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Practice Plan Template (Free, 45 Min to 2 Hours)

Sport-agnostic practice plan templates for 45, 60, 90 minute and 2 hour sessions. Blank printable blocks for warm-up, skill stations, team drills, and cool-down, a six-element checklist for what a good plan includes, a five-step build process, a format comparison across Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and web apps, and links into 16 sport-specific plans covering baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, football, hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, tennis, cheerleading, and more.

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Volleyball Blocking Drills: Timing, Hands, Footwork, Reads

Fifteen blocking drills grouped by the five blocking skills: stance and timing, hand technique, lateral footwork, reading the attack, and the double block. Targets scale with each card's level, a two-station 15-minute slot runs the drills with a whole team on one net, and a rule table sets FIVB and USA Volleyball beside the stricter high school net and centerline rules.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Tryout & Evaluation Forms

Making Tryout Cuts: How to Decide and How to Tell Players

A ten-step cut protocol you can print, from setting roster spots before day one to locks, bubble players, second looks, and pre-written tie rules. Then the words: five copyable texts for the pre-tryout parent handout, the cut, last year's player, the parent call, and the written note, plus roster limits and game formats by sport from FIBA, FIVB, U.S. Soccer, and Little League.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Practice Plans & Drills

How to Beat a 1-3-1 Zone Defense: A Diagrammed Playbook

Seven counters to the 1-3-1, each drawn against the zone's own rotations and naming the defender it punishes: the even front, a baseline runner, the high-post flash, screens on the middle and baseline defenders, and trap exits. Plus a plan for teams without shooters, half-court line trap rules by level, and an editable playbook page.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Practice Plans & Drills

1-1-3 Zone Defense: Pass-by-Pass Rotations & Youth Rules

Eleven play diagrams of the 1-1-3 match-up zone, eight of them on a printable rotation sheet you can edit: who takes the ball on each pass, skip and dribble. Bigs-out and guards-out versions, how it compares with the 1-3-1 and 2-3, how offenses beat it, and the youth no-zone rules that still count a match-up as a zone.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Practice Plans & Drills

5-Out Offense Basketball: Rules, Reads & Readiness Check

The five rules of 5-out motion in teaching order, a fill map for every pass, and the skill and starter drill behind each rule. Counters for switching, sagging, denial and zone defenses, plus a printable readiness sheet rated on a ten-level scale before you install.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Practice Plans & Drills

Wrestling Drills by Position: Neutral, Bottom, and Top

Nineteen drills: thirteen filed by folkstyle starting position, from the stance mirror to the takedown-to-near-fall sequence, plus four for the edge and conditioning and two for freestyle and Greco-Roman. Each card has a cue, the fault that breaks it and a level target, built on the NFHS takedown, near-fall and locked-hands rules, with a printable preseason position mix.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Lineup, Roster & Rotation Templates

Volleyball Roster Template (Free Editable Sheet)

An editable season roster seeded by role, from two setters through to two defensive specialists, with the NFHS and USA Volleyball rules on jersey numbers, liberos, substitutions, and team size, plus the line that separates a season roster from the lineup sheet the referee checks.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Lineup, Roster & Rotation Templates

Soccer Roster Template (Free and Editable)

An editable season roster seeded with Striveon's 13 soccer position codes, plus secondary position, birth year, squad, a roster-versus-lineup comparison, and coverage prompts for 4v4 through 11v11.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Lineup, Roster & Rotation Templates

Baseball Depth Chart Template (Free and Editable)

Two charts, because baseball needs two: an editable fielding chart that ranks first through third string at every spot but pitcher, and a separate staff chart ordered by usage from the Game 1 starter down to the emergency arm, with the state-by-state rule that decides who is actually available.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Lineup, Roster & Rotation Templates

Baseball Roster Template (Printable and Editable)

An editable season roster seeded with the scorebook positions 1 through 9, a printable sheet with bats/throws and league age, a separate parent contact sheet, and the Little League pitch count and rest tables that decide how many pitchers a roster has to carry.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Sports & Coaching Research

Swim Team Progress Tracking: A Coach's Guide

The three layers a swim coach should record for every swimmer, what to track for each stroke, what realistic time drops look like across a season, how age-group standards shift the meaning of a swim, and the World Aquatics touch and turn rules that decide whether a time is even legal.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
Sports & Coaching Research

How to Track Athlete Progress in Track and Field

The three layers a track coach should record for every athlete, what to measure for sprints, distance, jumps, and throws, what realistic gains look like across a season, how age divisions change the meaning of a mark, and the tracking habits that keep the numbers honest.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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