First Day of Practice

Sunday was our first official day of basketball practice and I loved it. We started out by gathering as a team in the middle of the court and talking about how practices are going to go all year and the coaches gave us a brief speech on our theme for the year. Then we started doing dynamic stretching and getting warmed up. After that, we worked on some drills to get warmed up. We pretty much did some cone drills and lay ups and stuff to get a light sweat going. Then we split up into posts, point guards and shooting guards and worked on some more drills. Then we all came back together and worked on different one-on-one scoring drills and then did transitioning drills as a team to get us running. After that  we started to talk about defense and went over the concepts of our defense, then did live drills with defense structure. To end the practice we worked on free throws and then introduced our new offense to the team and worked on the first option of it. After that we all gathered in the middle of the gym again and talked about the good and bad things that happened in practice that day then broke it down as a team. Some girls stayed and shot for awhile after then practice was done. I would have to say that for my first college basketball practice, it went good and I am looking forward to what this season is going to bring!