF THE GAME that will spark an interest that will last a lifetime! | |||||
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10 | WORD OF THE WEEK | WHAT IT MEANS/PRACTICE DISCUSSION | TEAM CHALLENGE/ PRACTICE ACTIVITY | GAME DISCUSSION | RESOURCES | MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES |
11 | Goals Setting (no wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of October 28 Game on Saturday 11/2 | 1. Successful athletes set goals and have planned a road map to help them achieve their goals. 2. Goals should be written down, assessed regularly and adjusted if necessary. 3. Goals need to be challenging in order to be worthwhile. Goals can be focused on athletics, academics, health, personal development, careers, or anything else that is important to you. Goals are designed to help you get where you want to go. An aim or desired result; the object of a person's ambition or effort; the destination of a journey. 4. Triple impact competitors: Making yourself better, making teammates better, making the game better. | TO DO: Come up with 3 team goals for the season and write them down on a paper, and have every player sign the paper. Post the paper up or review it, at every practice. Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a picture! | Express to the players what the officials goals are for the season. | https://teach.truesport.org/goal-setting/ | “Begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey |
12 | Teamwork (red wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of November 4 Game on Saturday 11/9 | 1. Team members need to know and appreciate one another's roles in order to maximize success. 2. By improving your own skills, you are improving the team as well. 3. Teamwork is possible one when it becomes unimportant who receives the credit for winning. Teamwork is when two or more people work together to accomplish a common goal. A team won't make it very far if everyone doesn't agree to work together. Teams that work together usually do better than teams that rely on just one or two players. | TO DO: Team cheer. Work together with your team to create a team cheer Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a video! | Have them show off their teams cheers! | https://teach.truesport.org/teamwork/ | Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.- Michael Jordan Teamwork required some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. - Patrick Lencioni To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. - Mike Krzyzewski |
13 | Inclusion & Empathy (orange wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of November 11 Game on Saturday 11/16 | Inclusivity is about intentionally planning for the success of all! Everyone is our programs is appreciated for their unique traits and talents that they bring to their team, and to our league. Diversity makes us ALL better by providing opportunity to develop our skill as well as our leadership, compassion and tolerance. 1. Bullying is common in sports, so if you see bullying, be an "Upstanders" and tell your coach or another adult. 2. Trust your instincts. If you think the way somebody is being treated wrong, you are probably right. Be confident to be an "Upstander" and address the situation. 3. Despite differences, everybody deserves to be treated with respect. Have empathy for everyone's differences. There are three different categories of empathy: -Cognitive: is the ability to understand how a person feels and what they might be thinking. Cognitive empathy makes us better communicators, because it helps us rely information in a way that best reaches the other person. -Emotional: is the ability to share the feelings of another person. Shome have described it as "your pain in my heart." This type of empathy helps you build emotional connections with others. -Compassionate: goes beyond simply understanding others and sharing their feelings; it actually moves us to take action, to help however we can. | TO DO: Come up as a team with a "mistake ritual." It's okay to make mistakes on and off the field. Mistakes gives everyone the opportunity to learn. With this ritual, help your teammates and yourselves to "brush it off" and try again! Click here to see a quick video about mistake rituals. Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a video! | Have them show off their mistake ritual. | https://teach.truesport.org/bullying-prevention/ | We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.-Catherine Pulsifer We all want something to offer. This is how we belong. It's how we feel included. So if we want to include everyone, we have to help everyone develop their talents and use their gifts for the good of the community. That's what inclusion means - everyone is a contributor.- Melinda Gates Empathy is about finding echoes or another person in yourself.- Mohsin Hamid The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.- Meryl Streep" |
14 | TURN OVER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON'S WOWS >>> | |||||
15 | Respect (green wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of November 18 Game on Saturday 11/23 | 1. Treat others how you want to be treated. 2. Self-respect means being accountable and kind to yourself. 3. Even in tough sports situations, opponents and officials still deserve respect. Respect has two definitions: -Admiring (someone or something) deeply, as a result of their abilities, qualities or achievements. -Having regard for someone's feelings, wishes, or rights. “Honoring the Game” is a Positive Coaching Alliance principle about sportsmanship encouraging leaders, coaches, parents, and athletes to respect all aspects of their sport. The ROOTS of Honoring the Game is an acronym that stands for better respecting: Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates, and Self. | TO DO: Make a Thank You card or have a token of appreciation (thank you card, gatoraide, cookies, etc) for our game officials- have your entire team sign it! Present it to them at the next game. 1.Thank officials before and/or after every game. 2.Shake hands with the opposing coach before and/or after every game. 3.Shake hands with opponents after each game. Look each of them in the eye and say something positive, even after tough defeats. Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a picture! | Ask the players what ROOTS stands for | https://teach.truesport.org/respect/ | "Without opponents, we could have no game. A good opponent pushes us to do our best, so we should be grateful for our opponents." - Positive Coaching Alliance |
16 | NO PRACTICES OR GAMES THE WEEK OF 11/25-11/30. | |||||
17 | Sportsmanship (silver wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of December 2 Game on Saturday 12/7 | 1. Real winners act the same toward their opponent whether they win or lose. 2. Good sportsmanship also means respecting the rules and the officials. 3. How you act not how well you play, reveals your true character. Being a good sport involves striving for success while adhering to playing fair, honestly and with respect for the rules. Young people learn from watching others. There are 5 different dimensions to being a good sport: 1. Committing fully to sport participation. 2. Respecting the rules and officials. 3. Having concern for social conventions (such as being a good loser). 4. Respecting your opponents. 5. Avoiding having a "win-at-all-costs" mentality. | TO DO: Have all players sign the "Team Sportsmanship Prize" that is provided to you by CARD. At the end of the game, the player who displayed the best sportsmanship throughout the season so far will be awarded the "Team Sportsmanship Prize." GIVE OUT AFTER YOUR GAME THIS WEEK. Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a picture! | Discuss what being a good sport means. | https://teach.truesport.org/a-good-sport/ | “Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.” – Jim Courier |
18 | Love of the Game (tie-dye wristband) 1st-3rd Basketball: Week of December 9 Game on Saturday 12/14 (LAST GAME) | #DontRetireKid The number of kids playing sports keeps decreasing. Only 38% of kids ages 6 to 12 played team sports on a regular basis in 2018. What can we do to keep our players in the game? Reinforce all the Word of the Weeks, and make sure the last week of the season is FUN! Our ultimate goal is to have each player walk away with a lifelong #loveofthegame and the last game of the season will have a lasting impression on them. | TO DO: Make "Thank You" cards for all your players to hand out after your last game. Make sure your last practice is FUN! Some examples include having a themed practice (Hawaiian, crazy socks, crazy hair, etc), Play games for a majority of the practice, have it be "players choice" for what drills are run, etc. The biggest compliment as a coach is if a player continues playing! Kids won't remember their win/lose record by next year, but they will remember how their coach and team made them feel. Make sure you leave a positive, lasting impression on your players that emphasizes a LOVE OF THE GAME! We want the sports experience to be so positive and so encouraging, that every child will want to stay engaged in the sport/activity for life, regardless of whether they pursue it competitively or not. We reject the idea that sports are only worth playing if they can be played at a high level…we strive to develop physically literate kids who are compelled to play in their free time, and who are equipped to succeed at the competitive level if they choose, and who are inspired to teach and coach or officiate the next generation when their opportunity arrives. Email the Recreation Supervisor or Coordinator a picture! | Officials & staff will also be giving away the WOW Award to one player on each team (if applicable) that best presented WOW characteristics throughout the entire season. | https://www.aspenprojectplay.org/dont-retire-kid | "Sports for all, sports for life." - Aspen Institute "Win together, lose together, sports for life." - CARD Youth Sports |
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