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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Jun 4, 2007 20:10:19 GMT -6
We are starting a youth league this fall & I am looking for effective ways to involve varsity players in the excitement of a youth league. Does anyone have any suggestions or tried & true ways of doing this?
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Post by brophy on Jun 4, 2007 20:13:03 GMT -6
our varsity players always had to help coach during youth camp
they also had to 'volunteer' to ref the youth games.
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Post by coachjaz on Jun 4, 2007 20:18:44 GMT -6
If the youth games are played on the weekends, have the varsity players be "coaches" Allow them to wear their jerseys to the games.
Have the varsity kids speak to the youngsters could work too if it cannot be arranged to have them coach.
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Post by kboyd on Jun 4, 2007 20:20:48 GMT -6
Our youth league is in the spring, so quite a few varsity players help out coaching and officiating.
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Post by coacher on Jun 4, 2007 20:24:23 GMT -6
They can help out at your youth football camps. They can ref and make a few extra bucks on Saturdays. You can have a Youth football night during one of your home games to where all the teams get announced before the game. We let our Youth Football scrimage at the stadium before pregame of one of our scrimages. Our booster club loves it because it brings in a huge gate and concessions. We also have youth football workouts after the middle school football workouts and some of our Varsity kids help out with it. They love it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2007 21:04:50 GMT -6
Our players run a youth camp; we coaches actually don't do anything but supervise. The players themselves run the games and lead the drills and instruction. It works out real well. The only youth league in my entire area is ran through the Quincy, IL YMCA and it is a fall league so our players don't really have the time or opportunity to do anything with it.
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Post by coachwarner on Jun 4, 2007 21:51:25 GMT -6
we do all the things coacher talked about. Our program has a pep-rally bonfire. the JV & Varsity
players are invited. football & cheerleading. all teams and players are announced. cheerleaders all do a cheer. A great night of community football. whats really neat is the little guys 5-8 yr olds ,
run around asking Varsity players for their autograph. Varsity guys get a big kick out of it.
Many of the Varsity players come back and help coach year after year. some travel home from college just on weekends just to continue to be a part of football. Varsity players also help out at our annual Bowl Classic Weekend working chains , announcing or spotting in press box
A great weekend of football. teams come from all over Pa. N.Y. Maryland New Jersey.
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Post by kdcoach on Jun 5, 2007 14:14:48 GMT -6
We do it two ways. Every year we have 4-5 of our high school kids that coach our youth tackle team with the Dads that coach at that level. In the spring we have a youth flag football "league" that has 8 teams in it grades K-3 and our high school kids coach and ref in that. A lot of them do it for their grad project. It works out well for all.
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Post by briangilbert on Jun 5, 2007 14:50:45 GMT -6
We had our youth teams come during the season toward the end of practice and "scrimmage" our Varsity Defense. We let them score TD's on us, and we allow ourselves to get pancaked and we missed tackles on purpose. It was a lot of fun for everyone involved.
Obviously we never actually touched the youth players, but we put on a huge act as a team as if we were trying.
Youth kids loved it!
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Post by coachcb on Jun 5, 2007 19:35:16 GMT -6
-check out/check in gear
-coach at camps
-run a joint spaghetti feed/meet and greet
-have them run the chains at game
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Post by coach79 on Jun 5, 2007 21:57:19 GMT -6
I just e-mailed Tom Smythe at Evergreen HS in vancouver, WA. about doing the exact thing you guys are talking about. weird
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