Free, research-backed guides written for coaches. Drills, score sheets, evaluation forms, and the data behind youth sports.
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.
Free practice plan templates and sport-specific drill libraries. Session structures, age-specific plans, and skill drills for basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball, softball, and more.
Free printable tryout evaluation forms for multiple sports. Rating rubrics, scoring guides, and youth-specific criteria from youth rec through high school.
10 guides →Free printable lineup cards, roster templates, rotation charts, and formation diagrams for team sports at every level.
17 guides →Free printable score sheets and stat sheets for a wide range of sports. Game scoring templates, stat tracking forms, and abbreviation references.
22 guides →Free online sports calculators and generators. SLG, WHIP, OPS, OBP, ERA, WAR, batting average, bowling handicap calculators, and round robin tournament generator.
4 guides →Research-backed youth sports statistics, participation trends, injury data, and certification guides. Data from Project Play, SFIA, and peer-reviewed sources.
16 guides →Compare sports scheduling software, team management tools, and club apps. Feature comparisons, free options, and buying guides for coaches and administrators.
9 guides →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.
Thirteen fun soccer games grouped by format: tag and reaction games, dribbling and relay races, shooting and target games, and passing and team games. Each game names its setup, a coaching cue, the skill it secretly trains, and the common fault with a fix. Includes an exportable session builder and an age-scaling guide from U6 through high school and adults.
Fourteen serving drills organized by serve type and outcome. Groove a repeatable toss, build the flat heel-of-hand float and the topspin snap, add jump-serve footwork, then serve the deep zone 1 and 5 corners and the passer seam before finishing with pressure reps that hold up at 23-23. Each drill carries a rep count, a cue, and a make-standard you can score.
The cross-sport hub behind every tryout. Six things coaches score at any tryout, from athleticism to compete level to position fit, laid out in a criteria table with a cross-sport example of each. Then the four drill types every session needs, one worked from a different sport, and a routing map to position-by-position drills for soccer, volleyball, softball, baseball, basketball, hockey, and football.
Thirteen drills for the coach with a clipboard, each one a scored read. Time home-to-first and long-toss for measurables, run hitting stations that weight the bunt and the lefty slap, hit ground balls and the 3-2-1 infield burst, then grade pitchers, catchers, middles, and outfielders on their own jobs. Includes a position-marker table sorting strong signs from red flags, a two-hour run sheet, and the fastpitch specifics that set softball apart.
Kids stop playing when the sport stops being fun, and the research points straight at coaching. This synthesis pulls together why young athletes quit, the age dropout clusters, and why the famous 70 percent by 13 stat does not hold up. Then it lays out seven coaching systems that address the actual mechanism behind dropout, each tied to a peer-reviewed finding and a place to build it into your program.
Quitting rarely arrives as an announcement. It shows up first as attendance creep, effort that fades in drills, a player who stops joking with teammates. This is the coach's early-warning system: the observable signals across a season and a systematic response to each, drawn from the dropout and motivation research rather than the parent-facing advice that fills the search results.
Fun is a measured taxonomy, not a vague hope. This guide breaks down Amanda Visek's 11 fun-factors and the fun ethos, then turns each factor into a practice move you can run this week. Backed by the mastery-climate research and honest about why the recycled 70 percent dropout stat needs a caveat.
The signature sign of burnout is falling performance while training holds or climbs. This guide pairs the medical warning signs from pediatric sports-medicine sources with a coach's load-management system: cap weekly hours near the athlete's age, write in rest days and a real off-season, back a second sport, and track load trends instead of single sessions. Includes a three-part sign table and the six moves that keep burnout from ever appearing.
Fifteen drills built to score players while they run, grouped by what a tryout has to read. A technical screen for first touch and passing, a speed-and-1v1 block that turns fitness and duels into numbers, position stations for goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards, and small-sided games that expose decisions. Includes a position-by-position marker table, a two-hour run of show, and a plan that turns the drills you pick into your first practice once the roster is set.
Eleven drills built to score players while they run, grouped by what a tryout has to evaluate. Movement and jump, ball control under a live serve, position stations for setters, hitters, middles, and liberos, and a competitive wash game that shows who communicates and competes. Includes a position-by-position marker table, a 90-minute run of show, and a plan that turns the drills you pick into your first practice once the roster is set.
A full weekly off-season program with sets, reps, and skill blocks for the individual work a player does outside team practice, plus how the plan shifts across pre-season and in-season, home and youth versions, and the 3-3-3 rule and Kobe's off-season routine explained. Closes with a way to assign and track individual workouts across a whole roster.
Striveon helps you plan practices, track attendance, and follow athlete development, all in one place. You bring the expertise, Striveon brings the structure.
