Congrats to 1 for her new job as freshman girls basketball coach at her high school. We'll all be anxious to follow her experience on this site later in the year.
It finally stopped raining here. Yesterday was pretty wet.
I am into day 3 of the the Turkey Trot training. Day 2 was ok as different body parts ached than on Day 1. Still just doing that 2.2 mile route. I expect little company come race day in November. 3 should definitely stay inside.
Huge amount of work here. September 15th due dates and a couple of IRS audits. Ugh!
I'm working with a sales rep for WOC radio to get some Criterium Financial 15 second spots on the Friday night high school football games this Fall...starting tomorrow. The experience with the coffee event last week gave me a little motivation to get out there and do some promotional stuff for the business. If the price is right, I may even look at Iowa games for the local market. Never would have believed that I would be doing this kind of thing when I started in the accounting business 30 years ago.
Another local young professional client of the firm made the obituaries today, age 52. Life is short. Shorter for some than others. We are a family of generally healthy and long-lived members. We are very lucky. I do think that staying physically and mentally active adds years to life. Genes are the most important, but keeping busy at doing stuff helps the genes.
That's about it for now. Always glad to hear from the maddening crowd.
Be careful out there.
Philosophy, History and Commentary from Lt. PC
2 comments:
Katie,
I know you were a basketball phenom, but I have some tips for you in anticipation of your new position.
The most important advice I can give is to make the girls run killers. And don't call them sprints; stick with killers. Sometimes it's nice if you can round out a percentage to the tenths place so they have an idea of how fast you want them to run. For instance, I know I always ran faster when Dad told us to run at 87.21% than at 87.12% I mean really, it's like setting a gear on a bike. And switch up the order to make them think instead of doing 1-2-3-4. Do like 2-3-2-3-1. It's great, especially when you make them go for a long time. If you get mad, then you tell them to just do 1-2-3-4 at 100% until you tell them to stop. They'll love 'em. And if you get bored with that, pick out one girl to be 'the horse' and everyone has to stay on pace with her. Then best way to make everyone take killers seriously is to yell "ON THE LINE!!" (maybe you should practice with Matt and Lucy, or by looking in a mirror) and don't let them sit down or lean against a wall in their down time. If they do and you make them run, they'll never mess up in practice because they are so scared. And if they mess up running the full court passing drill or the full court press, make them run, because, afterall, those are simple.
Don't do the "everybody stand on the baseline and shoot free throws until you all make one but everytime someone misses, you run" game because no one likes it and it doesn't accomplish anything. Instead, have them shoot x number of free throws at the end of practice and reward them so they have a goal rather than punish them.
Also, if 27 girls try out for the team, make cuts. And get a manager, don't make the girl who you don't play make stats
I mean, I know in your position you go with what the varsity coaches kind of lay out, but if your girls are decent at all recognize their strengths and use them. Otherwise you will have lots of people bitter at you for a very long time!
wow, kristen. i just spit water out my nose. maybe you need to address some issues you've been suppressing about your basketball experiences. i'll take the advice to heart, in fact, i told the coach today that i plan on having the players do a lot of running. hey, if you can't beat 'em out run 'em. i'm off to practice yelling "ON THE LINE" without laughing....
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