Our second practice (Monday AM) implemented our defensive philosophy. Again with such a short training camp we needed to keep things simple. From the moment this practice started it was clear that the athletes nerves had settled a bit and their comfort level was improving. It also became clear very quickly that our defense is going to be a major energy giver to our team. A number of these athletes are incredibly competitive and intense, almost to a fault at times as we began to notice a couple athletes going full out in warmup.
We try to talk about intensity and concentration levels in most of our drills, and we made a conscious effort to slow down a couple athletes in some scenarios. With a camp of this length it is really important that the athletes don't burn out or obtain overuse injuries on the second day. Since we are in try out mode until Tuesday night, the girls want to be high intensity all the time, so we are reminding them frequently of the when and where.
We started with basic 1 on 1 closeouts and we got after it. We had good communication and high intensity throughout the practice. This was very exciting to see!
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