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Doug DeVries has been working in youth basketball for over 25 years. He has a passion to see sports in balance in life, for kids to thrive in sports, and for parents to enjoy the entire process.
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How to Text or Email your Team

Texting & emailing schedule updates, practice times, and game times can be tedious. Get setup in TourneyBuddy and you can text or email your players & parents quickly and easily. Check it out.

Simplified Communications

  1. Login to Tourney.Life and click “My Teams” to add your Team.
  2. Enter each Player’s Name, Email, Cell-phone info.
  3. Click “Text Team”, Type your message, Click send.

It really is that simple. And once you’ve added your team you can easily Print your Team Roster also.

Give it a try and let us know what you think of the feature.

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Spurs Philosophy System Basics – Gregg Popovich – Basketball Fundamentals

NBA coaching legend, 5x NBA champion and 3x NBA coach of the year, goes through the philosophy system basics of his San Antonio Spurs. A must watch for all basketball enthusiasts!

Spurs Philosophy System Basics – Gregg Popovich – Basketball Fundamentals

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AAU Cares: AAU National Office Brings Clothes, Water and Non-Perishable Items to Those Impacted by Hurricane Harvey

HOUSTON, Texas (Aug. 30, 2017) – National staff members from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) will return to Houston, home of the 50th annual AAU Junior Olympic Games in 2016, to bring more than 10,000 items of clothing, dozens of cases of bottled water and various non-perishable items to those impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

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Why Competitive Youth Basketball is Awesome

Competitive sports are often criticized and when balance is lost, it can be a bad experience for everyone. But Anne Josephson came up with 15 reasons competitive sports are worthwhile & helpful. I’ve summarize her list below.  You can read her full article here.

Focus on the Process & Less on the Results

Competition can:

  1. Drive us to learn faster.
  2. Teach us to bring our best effort.
  3. Teach us to manage our nerves.
  4. Help us conquer fears.
  5. Teaches us to take risks.
  6.  Teaches us to cope when things don’t go our way.
  7. Help us with goal setting.
  8. Teach us to play by the rules.
  9. Help us to learn to win and lose with grace.
  10. Be fun.
  11. Build self-esteem.
  12. Teaches us commitment.
  13. Give us a different community of friends.
  14. Provide opportunities for travel.
  15. Cause kids to perform better in school.

Josephson, in her article, provides back-story and additional information about each of the 15.

Bottom line, when keep in balance & with a focus on these 15 things, you can help your children thrive and develop in the context of competitive youth basketball. And if you have been involved in youth basketball for awhile you have tasted the thrill of victory and the pride in watching your children succeed. If success has not yet come, take pride in your child’s character to strive to succeed. It is preparing them for their future.

 

 

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PGC/Glazier Coaching Clinic

Winning coaches with a history of success give practical presentations on how you can implement their tactics. More than 50 sessions per clinic, arranged in three-session blocks so speakers can go deep on their topics. We cover offense, defense, strength, conditioning and more. All of your school coaches—including boys, girls and feeder programs—can attend any or all of our clinics through the year for one staff rate.

PGC/Glazier Coaching Clinic

Explore more videos from PGC at their YouTube Channel.

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Youth Basketball & AAU Tournament

There are literally thousands of youth basketball tournament throughout the USA and Canada each year. Most AAU tournaments occur in the Spring after the High School and Middle School seasons have completed. There are several websites to explore if you are looking for listings in your area.

  • Tourney.Life – of course, we like this site because we built it. But it is free and easy to post your tournament details.
  • ExposureEvents – they provide listings for several sports, but have a huge list of basketball tournaments, but tournament directors and organizers do have to pay to take advantage of all the features.
  • ACAHoops.com -they have a decent list of tournaments, but also charge to post your tournament.
  • AAUBoysBasketball.org – of course the AAU site does show many tournaments as well, but it does not represent a comprehensive list of opportunities for your team.
  • …and there are many more to explore.

So as a coach start searching to find the perfect opportunity for your team.

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7 Reasons Your Players can’t shoot the basketball

We love reading Coach Mac’s emails. Learn more about his programs and philosophy at ChampionshipCoachingCourse.com

Here is his list of the 7 reasons your players are not great shooters (yet). Continue reading “7 Reasons Your Players can’t shoot the basketball”