14U – 60 Mins #12

Team Name
14U – 60 Mins #12
Location
Date
11/28/2016
Start Time
04:00 PM
End Time
05:00 PM
EARLY ACTIVITY DRILL STARTS AT 3:45 (BELOW GOLD)
Early Activity Ground Ball Reps – No Throw and Flip stopwatch - timer 15 Minutes
Ground Ball Reps - No Throw + Flip is an infield drill used during Station Instruction or as an Early Activity.  One coach can easily entertain an entire...Read More
notes Notes:
Free throws? Backhand flips? Finger-rolls?
PRACTICE STARTS AT 04:00 PM (BELOW BLACK)
WARM UP Dyn Warm Up 14U #2 stopwatch - timer 10 Minutes
~ SEE "EXECUTION KEYS" BELOW FOR AGE-SPECIFIC SUGGESTION LIST ~ The Dynamic Warm Up is today's warm up routine.  Gone are the days of standing in a...Read More
notes Notes:
Try it backwards... add an overhead reach... speed up Carioca feet.
THROW Quick Catch Competition stopwatch - timer 10 Minutes
Quick Catch Competition is an execution drill to finish the throwing segment.  It helps to train throwing accuracy, baseball athleticism (hands working...Read More
notes Notes:
Catch play into competition: Long-Toss-Comp & Quick-Catch-Comp
Stations (Groups rotate halfway through block)
Pickoff Party
stopwatch - timer 12 Minutes
Picks to 1st / 2nd / 3rd & Pitchouts to Home (if numbers allow)
No Goals Competition
stopwatch - timer 13 Minutes
Teams = 3 vs. 3. 5 swings and switch. Try for 2 innings.
  WATER BREAK (5min)  
BASERUNNING Fastest Man Standing stopwatch - timer 10 Minutes
Fastest Man Standing (FMS) involves a combination of sprint work and competition.  The sprint variations help to hold the focus of athletes and shift...Read More
notes Notes:
Sprint-Work first... then Fastest-Man-Standing.
MENTAL / FINISH Bucket Free Throws stopwatch - timer 5 Minutes
Bucket Free Throws is a fun competition to finish practice with.  It is, as it sounds, the simple challenge of making a baseball into a bucket.  Just...Read More
notes Notes:
Find some quarters. It's time to teach Life's Lesson on getting paaaaaiiiid.
PITCH & CATCH Freeze Drill: #1-2-1-3 stopwatch - timer 0 Minutes
Pitcher's Freeze Drill #1 - 2 - 1 - 3 - Video not yet available.  Consider this text description from Dan Keller's book Coaching the Beginning Pitcher :...Read More
notes Notes:
Load baby load!! Forwards and backwards. Feel the burn in the back leg.

"Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to."

– Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)

DETERMINATION

  •  The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure
  •  Tough times never last, but tough people do
  •  What are we determined to do as a team?