Help your players get better with age-appropriate drills, clear teaching instructions, and every practice planned for you by a veteran coach.
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Instead of adapting our plans, we’ll build the season around your team, your schedule, and your priorities.
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You have 60 minutes.
Different skill levels.
A dozen things your team needs to improve.
And a game coming this weekend.
The hard part isn’t finding another drill.
It’s knowing:
Stop guessing which skills and concepts should come next.
Structure practices for real youth rosters with different skill levels.
Practices progress instead of becoming a random collection of drills.
Spend your limited time actually working with your players.
3× State Champion
11 State Tournament Appearances
2× State Coach of the Year
26 Consecutive Winning Seasons
Steve spent decades solving the same problem youth coaches face every week:
6th Grade Girls
7th Grade Boys
8th Grade Boys
“I’m so glad I stumbled upon this site, it’s made my coaching so much easier.”
Engagement, Skill Development, Practice-to-Game Transfer
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We have plans for grade 1/U7 to Grade 8/U14
You get 24 complete 60-minute practices organized to help you know what to teach, what drills to run, and how to progress your players throughout the season.
The plans include skill development, offense, defense, competitive play, teaching points, and written/video instruction where needed. Everything is already organized so you can spend less time searching for drills and more time coaching.
The $49 Practice Plans give you a proven 60-minute practice structure you can start using immediately.
The Custom Season Practice Plan is built around your specific team. You tell us your players’ age and experience, practice length, practices per week, season length, strengths, weaknesses, and priorities. We use those answers to map out what your team should work on and when.
Yes. The plans are mobile-friendly, so you can pull them up in the gym, and you can also print them if you prefer coaching from a paper copy.
The goal is simple: when practice starts, you should be able to quickly see what’s next, how long you’re spending on it, and what you’re trying to teach.
Try them for 30 days.
If you’re not satisfied with the practice plans, contact us within 30 days and we’ll refund your purchase.
We want the plans to make your practices easier to run, more purposeful, and more productive. If they don’t, you shouldn’t be stuck with them.
Custom plans are not refundable but we’ll work with you to get it the way you want.
You can spend another night searching for drills and figuring out what to teach.
Or you can walk into the gym with the plan already done.
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