Here’s a super-fun drill we tried out yesterday, described via a set of funny emails with my bro Dan…<\/p>\n
> Mike,
\n>
\n> You pocket dialed me today. That’s why I called you back.
\n>
\n> You were playing something with the girls yelling out numbers and colors
\n> (3, yellow!).
\n>
\n> What were you playing??<\/p>\n
hahaha! It was Reiley’s soccer practice, we were doing a
\n“mini-tournament”. I’d been wanting to try it for a while now (ever since
\nI was taught it in a coaches’ clinic a couple years ago), and with
\nReiley’s head coach out of town, it was time.<\/p>\n
You line up the girls and boys (it’s coed this year) and they count off,
\nso everyone has a number. You set up a couple small fields and number
\nthem. Then I have a list of the numbers, and call out random assignments
\n(“player 1, yellow penny on field 2 – player 2, green penny on field 1 –
\nplayer 3, no penny on field 1…” etc.). Everyone goes to their field and
\nplays a little scrimmage. After about 4 minutes, you call them all in and
\ngo through the numbers. They yell out their scores – 1 point for a goal,
\none point for an assist. Then you have a second, third, round… At the
\nend you can tally up the scores and give a shout out to the top three.<\/p>\n
Reiley came in third place!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"