Academy Players on School Teams

 Congrats!

Athletes Name       School                        Team

Kate Megffin                            Centennial Collegiate                  Senior Team

Sydney Milton                         Evan Hardy High School         Senior Team

Brynn Delainey                        Aden Bowman High School      Senior Team

                       Caison Ryan                          Holy Cross High School                 Senior Team 

                       Carter MacDonald                   Bethlehem High School                  Senior Team   

                       Addison MacDonald                Bethlehem High School                 Junior Team

                       Peter Wilson                           Tommy Douglas Collegiate             Junior Team

                     Camdyn Schmidt                      St, Joesph High School                   Junior Team

                     Dane Klimosko                         St, Joseph High School                   Senior Team

                     Audrey Larre                           Centennial Collegiate                       Junior Team

                     Peyton Larre                           Centennial Collegiate                       Junior Team 

                     Avary Ratcliffe                        Tisdale Secondary School                Senior Team

                    Grace Budnick                          Holy Cross High School                  Junior Team

                     Emerson Lawless                     Clavet Composite School                Senior Team

                     Sydney Burns                         Evan Hardy  High School                 Junior Team

                     Ryan Meckelborg                   Holy Cross School                            Junior Team

                    Alyssa Peters                           St. Joseph High School                     Junior Team

                    Ashley Ife                               St, Joseph High School                      Junior Team

                    Carys Gerwing                        St. Joseph High School                      Junior Team

                    Kate Megaffin                        Centennial Collegiate                        Senior Team 

                    Melia Linnen                          Bowman High School                       Junior Team  

                    Quinn Smith                           St. Joseph High School                      Senior Team

                    Jordan Roy                              St, Joseph High School                     Junior Team 

                    Joseph Angel                          Walter Murray School                        Junior Team  

                    Jayda  Miller                          Centennial Collegiate                         Junior Team

                    Jared Starr                              Centennial Collegiate                         Senior Team

                   Cadence Leith                         Bethlehem High School                      Senior Team

                   Samantha Leith                        Bethlehem High School                      Senior Team

                  Jackson Peddle                        Walter Murray High School                Senior Team

                  Berlyn Briske                           Holy Cross High School                     Senior Team

                   Claire Javis                             Centennial Collegiate                          Junior Team

                  Torin Doepker                          Holy Cross High School                    Senior Team

                  Mairin Mackie                         Bishop James Mahoney                      Senior Team

                  Kailyn York                             Centennial Collegiate                         Junior Team

                 Trinity Schmidt                        Bishop James Mahoney                      Junior Team

                 Sophie Kahl                             St. Joesph High School                        Junior Team

                 Gabrielle Bildfell                     Walter Murray Collegiate                    Junior Team

                Claire McKinnon                       Walter Murray Collegiate                   Junior Team

                Kate Nelson                               Evan Hardy High School                    Junior Team

                Avery Mackintosh                     Centennial Collegiate                          Junior Team

               Adysen Grychowski                  St. Joseph High School                        Junior Team

               Jeremy Tratch                            Walter Murray  Collegiate                   Senior Team

               Brenna Korol                              St Joseph High School                        Junior Team

               Myah Clatney                            Bishop James Mahoney                       Senior Team

              Avery Clatney                             Bishop James Mahoney                       Junior Team                         

           

                     

                       

      

                                                     

So you made the School Team!

 Being selected to represent your school on any team is a privilege not given to everyone and should be respected. The coach(s) saw something in you that they believe will help the team succeed. Don't be afraid to ask what that was. Being selected for a team allows you to attend practices. What you do during those practices will determine if you should see court time during the games. Making the team does not automatically mean you will see the court during games. You have to earn that right.

Many players have heard the quote, there is no "I" in team, or it is not "me"; it is "we,"  or if you want to be on the team, say "we," not "I." 

A team is a group of people who, to succeed, must be there for each other.   When you are selected for the team, during the season, you must be accountable to the other players on the team. Your behaviour in and out of uniform directly influences how others see the team or school. It would be best if you did everything possible to bring your best to the court during games and, more importantly, during practices. Practices are where you win games. If you continue to do any behaviour during or outside of practices that makes you less of a teammate, your team will not be able to reach the highest level. Your mental, physical and spiritual health needs to be maintained for you to offer your best to your teammates.

Mentally, you need to be positive and surround yourself with positive people who set goals and want to be the best they can be. Physically be aware of what you are putting into your body, and maintain your awareness by getting enough sleep. Be spiritually healthy by ensuring you stay ahead of your school work, recognizing and being thankful for the people there to help you. Do your best to be nice to others and be a participating member of the school. If you have people, factors, and behaviours that make you less, sacrifice some things, change some behaviours, plan for success and be there for the others who support you and your team. There is no better feeling than putting effort into seeing how good you and your team can become if the players selected for the team do more rather than less.   Being a good team member will develop character and behaviours that will serve you in future in more than sports. Cherish the chance you have been given as a team member. Do not feel you are entitled to anything. Get out there and earn it.   It will be amazing how much more you can achieve as a team than you can as an individual.

Congrats on making the team.

Above image was taken from:

https://www.parentsinsport.co.uk/2018/12/11/how-and-why-do-coaches-select-a-team/

 

So you got Cut off the School Team! Putting in the Time The disappointment of not making your school team has become a reality for many athletes. It is awful as a parent to watch your child experience that disappointment. Being selected to be a school team member is not an easy task. To be the best, you have to practice more than the rest!   Past training, ball contact, playing time and practice are the most significant determining factors in their ability to make the school team. The attempt today is to help parents put their child's disappointment into perspective. When a child comes home and is disappointed they did not make the school team. Make sure, as a parent, you put the blame where it belongs. The first gut instinct is to look for outside people or factors to place the blame. Most of the players on bigger school senior teams are club players and have been involved in organized volleyball for 4-5 years, attended camps and training sessions and worked on a planned approach to becoming better at the sport.   Just having the desire and the natural athletic ability cannot replace this amount of previous ball contact of these veteran players in the sport. A bigger school with two junior high school teams could have over 100 athletes trying out for these teams.   That means there are going to be 75 athletes who are going to experience the disappointment. The schools only have one senior team, which means the 24 athletes who played for the school's junior teams will be cut in half. That is not even considering the players transferring into the school with past volleyball experience. Making the team is not an easy thing. Be proud of your child's willingness to attend the tryouts. Ask them if they genuinely feel they should have been selected for the team. This is an essential question for your child to be able to answer. Knowing how good you are at a sport is a learned skill. Many young athletes are not objective and will look for outside factors to justify why they did not make the team. As a parent do not support this train of thought. The athlete's past effort, activities and sacrifices in their journey to achieving their goal is the single factor which should be used to understand why the tryout was successful or not. Placing blame on the structure, coach, size of the school, and the number of athletes trying out are some easy excuses for why an athlete did not make the team.   But it is not a constructive approach to developing a plan to make it next time as they are all factors over which the athlete has no control. The desire to be on the team is evident because they attended the tryouts, but it is not enough. Do they own a volleyball or have access to one they could use to put in the necessary outside-of-practice touches to compete with the other players? In the past, what activities have they done which would make them better than the others at the tryouts? What actions did they do all summer to prepare them for school tryouts? It takes a lot more than just desire to earn the right to represent the school in a sport. As a school coach, it was always evident which players had put in the time and effort between seasons. It was also the most challenging job to cut a past team member because they did not practice during the off-season more than the rest.   The lack of effort to achieve the desired goal is a hard pill to swallow but a lesson which needs to be learned. A spot on a school team which is given and not earned has little value. The disappointment of not making the team can be the fire to spark the drive needed to set the necessary steps in play to avoid failure the next time. Sometimes, even the effort put in is not enough to achieve the goal.   But the lesson learned here is many times, the journey is the lesson.    I am sorry to hear you did not make the team. The goal was not earned by the athlete's past effort before they went to tryouts. Coaches wish they could keep every player who tryouts, but it would cheapen the value of earning a spot on a school team, and that is the best lesson that can be taught. Encourage your athlete to not quit. Use disappointment as the flame to power the effort to achieve the goal next time. Michael Jordan When I got cut from the Varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, the hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity. I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying again.

Starting this week!

 

Welcome to the First Week of September Newsletter Important announcement If you have a session happening on September 6,7,8, it has been moved due to construction from Father Robinson School to Holy Family School. School Team Tryouts Drop us a note if your daughter or son made the school team. Let us know which team so I can come to watch when I get a chance. My Child Made the Cut Email Education and Volleyball We now know Volleyball is importanter than school. Here is what is happening and starting at the academy this week. All the suggestions of who can attend a session at the academy are just guidelines. If you feel your athlete will benefit by attending a session, register them for it. The path to getting better at Volleyball is different for every athlete. The academy is trying to offer various activities that will allow each athlete to grow.  NexGen Hitter Development Coach - Leanne McGettigan The pilot project will start training to create the next generation of Hitters in Saskatchewan. We will be seeking a set of 16 athletes who would like to train to be the next group of hitters. The athletes must be U14 and U15 age club groups or grades 6-9 (This is just a guideline. They could be older or younger. ) We are looking for athletes with no more than a single season or no training as club players. The athletes must understand the commitment and desire to become the NexGen Hitters. The athletes must be dedicated, willing to work hard, coachable, and train more than the rest. This program will run for one month, twice a week, at Father Robinson indoor Courts. The program will run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7 pm.  The first two sessions will be at Holy Family School due to the construction at Father Robinson School.   Register for Hitter Development NexGen Libero Development Coaches Darren Cannel, Toako Chie Imamura and David Choung The project will be the start of training to create the next generation of Liberos in Saskatchewan. We will seek a set of 16 athletes who would like to train to be the next group of Liberos. The athletes must be U14 and U16 age club groups or grades 6-11 (This is just a guideline. They could be older or younger.) We are looking for athletes with no more than a single season or no training as club players. The athletes must understand the commitment and desire to become the NexGen Liberos. The athletes must be dedicated, willing to work hard, coachable, and train more than the rest. This program will run for one month for two days each week at Father Robinson indoor Courts. The program will run Monday and Wednesday from 8-9 pm. The first two sessions will be at Holy Family School due to the construction at Father Robinson School. Register for Libero Development NexGen Setter Development Coaches -Toako Chie Imamura and Denise Chapman The project will be the start of training to create the next generation of Setters in Saskatchewan. We will be seeking a set of 16 athletes who would like to train to be the next group of setters. The athletes must be U14 and U15 age athletes. (This is just a guideline. They could be older or younger.) We are looking for athletes with no more than a single season or no training as club setters. The athletes must understand the commitment and desire to become the NexGen Setters. The athletes must be dedicated, willing to work hard, coachable, and train more than the rest. This program will run for one month for two days each week at Father Robinson indoor Courts. The program will run Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm. The first session will be at Holy Family School due to the construction at Father Robinson School. Register for Setter Development NexGen Fundamental Development Grades 4-6  Coach -Sandi Neith The NexGen FUNdamental Development for grades 4-6 is a one-hour introduction to volleyball and one-hour fitness, agility and jump training on Sunday Morning. The following skills will be introduced during this session: Serving. Passing (forearm underhand passing). Setting (overhead passing). Attack options (hitting/spiking). Blocking (from attack and defend positions). Defensive skills (rolling & sliding). The fitness, agility and jump training hour is designed to help athletes develop their vertical jump. It is a strength, agility and jump combination of exercises to help the athletes learn to jump and land. It will assist in avoiding injury caused by improper jump technique. Register forFundamental Development Jump Training Coaches -Tamille Schuler and Jaime Waskowic Jump Training twice a week will profoundly impact a player's explosive power and boost their volleyball game. Jump training will happen each month. Every Tuesday and Thursday from 7- 8:00 pm in September. The jump training sessions are designed to help athletes develop their vertical jump. It is a strength, agility and jump combination of exercises to help the athletes learn to jump and land. It will assist in avoiding injury caused by improper jump technique. There will be limited spots in each group. So, register quickly. The first two sessions will be at Holy Family School due to the construction at Father Robinson School. Register forJump Training Open Gym Game Play Coaches - Katie Young and Daxtin Cannell The academy is hosting an open gym night. This is a two-hour volleyball play night. Tell your friends it will cost you 17 dollars to play. Please pay ahead of time by registering. It is not organized and is just a time for people to play Volleyball. No referee, no scorekeepers, no coaches...just music. Everyone is welcome Register for Open Gym Basic Serving Sessions Coach - Sandi Nieth The Six Skills Series is the skills needed to be a well-rounded volleyball player. The sessions are short and focus on a single skill. In school and club volleyball, the coaches often do not have time to teach basic volleyball skills. Where can an athlete ensure they have a solid foundation to develop these skills? These sessions are an answer to this problem. This is a chance for athletes who want to do a consistent serve over the net. This session is offered Sunday 10-11 am on September, 11,18 and 25. You will have to register for each of the three dates separately. Register for Basic Serving Private Lessons Coach-you choose Private lessons allow the athletes to choose the session's topic. A coach will be assigned based on the skills instruction or who the athlete requested.   A private lesson can be for one-four athlete. The session price is the same if one or four athletes attend the session. The private lessons are top-rated as they allow the athletes to work one-on-four with our talented coaches. The most popular sessions are the three "S" of Volleyball. Volleyball's three "S" are serving, setting, and spiking. Register for Private Lessons The above are the sessions starting this week; many are close to being sold out. If you are interested in one of the above sessions, register early. We have also added a whole pile of other sessions which will start later in the year, and if any of those interest you, register so you can make sure you have a spot. The above are the sessions starting this week; many are close to being sold out. If you are interested in one of the above sessions, register early. We have also added a whole pile of other sessions which will start later in the year, and if any of those interest you, register so you can make sure you have a spot. Check out the Photo Gallery The Benefits of Sports (taken from https://www.atyourownrisk.org/benefits-of-sports) Academic and Career Benefits Youth sports help young athletes learn essential life skills like goal setting and time management, as well as the following: High school students, especially female students, who play sports are less likely to drop out. Participation in team sports results in a higher GPA for both high school boy and girl athletes. Physically active children are 15% more likely to attend college. Former student-athletes earn significantly higher incomes than those who do not play sports. Student-athletes earn up to 40% higher test scores Health and Wellness Benefits Regular physical activity, fitness and exercise are critically important for the health and well-being of people of all ages. Research shows that physically active children are less likely to be obese, have lower health care costs and have a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. Teens participating in team sports are less likely to use drugs, smoke cigarettes and carry weapons. Physical activity can enhance a child’s self-perceptions of body, competence and self-worth. Organized sports participation may aid in developing physical skills, such as hand-eye coordination; functional movement skills and strength; and academic, self-regulatory, and general life skills. It may also have positive social benefits, improving social identity and adjustment. Life and Social Benefits Children who participate in sports, compared to peers who do not play sports, exhibit the following: Greater personal confidence and self-esteem. Stronger peer relationships. Greater family attachment and more frequent interactions with parents. More likely to volunteer, vote and follow the news.   Check out the Blog

Whole batch of new sessions

 

New sessions

No fancy pictures, just an update on the new sessions. No long descriptions. You will have to go to the registration page to get more information. Grass Court Private Lessons put six new ones on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week for those nervous about school tryouts. I can also do some on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Just drop me a note, and I will put it on. Want to know more Friday Night Gameplay Nine fridays, we play the music you come play. No coaches, no referees, no stress Want to know more Jump Training September - added new spots October November December Want to know more NexGen Series - twice a week, new group every month until December NexGen Hitters Development NexGen Liberos Development NexGen Setter Development NexGen Fundamental Development (weekends) Want to know more The six skills series Basic Serving Advanced Serving Jump Serving Basic Passing Advanced Passing Basic Spiking Advanced Spiking Basic Defence Advanced Defence Basic Blocking Advanced Blocking Want to know more Beach 2's Training Summer Camps Basic Beach 2's Training Advanced Beach 2's Girls Training Advanced Boys 2's Boy Training Want to know more Outdoor Summer Camps Age 11-13 Volleyball Camp Outdoors SMLW Outdoor Camp Academy Volleyball G and S Camp Want to know more Making the Cut Camps Making the Cut Junior High School Team Making The Cut Senior High School Team Want to know more