Training & Games

#2 posting 9.19.2006
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TRAINING & GAMES
Brian McCormick talks about the importance of training to improve quickness. I happen to agree. To many players fall in the trap of thinking games are going to get the player better. I have seen too many games and too many players that have not markedly improved from when I first saw them. The same items that needed improving in the winter still needed addressing in the summer. No one snapped my head this summer from previous watching like "Wow! she really improved!"

Players need to face up to their limitations, work on the less glamourous items, and not fall into the hamster in the wheel trap where they just run and run and don't get anywhere.

At Osseo I used to run the weight room in the spring and during the summer. It definitely helped verticles and quickness. Of course when the interval training came, players were scarce. But it saved some players from the cuts, and helped make all state players out of a few more.

MICHIGAN LATE GAMES
Kellie Watson of Ionia had a career best 41 in an overtime loss to Jackson NW 68-65. Here is the Ionia Sentinel-Standard with the win that got away.

RANKINGS
It seems everyone has a poll in Michigan. The AP is the main poll, but the UP has their own little poll. Newspapers also have area polls. Here are few to sort out.
South Christian is 3rd in the State AP B poll behind Detroit Country Day and DeWitt. But polls haven't always been kind to SC. From the Grand Rapids Press.
Chelsea has improved from a year a go by out working opponents and is now 8th in the Ann Arbor News Coaches poll.
Pickford is rated #1 in the UP D poll. This is the first time Pickford has ruled the roost. From the Escanaba Daily Press.
The Flint Journal has there own top 10.

INJURY REPORT
MI
Miranda DeKuiper of Ludington is out with a knee injury. She is likely done for the year. Story from the Muskegon Chronicle.

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Next up: tomorrow morning with the Michigan results