Girls Basketball Trainer Blog

“Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.”
-Anthony Robbins

Here is footage from the 2010 NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp for boys. This camp regularly features the nation’s top high school players and gives them insight in to what it takes to play in the NBA (both on and off the court). The camp is staffed by over two dozen former NBA players as well as current high school coaches.

Boys just seem to have all the fun and access to top camps learning new skills and drills. Don’t worry girls—I plan to change all that..

This video has some really great drills to help you with ball handling and some great post moves. I can’t wait to get back in the gym.

Check out these highlights from the 3rd Annual Chris Paul Elite Guard Camp. There is so much emphasis placed on ball handling, individual moves, and intense defense!

As a basketball trainer, watching this video gives me chills because I love to generate knew ideas to pass to the young ladies that I train.. I can’t wait to hit the gym for Saturday’s training session.

ONE QUESTION: ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT GIRLS BASKETBALL AS THE DRUMMER IN THE VIDEO IS ABOUT DRUMMING?

YOU GOT TO SEE THIS – PRESS PLAY ON THE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Patosha Jeffery 2010 Summer Workout Program consist of 4 workouts to help you progress and build skills for the upcoming fall/winter season. The workouts are broken down into areas of agility, shooting, passing, dribbling and ball handling. The workouts build off the previous one. This is a great program for beginner to intermediate players to add fundamental skills.

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Every once in a while you will encounter a bad game or a bad day. It just seems like nothing will go your way. Contrary to popular belief you can still look good during a bad game or day.

Since the July evaluation period is almost here. It is the perfect time to help you get prepared to showcase your skills to the college coaches and scouts you will be playing in front of.

None other than former college coach, ESPN Hoopgurlz’s Mark Lewis breaks down 8 ways to over come a slump.

• Show them that you can still defend.

• Show them that you can always rebound.

• Show them that you won’t overreact.

• Show them you can learn over the course of the game.

• Show them that you have reading and math skills.

• Show them that you understand time and clock management.

• Show them that you’ve got focus and the right attitude.

• Show them that you can communicate on the floor.

Click here for the complete ESPN Hoopgurlz article

I hosted my very first Speed & Agility Camp. It was a success. Thank you to all the participants that came out to learn how to be more powerful, explosive, and agile basketball players. By attending the camp, the young ladies also put themselves a step ahead of the competition in girls basketball.

Rob Weatherly of Velocity Sports Performance did an excellent job showing the young ladies the different ways to warm up and stretch, drills to increase agility and quickness and how it applies to basketball. And you know I could not let the young ladies come to a girls basketball camp and not go over basketball skills. I had the young ladies go through stations of shooting, dribbling, passing and free throw shooting.

Check out the highlights.

Does the road to Division 1 Womens Basketball go through jump shots, block shots or 3 pointers?

Not exactly.

The road to Division 1 womens college basketball goes through ACADEMICS.

ESPN Rise’s Clay Kallam wrote an article describing a necessary process of getting to Division 1.

It all starts at the NCAA Eligibility Center (www.eligibilitycenter.org), and the fundamentals of this game are academic. To play Division I basketball as a college freshman, high school athletes must first complete 16 core courses in English (four years), math (three years), science (two years), social science (two years), plus five other courses that qualify as core courses. Oh, and just taking them isn’t enough — a minimum grade-point average is required as well.

Click here to read the entire article explaining academic requirements

ESPN Hoopgurlz’s Mark Lewis is no ordinary sports writer. Check out his bio:

Mark Lewis is the national recruiting coordinator for ESPN HoopGurlz. Twice ranked as one of the top 25 assistant coaches in the game by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, he has more than 20 years of college coaching experience at Memphis State, Cincinnati, Arizona State, Western Kentucky and, most recently, Washington State.

If someone with over 20 years of college coaching experience is offering advice, I would definitely listen.

Mark Lewis makes some great points in his latest article on Hoopgurlz:

• It seems today that the willingness to spend time in the gym or studying and following the game is taking a back burner to simply playing games.
• What do you hear college recruiters claim is missing? Focused skill workouts in addition to the games and practices of both high school and club teams.
• Although shooting workouts are imperative, so are ball handling skills, footwork, passing and cutting and a host of other parts of the game that aren’t just going to appear come game time.
• When you are shooting, be sure your goal is shots made and not shots taken. It doesn’t matter if you got in 500 shots before school if you only made 75.
• Good coaches will tell you that skill development is about repetition.
• TV coverage of both the college and WNBA game continues to grow, along with internet coverage, offering more opportunities to learn basketball from some of the best in a flat-screen classroom.
• It’s great to know that Maya Moore is a great player or that Brittney Griner is changing the game. But beyond that know what exactly it is that sets Moore apart from the rest or why Griner made such incredible strides in her game since the start of her freshman season.

To read the complete article click here

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Have you ever heard the saying “Your Attitude determines Your Altitude”.

The way you think about situations in basketball will determine how far you will get in your basketball career.

In this video, I explain how coaches determine who will get in the game during certain situations. I also talk about my philosophy of how great players become great (Next Top Baller).