Week 4

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 team we are creating a better players for when they move up to the high school team. The middle school league is a no contact league. Getting all the players better in middle school will help prevent injuries when put into a high school environment where there is a lot of physical play. I feel like What we are doing will help prevent these injuries while also make a better hockey players.