AAU offering Free Coach Clinic

Received some information that I thought was useful to pass along to my viewers.

The AAU National Office is happy to announce to its members, FREE Coaches' Education for all AAU Non-Athletes. This exciting program will be administered by Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), using their Double-Goal Coach® Online Course, which helps coaches pursue their first goal, winning, while pursuing the second, more-important goal of teaching life lessons through sports.

To get more details, click here.

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Get a Grant for your Hockey Organization

The Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Community Grants are now open! You can help your hockey association earn one of the $2,500 grants up for grabs this spring.

Since USA Hockey and Liberty Mutual Insurance partnered together, we’ve been able to award 13 hockey associations a $2,500 grant. First step:

Go to ResponsibleSports.com/Grant... to register your association. Deadline to enter is May 31, 2011See More

Responsible Sports Community Grants | Youth Sports Grants

ResponsibleSports.com

Twice a year, we award 20 $2,500 youth sports grants. Start helping your team earn a grant today!

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2-1 Pass and Go

Drill:

1. Place a group of players at each end and Defensive players in the middle
2. First player leaves and skate hard to the other end and turns around the Cone
3. At the turn, Player in the corner passes and jumps into the run for the 2-0 break.
4. Defense in middle circle works to break up the play
5. 2nd Player in line leaves after the first and skates down to other end and around the cone (they do not join rush, but are setting up the next break-out)
6. Repeat Step 2 and follow through the drill again
Focus:
1. Teach Offensive players to come back to help out and receive pass from man in the corner.
2. Good passing in 2-1
3. Player without puck needs to hustle up to get into the play

Notes:

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2-0 Pass and Go

Drill:

1. Place a group of players at each end
2. First player leaves and skate hard to the other end and turns around the Cone
3. At the turn, Player in the corner passes and jumps into the run for the 2-0 break.
4. 2nd Player in line leaves after the first and skates down to other end and around the cone (they do not join rush, but are setting up the next break-out)
5. Repeat Step 2 and follow thru the drill again
Focus:
1. Teach Offensive players to come back to help out and receive pass from man in the corner.
2. Good passing in 2-0
3. Player without puck needs to hustle up to get into the play

Notes:

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3 Man Weave

Drill:

1. Players start at one end. 1 in each circle and 1 in the middle
2. Middle man passes the puck to one wing and follows the pass.
3. Man receiving the pass skates toward the middle and hits the opposite wing
4. Passer follows Pass, Receive skates toward middle and passes across
5. Players continue until they reach the other end and shoot on goal.

Focus:
1. Good passing
2. Movement both by the passer and receiver
3. This will help them work on moving left to right as they look to pass or are open looking for a pass.

Notes:
This is a take on an old Basketball drill I used to run.

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