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Youth Basketball Practice Plans

Walk Into Every Practice Knowing Exactly What to Coach.

Help your players get better with age-appropriate drills, clear teaching instructions, and every practice planned for you by a veteran coach.

Not Sure What You Need? Take the Assessment 

Choose Your Path to Better Practices

Trusted by 200,000+ Youth Coaches

Built by 3× State Champion Steve Collins

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24 Download-Ready Practice Plans

$49

Proven practices you can start using immediately.

For coaches who need a basic plan. Download and go! 

Custom Practice Plans

Starting at $1/practice hour

Built Around Your Team

Instead of adapting our plans, we’ll build the season around your team, your schedule, and your priorities.

Not sure which one is right?

Take the 3-minute Practice Development Assessment and we’ll point you in the right direction.

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YOU'RE NOT SHORT ON DRILLS

You're Short on Practice Time.

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:

That's the problem our practice plans are built to solve.

BETTER PRACTICES. LESS PLANNING.

Make Every Minute in the Gym Count.

Know What to Teach

Stop guessing which skills and concepts should come next.

Use Every Minute

Your practice is already organized before you walk into the gym.

Keep Players Moving

Structure practices for real youth rosters with different skill levels.

Build Throughout the Season

Practices progress instead of becoming a random collection of drills.

Make Practice Show Up in Games

Move from teaching to repetition to decision-making to competitive play.

Coach More. Plan Less.

Spend your limited time actually working with your players.

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BUILT BY A COACH. NOT AI.

Decades of Coaching Experience, Already Organized for You.

Coach Steve Collins

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:

How do you turn limited practice time into better basketball players?

These plans take the system he used to build teams year after year and make it practical for youth coaches.

USED BY REAL YOUTH COACHES

You Don't Need More Drills.
You Need a Better Plan.

Testimonials 1

Coach Marino

6th Grade Girls

Rated 5 out of 5
“The drills and tips on this site have been a game-changer for my team.”
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Coach Stephanie

7th Grade Boys

Rated 5 out of 5
“I really appreciate the done-for-you practice plans and the podcast. As a mom who knows nothing about basketball but is going into the second year of coaching a 6th grade boys team it has been a massive helpful!”
Testimonials 2

Coach Justin

8th Grade Boys

Rated 5 out of 5

“I’m so glad I stumbled upon this site, it’s made my coaching so much easier.”

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NOT SURE WHAT YOU NEED?

Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Practice Time?

Take the 3-minute Practice Development Assessment and see how your practices score across:

Engagement, Skill Development, Practice-to-Game Transfer

Questions Before You Start?

Find a quick answer here or click the chat icon on your screen. 

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. 

Download Your Season Plan Today

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.

Immediate Access • 30-Day Guarantee • Built for Youth Basketball

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