Saturday, August 24, 2019

Making the Cut Royalty search

The game sessions at the end of each day is a Making the Cut Royalty search.  It is similar to King and Queen of the Beach tourney where the best players in each tier are crowned at the end of the four days of play.  Be prepared it is a fun way to play volleyball.

I have attached the rules of the tourney which will also be explained but thought you might be curious and it will allow you to explain it to your parents before you encourage them to come to watch. 

We are less than a day and a half away from the start of Making the Cut.  I hope you all are as excited as I am.

How do you play King and Queen of the Court
  1. Each player is assigned a letter. (Same for each game session)
  2. You will play on the same court as the other players of your tier.
  3. You have a different team each time you play.
  4. Your court position is assigned.
(ie.  If your team is BNTCSOWQ you enter the court as 
B-in position 1
N-in position 2
T-in position 3
C-in position 4
S-in position 5
O-in position 6
The first sub- W
Second Sub- Q )
  1. Subs are made right after serve is lost. 
  2. The game is timed and the score is kept by the teams and announced before each person serves.
  3. When the time is up, the last completed point is the score, a rally in progress does not count.
  4. At the end of game, the players from both teams who started in position 1 are required to report to Darren and present the score and who won.
  5. The next game starts almost immediately so be ready.
Each member of the winning team is given a W and the top two players (male or female) with the most Ws are named the winners for each tier.

Win A Prize

Each player who is attending the full camp will get a journal and a t-shirt.  The journal is used at the end of each session to complete some mental practice to develop more well-rounded athletes.  There will also be handouts give to supplement the journal work and also to make the athletes think about their approach to sports and volleyball.
The attached files are one such activity and help the coaches get to know the athletes better.   I have printed off a copy of this hand out that you can pick up as you come in the door for your first session. These need to be handed in by the end of the first day and the best three submitted will win their choice of an award from the collection of t-shirts, dawg shoes, and other donated prizes.  I have attached the front and back of the handout in case some of you would like to get a head start on the activity by printing them off at home and working on them beforehand.  I was an art teacher in another life and I like this kind of stuff.  The activity is not only limited to paper so be creative and surprise us with your entry.  This is not a mandatory activity but the prizes are worth the effort. 



Every serious volleyball player should have a volleyball

The camp requires each and every athlete to bring their own volleyball.  The camp's coaches do spend time giving individual skills drills which can be done at home so the volleyball should be used to assist the athletes in preparing themselves to reach their next level.
Some parents have asked if I have any volleyballs they can buy and I do have a limited number of Baden practice balls which you can purchase from me.  To do so go to the website to the store on the bottom of the page to pay for it, I will have some at the camp.

We also have a variety of t-shirt and hoodies for sale other than the camp t-shirts.

Friday, August 23, 2019

Coaching staff for Making the Cut.

I feel honored to have the opportunity to have a group of coaches like this to make the Making the Cut camp a great four days.  I am excited for it to start and look forward to learning from such a talented group.

Dr. Darren Cannell

Darren has coached club volleyball for two decades. Was the president of the Saskatchewan Volleyball Association for ten years and a Volleyball Canada Director for the same. He has coached a provincial team, CANAM teams, and national teams.
Darren played 5 years university volleyball in Ontario (nominated all Ontario), senior club player, beach and on the master’s national team.

David Chuong

David has played volleyball for the last 17 years. He started in elementary school and continued on to high school playing on the senior team from grade 10 and on. He also played club volleyball from U13 through to U18 and also played on the Arima Challenge team. He continues to play through indoor recreational leagues and beach volleyball leagues.
David has coached for the last 8 years and is an Advanced Development Certified Coach. He coached with the Atomic Volleyball Program teaching fundamentals to children aged 8-12. He has coached various club teams in Saskatoon including Huskie Volleyball Club, Jeff’s Crestwear Volleyball Club, Bridge City Volleyball and Saskatoon Ignite Volleyball. He is heavily involved in coaching in the high school program working with Holy Cross High School’s senior boy’s program.

Jenna Stevenson

Jenna played competitive volleyball growing up and played on club teams in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Jenna’s volleyball team won multiple city championships and won a medal at provincials my 16U year of club play. Jenna now enjoys playing beach volleyball in the summers and coaching in the winters.
Jenna started coaching club volleyball in 2015. I coached women’s volleyball during my first year. Jenna made the transition over to the men’s game after that and have coached men’s club volleyball from 14U to the 16U level ever since. Jenna has NCCP Level 1 certification and working on completing my Level 2 certification by the end of 2019.



Marianne Schneider

Marianne has played volleyball for many years and continues to play women’s volleyball on two teams.
Marianne has coached volleyball for 5 years and is Advanced Development certified. During the last three years of coaching club volleyball, the teams have finished in the top 8 and this past season was Provincial silver medalists. Marianne’s hope is that players have the opportunity to develop skills and have a love of the game that will continue into late adulthood.

Michele McKeown

Michele has been involved with volleyball as a player and coach for over 30 years. She has won provincial championships at the high school, club, senior, master, and beach levels. She has won Western Canadian titles and National Championships at various times over her career and enjoys being part of the Team Canada Master’s program where she has traveled to tournaments in the U.S. and Greece. She loves to share her knowledge and passion for the game through her coaching at high school, club, and beach programs, but most importantly, enjoys creating opportunities for upcoming players to learn, understand, and gain her passion for the game of volleyball.



Rob Dziadyk

Rob has played volleyball for 35 years at various levels in Saskatchewan. Rob started in the club system in 1983 and continues to play at the Senior men’s level. Volleyball is his true passion though he has coached other sports like softball and soccer along the way. Rob has spent the past 4 years coaching with SMASH Volleyball Club and has assisted them to 2 Provincial titles and a Division 2 Western Canadian title. Rob recently mentored under Coach Dale Regal and enjoys sharing his passion for the game with upcoming players hoping to ignite that lifelong love for the game.


Terry Graham

Terry played middle for the Assiniboia high school volleyball team, placing fourth in provincials in 1980. He played club volleyball while attending the University of Saskatchewan from 1980-1986.
In my Grade 12 year of high school Terry coached the Assiniboia High School Junior Boys’ volleyball team. Terry coached club volleyball during my six years of university. where he also became a level two volleyball referee. He coached the Marion Graham Junior Boys volleyball team during a coaching practicum and a Prince Albert Toppers Club volleyball team during my internship. Once he started teaching, he coached 27 high school and club volleyball teams in Spring Valley, Eatonia, Lanigan, and Saskatoon, winning three SHSAA provincial silver medals. He was awarded the SHSAA Outstanding Coach Award in 2018 and a SSSAD Coaching Merit Award in 2019 when he retired from teaching. He is a certified level 2 NCCP volleyball coach, and he has level 3 NCCP (theory). He is presently coaching the Saskatoon Christian School’s Senior Boys Volleyball team, hoping to attain that elusive gold medal in 2019!



Toaka Che Imamura

Chie as a player in 1990 played in the Asian Junior Women’s Volleyball Championship and won gold. She was awarded the best setter award. In 1991 she played in Women’s U20 World Championship and won bronze. She was awarded the best setter award. In 1990 and 1994 she played for the University of Tsukaba Women’s Volleyball Team. Tsukaba University was one of the top teams in Japan. In 1987 the Tsukaba University came to Saskatoon to play against the University of Saskatchewan and again in 1990 and Chie came with them. In 1994 Chie came to Saskatoon to be an assistant coach at the University of Saskatchewan. She has since that time coached Club volleyball, High school volleyball, Community volleyball and done individual practice in the province. By many, she is considered to be one of the best setter coaches in the province.

Thursday, August 22, 2019

The Camp Placement experiment


The Placement of athletes into the different tiers for the Canadian Elite Academy has been an adventure in learning for me.  The first challenge was to get each of the participants to complete the survey.  (we are still tracking down a few)
The academy is trying to develop a system where we try to limit the amount of evaluating that is done to the athletes and help them move more to a self-evaluation system. 
The placement survey asked some interesting questions which helped with the placement of the athletes. 
We first looked at the last level the athletes played.
Then the next level the athlete wanted to play. 
Then the tier the athletes thought would be best for them to enjoy the camp.
Then we emailed out a suggestion for the tier level for each athlete who has completed the survey asking them to respond to the placement.
The last step was to give the parents and the athletes the change to respond to the placement and if they wanted to be higher or lower the adjustment was made. 
The choice of tier should challenge the athlete and also not be too high as to be beyond the skill level of the athlete.
The academy will move an athlete up if we identify the tier they are at is not challenging enough.  Parents and athletes will need to make the decision to move down a level.  In the end, all of this is to make the experience more valuable for the athletes.
A few points about the up and coming camp
Be at the sessions at least 15 minutes before it starts.
Be ready when the session begins, do not be that athlete who is still putting their shoes.
Bring your own volleyball, label it well.
Ask for help, athletes need to take ownership of their learning.  The ratio of coaches to an athlete is 10 to 1 and we have collected a great group of very experienced coaches.  Ask often for help and make the most of the event.
Bring a water bottle.
Cell Phones are not to be used in the gym.  If you need to use the phone go outside.
Bring extra socks if you are not going home between sessions.
Bring a snack of some sort and make sure you eat outside not in the gym
Parents are always welcome to watch the camp and should do so above in the balcony.
The camp is designed to be fairly high intensity and is why the spacing of the sessions is two hours on and two hours off.  Athletes should relax, take a break and understand they will have sore muscles by the end of the camp.
If you are being picked up by anyone other than your parents make sure the coaches know.

Monday, August 19, 2019

More camp information



The camp is getting close to hitting 90 plus athletes. This results in a two-tiered approach to the coaching hours. Each athlete has self-assessed themselves into groups.

Time One Group Beginners and Seniors two groups (17 athletes in each. Total 34)
Time Two Group Juniors and Intermediate three groups (20 athletes in each. Total 60)

Time One Group
8:00 - 10:00 am
12:00 - 2:00 pm
4:00 - 6:00 pm

TimeTwo Group
10:00 - 12:00 pm
2:00 - 4:00 pm
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Time Group one will be made up to the beginners.  (We will need a coach who will be identified as the head coach for this group.  If you are interested in this job, drop me a note.)  This group will require an assistant coach for the first and second session. 
The senior group head coach will be Darren Cannell.  Each of the first and second session will require an assistant coach to help with those sessions.
A different assistant coach will be used for each session to provide a different skill set during each of the 8 sessions.  (Each of the coaches at the camp will be asked to sign up for a session.
The Time Group Two will be made up of the bulk of athletes.  The head coach for these sessions will be Darren Cannell and the assistant will help on each of the courts. (This is the same system that was used last years camp)
Each of the assistants will be required to design and do a warm-up on the 8 sessions (sessions one and two)
The Time two groups third session is a game session and will be supervised by Darren Cannell, Toako Chie Imamura, and Michele McKeown
The  Time one group, third session is a game session and will be supervised by Darren Cannell and whoever decides to be the Head Coach for the beginner group.

Sessions for the four days are as follows
Day one Session One
Introduction and Underhand passing
Day one Session two
Setting and  Attacking
Day one Session three
Game Play
Day two Session one
Serving
Day two Session two
Blocking,  Free ball, Transitional play
Day two Session three
Game Play
Day three Session one
Serving and Underhand passing
Day three Session two
Spiking and Blocking
Day three Session three
Game Play
Day four Session one
Defense
Day four Session two
Positions
Day four Session three
Game Play

Snow Volleyball



Snow Volleyball Tourney

We are thinking about running a snow volleyball tourney in December of this year.  What do you think?

Coaches needed.



Coaches needed

We need a few more quality coaches for the Making the Cut Camp.  If you know of any drop us an email so we can follow up. 

Making the Cut Camp


Making the Cut Camp

All participants registered for the camp will be getting important emails over the next couple of days to share the necessary information for the athletes.  We will be sending them to the email that was used during the registration process.
Important Notice
In order for the academy to effectively place the participants in the camp, we need them to complete a self-assessment before they arrive… (it will only take five minutes but it is very important)
With the availability of coaching and gym time, we can split up the groups by self-assessment survey, allowing the experience to be more appropriate to the skill level of the participant. For this, to work we need the information given in the pre-camp survey to allow us to better know the athletes. Although many athletes have attended a lot of sessions in the past (350+ participants) it is difficult with further information for the coaching staff at the academy to place the athletes the survey will assist greatly in this goal.

Each athlete attending must bring a ball to the camp as volleyballs are not provided.

The Last week of Beach Volleyball


The last week of Free Beach Volleyball

Tuesday and Thursday (August 20 and 22) from 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Father Robinson Beach courts.  Everyone is welcome, drop by. 

Ignite Athletics Training Groups


Starting September 3rd, 2019,  the first day after Labor Day Ignite Athletic Conditioning will offer a Jump Training group on Tuesday and Thursday 5:30-6:30 pm.

"This was one of the best training sessions that my son attended, it was money well spent in my mind." Dr. Darren Cannell

Cost is 132.00 plus GST per month.

Head to Ignite Athletic Conditioning at:
http://www.igniteathletics.com

Last week of beach and one week until Making the Cut Camp


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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Canadian Elite Academy Royalty Seach


The search for the King of the Beach started with ten athletes.
Three athletes were tied for second place with six wins.  These three were Austin Regier, Jacob Tratch and Daxtin Cannell.
The King of the Beach was Owen Sumner with seven wins.



The search for the Queen of the Beach started with eleven athletes.
Four athletes were tied for second place with six wins.  These four were Liv Stianson, Katie Young, Emjay Koller, and Paige Friesen.
The Queen of the Beach was Brynn Lewis with eight wins.





Monday, August 12, 2019

Important Notice for Camp Participants

Important Notice
In order for the academy to effectively place the participants in the camp we need them to complete a self-assessment before they arrive...  (it will only take five minutes but it is very important)

https://forms.gle/mtAewRfkkXh2iHgFA

With the availablity of coaching and gym time we can split up the groups by self-assessment survey, allowing the experience to be more appropriate to the skill level of the participant.  For this to work we need the information given in the pre-camp survey to allow us to better know the athletes.  Although many athletes have attend a lot of sessions in the past (350+ participants) it is difficult with further information for the coaching staff at the academy to place the athletes the survey will assist greatly in this goal.

The sessions schedule for the four days will be the following.  The academy does reserve the right to adjust the focus of sessions to meet the needs of the athletes.

Monday August 26th 10-12pm
Introduction and Underhand Passing (Never Walk)

Monday August 26th 2-4pm
Attacking (No Loose Balls)

Monday August 26th 6-8pm
Game Play (Talk is Cheap and Annoying)

Tuesday August 27th 10-12pm
Serving (Mistake Recovery)

Tuesday August 27th 2-4pm
Blocking (Positive)

Tuesday August 27th 5-8pm
Game Play (Help Teammates)

Wednesday August 28th 10-12pm
Serving and underhand passing (Believe the Coach)

Wednesday August 28th 2-4pm
Spiking and blocking (Respond to Instruction)

Wednesday August 28th 4-6pm
Game Play (Location, Location, Location)

Thursday August 29th 10-12pm
Defense (Practice Your Weakness)

Thursday August 29th 2-4pm
Positions (Help Others)

Thursday August 29th 6-8pm
Game Play (Confidence no arrogant)

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We have hit our goal.  Time to Celebrate

The Summer goals

The interest in the academy and quality of our athletes continue to amaze me and brings a smile to my face.
We planned to have 75 athletes at the Making the Cut camp and we have done that.
We planned doubled our numbers in the beach doubles training program and we have done that.
We planned to increase the success rate of beach athletes and Michele our coach did more than that.
We planned to have the free beach sessions double in popularity and we have done that.
W planned to host a quality beach tourney and we have done that.

We have reached our goals.


The Canadian Elite Academy beach doubles Provincial Results
 
Women's Age groups

Under 14 Womens beach
10 teams entered
Petras/ Friesen -Finished fourth
Petras/Pereira - Finished second

Under 15 Womens beach
10 teams entered
Lewis/Lewis - finished fourth
Jaryn/Azra - finished third
Waskowic/Stianson - finished second

Under 16 Womens beach
12 teams entered
Imamura/Lewis - finished first
Koller/Young - finished seventh

Men's Age groups

Under 15 boys
2 teams entered
Cannell/Webster -canceled the event.

Under 16 boys
5 teams entered
Pahl/Ginther - finished second
Tratch/Sumner - finished fourth

Under 18 boys
4 teams entered
Regier/Peters - finished fourth

Congrats to all who participated, you all made us very proud and helped fulfill one of our goals.

Making the Cut Camp Survey

We need each participating athlete to fill out a self-assessment survey.  Do it now!

Camp Survey

Beach Royalty Search

If you are one of the twenty-four athletes who trained all summer we are seeking our King and Queen of the Beach this Tuesday on Father Robinson Beach courts from 4-8pm.  This unique individual tournament format is so cool and fun it is not something you want to miss watching or playing in it.  To watch it cost nothing, to play in it cost nothing but is restricted to just the 24 beach doubles training group of athletes.   To watch it everyone is invited. The draw will be made on Monday at midnight so register before that.

Register here
Even though we have reached our goal.  We still can allow one or two more registrations but will need to cut that off if the academy cannot find a few more coaches who can reach the standard required by the academy.

Register for the final few spots.
We at the academy designed a new 22-second video.  Let us know what you think? 

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