Get Your Youth Program in Order!

This guide takes you from 2 months out from your youth camp all the way to the conclusion of the event. It takes you through all the planning a preparation for the event, and how execute with campers in the gym. This is a 30 page document with pictures, outlines, and 8,000 words of writing on running a youth basketball camp.

This guide describes the progression of skills, drills and concepts for implementing a vertically aligned basketball program starting from 1st grade and ending with varsity basketball. This is our guide we share with our youth coaches, and includes videos of some of the drills described for each stage of development.

The guide is written from the persepctive of a varsity coach and directed to the youth coaches. The guide shares what the goals of the youth coach should be and what behaviors youth coaches are to encourage and discourage. The guide walks the reader through the four stages of athlete development including the skills and drills to be used at each stage.

This is 7 simple documents for coaches to use as they build their youth basketball program. This is for high school coaches or youth coaches looking to refine and enhance a communities youth basketball approach, mapping out the key events you want to make sure you are executing. The 7 documents include:

Youth Basketball Overview - Explains the key programs to implement in running a well-oiled community youth basketball program

In-House Sign Up - A sample form used to sign up for a general youth league in a community

Skills Assessment Rubric - A form used in the evaluation process to divide teams and choose which players make the travel teams

Youth Basketball Tournament Info - A document with all the general information about a youth tournament as well as the game play rules

Youth Camp Flyer & Outline - 2 documents. A flyer for a summer youth camp, and an outline for how to execute the camp

Seasonal Skill Camp Flyer & Template - 2 documents. A flyer for a seasonal skill camp, and a template for how to execute the camp

Timeline - A document showing how all the pieces fit together chronologically