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.
12 guides →Free printable lineup cards, roster templates, rotation charts, and formation diagrams for team sports at every level.
21 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.
18 guides →Compare sports scheduling software, team management tools, and club apps. Feature comparisons, free options, and buying guides for coaches and administrators.
9 guides →Editable 60, 90 and 120 minute plans for the first kid-pitch season, with a pitcher-catcher block at every practice. Includes the USA Softball rules that change 10U practice, a pitcher strike log, steal and dropped third strike defense, and the order to teach your first six practices.
What 86 public tryout forms actually score in baseball and softball, basketball, ice hockey, soccer and volleyball, with the criteria sorted into eight categories, from skill and game sense to attitude. Sport-by-sport tables, what each sport's forms ask of a player on tryout day, how often forms name coachability or effort, how many use a scale or a timed test, and the method behind every figure.
Session length, sessions per week and practice-to-game ratio for soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, football and lacrosse, each figure linked to the governing body's own document. Plus the hours-equal-age rule in four versions, rest-day limits, and where the guidelines contradict each other.
Fourteen conditioning drills that keep the ball in play, built into the six volleyball skills that carry the movement: reception footwork, block slides, the approach, the jump serve, floor recovery and transition. Every jumping card states its jumps per player or how to count them, a weekly jump log follows the jumper's knee research, and a season table cuts the volume as matches pile up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Striveon helps you plan practices, track attendance, and follow athlete development, all in one place. You bring the expertise, Striveon brings the structure.
