Dear Volunteer Coach,
Thank you for offering your time and energy to create opportunities for our kids and representing the Bombers / Liberty Eagles Feeder Basketball Program.
I want this to be an awesome experience for you. Having coached before, you understand coaching a youth sports team requires an abundance of patience, organization and sensitivity. I thank you in advance for making the positive culture around your team, kids and families your utmost priority.
The purpose of the Bombers Basketball / Liberty Eagles Feeder Program is to provide our children an opportunity to develop superior life skills through team play, sportsmanship, competition and hard work. Our mission is to provide each player participating the tools they need to play basketball at the highest level possible for their individual ability, potential and interest.
In adopting a long term athlete development model approach, success will not be defined merely by the number of games a team wins during the upcoming season. Success will be measured as follows:
- Are the players on your team enjoying their experience?
- Are the players gaining an understanding and consistently executing the age appropriate skills and fundamentals of the game of basketball?
- Have you cultivated a culture around your team that promotes teamwork, sportsmanship and respect for each other?
- Do your players embrace competition and welcome a new challenge?
- Do the players understand the power and impact of controlling what they can control (Energy, Effort, Attitude) as they face adversity individually and as a team?
- Do the parents / fans of your team understand their role and demonstrate unconditional, positive support of their child and his/her teammates?
Looking big picture, you’ll likely have 25 to 35 practices, depending on your grade level, and 14 to 25 games. Realizing our time with the kids is limited, it’s imperative we enter into each “event”, game or practice, with a plan. It’s also important we treat our 14 to 25 games as extensions of our practices, using this time to further the development of superior life skills, team play, sportsmanship and competition.
We have a variety of drills posted on the website for your reference. In addition, I will regularly circulate past practice plans and concepts to be incorporated into upcoming training sessions. Go Here to visit our library of drills and instruction.
To ensure each player participating gets the opportunity to test their skill set against competition, coaches are to target providing each player equal playing time during the first 30 minutes of a 40 minute game. How playing time is distributed during the last 10 minutes of a game is completely up to you.
A Code of Conduct is posted on the website HERE and we ask that each member of your team and their parents sign off that they read and agree to the Code of Conduct. You will receive a form to be printed off and circulated at one of your early practices to gather these signatures.
Again, I want this to be awesome experience for you and look forward to sharing it with you, your team and their families.
Dustin Ashby
