Radnor Middle School Hockey Blog

This week we started writing a letter to our mentor Jay Von czoernig. As the head coach of the team he would help us create practice plans, help the players learn, and with his high coaching degree help us become better at coaching evedently helping the kids become better. Our letter to him is not finished but is been edited by Dr swinehart. This week along with writing our letter we got assigned follow someone else’s blog. In the project we’ve worked on a little bit of research on how young middle schoolers learn and progress. We have found that most kids are visual learners and demonstrating all of the trails with you first to the kids helped them tremendously. A normal practice consists of 45 minutes of skating drills to help the kids. The last 30 minutes of practice we usually spend on small games that put them in game like situations or shooting drills. We are going to try and keep that format file creating our practice but change the drills. Lastly along with the middle school te...

The past few weeks have been hard. First of all we got our blog approved and needed to start working on the next steps. The next few steps we’ve come up with are doing research on how kids learn and actually getting on the ice with the kids and start practicing. Many of the kids barely know how to skate but some are already at a relatively advanced level. Finding out how these two groups of kids learn and each making them better as individuals and as a team can benefit the game. Secondly we also have found a mentor my father Jay Von czoernig. He would be a good mentor because he it was first of all my father and second for the head coach of the team. What we’ve done so far is had practice layouts drawn up and showed our mentor them for approval. We are working towards running our first on ice practice but for now we are just helping out. Our practices consist of power skating a System of drills helping kids get better at skating, And shooting the puck. Lastly thought of ideas to do a s...