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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Practice Plans & Drills

Rugby Drills: Build a Whole Training Night, U12 to Senior

You are the forwards coach, the backs coach and the first aid kit, and Thursday is ninety minutes on half a pitch. This is how one training night holds a squad of mixed ages and confidence: five blocks in the order a session actually runs, twenty drills that each name the error you will meet and the level a player reaches next, a printable plan, a variant for the night only eleven turn up, and the age-grade rules that decide what your U12s are allowed to do in contact.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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Rugby Tackling Drills for Safe, Confident Contact

Fifteen tackling drills climbing a contact ladder: body position with no impact, then pads, then body on body at walking pace, then angles at speed, then a live contest. Every drill names the fault, the fix, and whether the next stage is safe yet. Built on World Rugby Law 14 and the Tackle Ready stages, with a tackle-height table covering England adult and age-grade rules and a U12 worked example from RFU Regulation 15.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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Rugby Passing Drills: Fix an Attack That Stalls Wide

Fifteen passing drills for the attack that looks fine in midfield and dies before the wing: both hands from a standing start, the pass on the move, catch-pass without stalling the ball, pop and offload at the contact edge, and full-line width under pressure. Carries the forward-pass law as a coaching consequence rather than a recital, plus a 75-minute passing night and a readiness ladder keyed to Striveon's six tracked Ball Handling skills.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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Rugby Rucking Drills: 15 Drills for the Breakdown

Fifteen drills following one breakdown in order: body height, ball placement, arriving through the gate, the roles of the first three support players, and the contest. World Rugby Laws 15, 14, and 10 are translated into lines you can say to a twelve-year-old, and the junior progression is anchored to the RFU age-grade contest numbers, one against one at U10 through to uncapped at U12, with an IRFU pointer alongside.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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Small-Sided Soccer Games: Formats, Sizes & When to Use

A coaching toolkit sorted by number, 1v1 through 6v6: pitch sizes, what each format develops, coaching cues with common faults and fixes, a format-by-objective table, and the US Youth Soccer age standards.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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8U Baseball Practice Plan (Free PDF Templates & Drills)

Printable 45 and 60 minute plans for ages 7-8, a coach-pitch drill library sorted by skill, a first-year beginner progression, and an 8U skills breakdown by area and by numbered position (1-9) built on Striveon's six-area baseball framework.

By Riku Pelkonen·Last verified
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