Families and Players: Welcome to week 4 of the summer session. I am going to call myself officially organized with regard to the schedule. After discussions with a few players we have decided that maintaining our own early evening WEIGHT ROOM TIMES combined with OPEN GYMS would be the best instead of going to open lifts. Please see the bullet below and schedule for updates. The change was made so that I can attend and be the leader of the strength and conditioning sessions to make sure the lifts are done correctly and I can always adjust on the fly and keep it fresh and move with players directly into open gyms. If players can't make the sessions then the weight room will be available 8-10am, 3-5pm and my lift cards will be available. We are introducing a new app this Friday for players. They will use this as a check in and management tool of their conditioning and strength training. Athlete performance will have it ready Friday. I will see all incoming Frosh tomorrow night at 7:30-9 for their first lift. We have added a new piece to the Monday lifts: Skills. Following the strength and conditioning sessions on MONDAYS players will go through ball-handling skills next to the weight room. These skills sessions will be intense cardio ballhandling, stance, and controlled core 30-40 minute workouts. Students will improve footwork, footspeed, hand eye coordination, and touch. On Wednesdays and Sundays we will combine strength and conditioning with OPEN GYMS. Wednesday nights open gym is 8:30-10pm: come and play, shoot, work on skills. Alumni will come and compete in the summer with the boys. We are moving all Friday open gyms to Sunday mornings. All but one open gym is at 9am-11am followed by WR from 11-12. Please see calendar for changes. We made this change due to having too many tourneys on Fridays and we want 3 workouts still. Come in and get shots, skills, or play and then hit the weights or just come and lift and shoot, but come in. My expectation is that if you want to be a changer of a program you have to be a part of the solution: my solution to increasing the program is to increase opportunities in strength and conditioning, skills training, and playing together. Please see the schedule located at our Saber Hoops website or via the google drive link in this email. http://saberhoops.weebly.com/off-season-training.html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AjnBs190XnsOOpKk0PdhkEzSOAPzWNznW6Iv4TTRNmE/edit#gid=698415455 MWF: WEIGHT ROOM and OPEN GYM WORKOUT Please see schedule but for the most part: MONDAYS: WR 7:30-8:30 WR SKILLS: 8:30-9:15 WEDNESDAYS: WR 7:30-8:30 OPEN GYM: 8:30-10pm ALL LEVELS SUNDAYS: OPEN GYM: 9-11am WR: Anytime 9-12pm LEAGUE PLAY: M: Incoming frosh have league at South Milwaukee. See attachment. Generally from 530-630 game times. T: League at Brookfield Central (JV 530/620) (V 7:10 / 8pm) TH: League at Wisconsin Lutheran College (JV 530/630) (V 730/830) Tournaments please see schedule---some weekends. LAST WEEK: Our Varsity Gold went 1-1 at the Brookfield Central league losing to Greenfield and defeating Nathan Hale. Team Varsity BLACK went 1-1 at South Division on Tuesday and 0-2 against two quality teams at WLC: West Allis Central and Brookfield East. The Incoming Frosh had a good showing at Arrowhead round robin beating the host team, losing to Sussex, and beating Mukwonago Friday night. Many of the incoming freshman have helped us out at the JV level as well. Keep working hard. They are starting to understand the the concept of the culture we are putting together. THIS WEEK: We have a very busy week. We had games last night at South Milwaukee for the first week of Summer League-Frosh went 1-1, taking one on the chin vs the Rival OC. Next week we strike back! Tuesday BC league for JV and Var Gold, Wednesday first lift of summer with new program at HS and Open Gym, WLC League for JV and VAR BLACK, then two tourneys Friday at Monona Grove and Saturday at South Division in the morning for Var Gold followed by Sunday Open Gym and Conditioning. SUMMER CAMPS: I am looking for 6 volunteers per week from the JV and Varsity teams?
New registration deadline: July 1st. July 11-15th 3rd and 4th grades July 18-22nd 5th and 6th grades July 23rd: Father/Son Camp July 25-29th: Full Day 7th and 8 grade camp See link: http://www.franklin.k12.wi.us/athletics-activities-sp-26021/timothy-matheus/government-articles/summer-camps.html PODOLL'S POINTS First, the summer season is about helping build a connection to the program. One of my students left this summer saying she was only qualified to work at fast food places. I said to her, "What qualifies you for your job is your qualifications. If you are unsatisfied with what you are qualified for, then you have to put quality into your work and develop better qualifications." I mention this because this summer is about developing your qualifications. We have opportunities for your athletes to put in quality work so that they are qualified in the fall. Second, I am enjoying working with all the students this summer and meeting new parents and seeing ones from the past year. I am the high school coach, but in the summer I am the agent for the FYBBA, however, we are all Sabers. The incoming freshman get to see the toughness and dedication of the program. The JV team gets to build off their success and role right into summer continuing the process. Both Gold and Black teams growing together as we replace 8 seniors and learning the culture and concepts and basketball terminology and my quirks. We have continuity of play on the floor, now, we need to build continuity off the floor. For all the new families coming in I have linked our expectations for players and protocol for addressing situations when they have questions or concerns. If you have questions or concerns please come to myself or one of my staff members. We should be your first line, and I am really open, approachable, and willing to listen. Last, I would like to inform you three focus points this summer by our coaches: IMPACT PLAYERS LIVES, PREPARE OUR TEAM, and BUILDING BELIEF IN OUR SYSTEM. We may not be their parent, but we as coaches are in a position to be positive and important people to your kids. We will be people of integrity and hope your athletes seek out guidance from us now and forever after they leave the program. We have beliefs in toughness, hard work, truth, loyalty, and responsibility. We will always treat your players with respect and help them feel important equally to all other teammates. No role is too little. When you are a part of the program you are a complete part. That coach-player relationship is crucial in building those traits listed. Communicating with the players as a group, one-on-one, and keeping a door open to concerns helps us learn to trust each other and be a unified program and community. Thanks everyone! Have a great week!!!
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