Tonight’s blog comes courtesy of our Trainer, Maryellen Jordan. I had no idea she was going to do this, but it was a very plesant surprise when I opened up my email tonight. Here is what she wrote;
To the parents of Toledo Revolution,
I just wanted to let you know what a privilege it was to train your girls! They are all great girls and I enjoyed my time with them.
I am honored that Scott trusted me enough to bring me on board of Toledo Revolution.
I have the utmost respect of Scott’s ability as a coach. He has taught me much doing this time.
The training program that was designed for your girls was to develop a solid foundation of strength. Building a solid foundation of strength is critical for every female athlete competing in any sports that require strength and power.
My training philosophy is to expose youth athletes to a level of training which is appropriate for their age and ability. Because the girls came into the gym and gave 100% they mastered the proper form and execution of several important exercises therefore helping themselves prevent injuries.
That is to be applauded J
The girls should realize that this added strength will be of great benefit to their performance on the court and they should have great confidence in it!
My ultimate goal was to provide a positive, enjoyable learning experience so that they may be hooked on exercise for life!
We had some “challenge” contests at the end of some of our trainings and I have decided to give All the girls a Positively Fit T-shirt. They are all winners! (T-shirts on order- Do you blame me for wanting them as walking billboards!!)
Thanks again for the fun and rewarding experience.
Good Luck and go have fun!
Maryellen
Thanks for the note Maryellen. Astheir coach i can’t tell you how nice it is to work with players who are properly conditioned. They sure don’t look like 14 year old athletes.
As for practice tonight, it was very productive again. We did quite a bit more hitting tonight and some players made some real break throughs. Surprisingly one of the keys was simply telling them to open up their hands bigger with making contact!
We ran some cooperative ball control drills and frankly we sturggled with them. The silver lining was that it gave us an excellent opportunity to have a “conversation” about heart, focus, leadership, and teamwork. The “conversation” being one sided with me laying down the law a bit and them running sprints 
. I’m pretty sure they all still like me though and I got some pretty good nonverbal feedback that told me they got the point!
We also got to seperate out the setters and do some work with them while coach Dave showed off his athletic ability challenging the other players with a ball control digging game called coach on three.
Finally we ended with four on four back row only games to 7 with the loser having to do a consequence. They played extremely well during these games. Enough so that I got the bad taste out of my mouth from the poor performance during the cooperative ball control drills.
Overall it was a solid practice with lots of improvement going on. Things are moving so fast for some of our less experienced players, they are really getting a crash course and hadling it beautifully!
Coach Dave can’t make it tomorrow, so I’ll be on my own…
Viva!
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Tags: Practice, Practices, Session Notes, Session Updates, Sessions, toledo, Toledo Revolution, Toledo Revolution Volleyball, Toledo Volleyball, TR Volleyball, Training, Volleyball