History Lessons, Coaching Moves, Visualizations, and Clinics

#1 posting 9.21.2007
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HISTORY LESSON
KARE 11 has run their Athlete of the Week feature for 25 years. One of the featured players is Jenny Johnson. Johnson is the current Athletic Director at Edina and was a player at Armstrong back in the day.

COACHING NEWS
Former Roseville (2002) and Marquette (2006) player Carolyn Kieger has been named director of basketball operations at Marquette. From the Marquette Tribune.

Bloomington Jefferson girls basketball coach Andy Meinhardt gets married this weekend.

There has been a change in Grand Rapids, MN. Former girls basketball coach Adam Johnson is now a women's basketball assistant at UW Superior. Dave Lacoe is the new GR coach.

Jackson, MI is looking for a new girls basketball coach since Jeremy Patterson has moved on to be the principal of the junior class. From the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

VISUALIZATION
Brian McCormick writes about visualization and performance. 50 to 90% of athletics is mental.

SHOOTING CLINIC
Basketball Shooting Expert to Teach Minnesota Coaches How to Coach Shooting!

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. -- Tom Nordland, creator of the highly-acclaimed “Swish and” “Swish 2” shooting videos, and considered one of Minnesota’s greatest high school shooters, is going to put on five clinics around the Twin Cities Oct. 7-12 to train kids and coaches in his simple and powerful approach to shooting. He’s also going to be speaking and demonstrating at the Minnesota Girls Basketball Association Clinic Oct. 6th, ~2-3PM, at Robbinsdale Cooper High School. Tom is inspiring what he calls a “Renaissance” in shooting, a revival, a rebirth. A great shooter is within each player, just waiting to be liberated.

Tom is getting known around the world for his fresh insights and approaches into what it takes to learn and coach shooting. As the first volley in his campaign to “Teach the World to Shoot a Basketball,” Tom will put on a set of clinics for Minnesota coaches of all levels. Come and bring your friends and fellow coaches. He will also put on one clinic for Players and two combined clinics (both Coaches and Players). The locations, dates and times are:
1) For Coaches AND Players: Sunday, Oct. 7th, Edison High School: 1-5PM
2) For Coaches only: Monday, Oct. 8th, 43Hoops in Hopkins, 6-9PM
3) For Coaches only: Tuesday, Oct. 9th, Edison High School: 6-9PM
4) For Coaches AND Players: Thursday, Oct. 11th, Edison High, 5-9PM
5) For Players (coaches come observe): Friday, Oct. 12th, 43Hoops, 5-9PM

CLINIC LOCATIONS:
Edison High School, 700 22nd Ave. N.E., Minneapolis, 55418
43Hoops Basketball Academy (43hoops.com), 1002 Second Street NE, Hopkins, 55343
(43Hoops is the creation of the wonderful college and NBA player, Chris Carr.)

ENROLL ON-LINE!
For details and On Line Enrollment go to his web page, swish22.com, and click on “Clinics and Camps.” Here’s a direct link: http://www.swish22.com/Clinics_Minnesota_1007.html. Enrollment is limited.

ARTICLE ON TOM IN BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT PROGRAM!
Tom was honored by a very special article in the Boys State Tournament Basketball Program this last March. Here is a link to it:
http://www.swish22.com/Tom_MNArticle.pdf

Coaches come and learn to teach the way of shooting performed by the greatest shooters! Players come learn how to coach yourselves! Great shooting is within your reach! Visit Tom’s website (http://www.swish22.com/) for his background, endorsements, testimonials, video clips, articles and his now "100" archived Shooting Newsletters

RESCHEDULED
Due to an administrative request from the site host, CommunityHoops is rescheduling their first event to October 20th, 2007. There are currently 21 paid admissions out of a possible 80 and community hoops agreed to reschedule based upon the many volleyball conflicts with our first date.

CommunityHoops knows that this reschedule falls on MEA weekend. Most of our speakers are going to attend some of the fall league games in the following weeks and they can provide the players, parents, and coaches with more information about our event.

All e-mail questions can be directed to the event coordinator, Tony Geer at event@communityhoops.com or by calling Tony directly at 612-581-4796 after 12:30 pm any day.

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