It is official, basketball has begun for the Delbrook Steve Nash Youth League in North Van. On Saturday I held my first of what will be 2 Referee Clinics this season and I am excited. Though they were an extremely quiet group, I believe this will be another successful season. 18 Rookies attended my Referee program and many of the Senior Referees were there to "help".
The time went quickly, atleast for me. The attendees may have some different to say on the subject. Interestingly, less girls showed up this year. Usually it's almost evenly divided, but this year it's mostly guys. I am very excited to get to the practical training component and developing my new referees, as well as challenging the Juniors and the Seniors.
I'm sure it is going to be another season full of eventful moments, good laughs (those hilarious gr 4/5's) and a frustrating moment or two with the gr 8/9 girls. All in all, I am excited about a new season full of possibility. I am done recruiting for this year.....but by November I will be keeping an eye out for next years Superstar Potentials.
Our first games are this weekend, but we stagger the start of each age group, so it's only the 8/9's I have to worry about-and even then, I coach a gr 8/9 girls team, so I will be there.
Yes, it has been a busy week. The Ref Clinic was on Saturday, on Monday I received my Team Roster for my 8/9 Girls and we had our first practice on Tuesday. I really enjoy working with the Referees, but coaching is where my heart really is. I love coaching. I have 11 girls on my team and as usual, mostly guards, which means I have to get at it and quickly turn a few of those guards and undecided's into Post Players. We covered most of the basics in practice and I taught a new hi-level drill that they will be using to warm up with.
The team has a lot of potential, but they need to pick up their work habits a little if they want to survive high school try-outs. I am really looking forward to coaching the team and seeing how we do. Of course we have a tough act to follow, my team last year went undefeated....not that i expect the same results, it's mostly a different team and I don't want to put that much pressure on them.
But I do expect them to work hard and do their absolute best. I have expectations that are just as high for myself, or even higher.
Thus I have ordered some new books to read....1-4 Motion Offense and Kim Mulkey's Book (the Baylor Women's Coach) . Just a little light reading as the season begins.
It was such a treat to be able to watch Baylor play up here against SFU and even better, a couple of moments to chat with Coach Kim. I sat in the stands with the Baylor Crowd and I don't for a second feel bad about that. I wasn't being disloyal to my own "hometown" team, I was celebrating the competition for coming all this way on a long weekend to play. lol. It really was a fabulous way to really "kick off" the start of the Steve Nash Youth Basketball Season.
I also went back to SFU the following day to see LSU. Interestingly, while LSU (Baton Rouge) was up here playing against SFU, UBC and TWU, Hurricane Gustav was battering the city of Baton Rouge. Sitting there watching the game and seeing a constant blur of Purple and Gold made it almost a little difficult to concentrate. I was thinking about New Orleans and checking CNN on my phone often for updates on the storm, worried about my friends who had chosen to stay in New Orleans to help after the storm.
And with that, I am off to finish reading my "Geno" book, for the 2nd time-looking for a little inspiration from my all-time favorite College Coach. I want to finish the book before my other 3 books arrive next week. Atleast I have a lot of reading to keep me entertained on the buses as I travel around the city for Basketball.
Basketball....the season has begun....yayyyy!
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