High School Combine

I like the idea, I have actually wanted to do something similar around my area. I think it is naturally in all of us to compete, so I think it brings the best out in the athletes. I preach compete to my kids and they love to match themselves up to others in the area.

Great work Coach! My only recommendation would be to give them 2 attempts per station instead of one.

get their parents to sign the release form as well, or it means nothing

you would need a release form if you were planning to film the kids.

Probably a good idea to get liability release forms from all participants to help yourself should anyone get hurt or any accident occur.
Be sure you get athlete signature and parent signature, it amazes me how many times I see coaches not have parents sign as well... if you are under 18, your signature means nothing, which means for 95% of our athletes you need parental consent for everything , their signature is not legally binding.

I have run combines in the past, my suggestion to you is

Break everyone up into groups, 1 group per each station. So if you have 10 different events you are testing, then you have 10 groups, or whatever your number of tests are. They always stay together, they bring their "score cards" with them from station to station. Every group is rotated simultaneously by you and only you ( assuming you are the boss)

Have enough volunteer coaches so that each testing station has plenty of help for timers/measurers, people to explain the drill etc.

Each kid gets 2 reps, thats the only way I have ever seen a combine done, you can get away with 1 rep to each side on the 20yd shuttle (5-10-5) because one is right , 1 is left, you record their best time for their official best time

Force your volunteer coaches to work the kids fast, give them some sort of time limit they need to shoot for to get all their kids done, think of a realistic number, then tell them a few minutes less than that, so they and the kids reall go fast. Make sure as soon as one kid goes and his score is recorded the next athlete is ready to go.

The last one I did we had 2 sets of each event going at once, athletes always stayed in their group like I said above, but there would be 2 - 40 yd dash lines to get through the group faster, 2 benches, 2 shuttle areas coned off, 2 vert, 2 broad jump mats. So you can get each group through each assigned testing station as fast as possible.

Once each group is done with a station, you signal them to rotate, every group rotates clockwise (or whatever formation you choose)
and brings their scorecard with them to the next event

Your volunteer coaches/recorders never move, so they only have to learn how to do one thing

I am certain you can get it done efficiently this way,
Last one i did we did at least 300 kids this way, and we had to do indivudal drills with them after and evaluate them by position , so since you are just testing it should be fairly smooth.

I recommend getting ht and wt done and recorded on their score cards when they check in, gets it out of the way and only takes a minute. they can do this while their parents are paying or filling out waiver form.

You might get some ideas from this link: portal.haysmed.com/portal/page?_pageid=43,14519&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

They have been doing this for at least 5 years, I believe.

Great stuff. Thank you!

I like the idea because it'll take business away from the a--holes running those expensive "recruiting" combines. And, it's a great way to promote weight training.