4/30/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
10 Min
10 Min
5 Min	Water
10 Min
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Defensive Footwork Footwork - Defensive Stance Sideways Pokes Players get into a defensive stance Side Step and poke Get muscle memory on poke checking when side stepping Footwork - Front and Back Pedal Setup cones in two lines about 5 yards apart Player breaks down and approaches a cone as potential ball carrier Player drives their heel into the ground on the backpedal Footwork - Back Pedal Drop Step Setup cones in a zig zag pattern about 5 yards apart Player works on back pedaling and drop stepping to change direction Start at 50% work on toe to heel transistion Then go full speed
10 Min	Notre Dame Asterisk Drill A drill to help proper defense footwork muscle memory Build a plus sign with cones, each part of the plus sign is a quadrant Line up the kids in one line and have kids go through each quadrant of the plus sign The kid runs to the middle of the plus sign and uses that as a basis for where his man is The kid then practices sliding, half slides and recover, show and no go Have each kid work in each quadrant for 10-20 seconds After the first kid is done with the first quadrant have him rotate to quadrant 2 and another kid go into quadrant 1 On the 4th quadrant roll a ground ball to the kid, have him scoop and return it to the coaches feet
10 Min
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Ladders & Pushups Stride Run - Facing forward foot in every other rung Speed Run - Facing forward both feet in every rung Icky Shuffle - Facing forward, lateral step left to right into each square In & Out - Turn sideways both feed in each rung