League Getting Close

It won't be long and we will be starting up with our camps and summer leagues. A sure sign that it is getting close is when our new summer league t-shirts arrive.

Jessica's T-Shirts

When you play 2 sports, you get a lot of t-shirts. What do you do with all the t-shirts? One idea is to make a quilt. Jessica Lieber has turned all of her golf and basketball t-shirts into this huge quilt- pretty impressive.

The Heat- Why???

Explain to me why the following happened in the Bulls-Heat game #1....

LeBron wears a pair of shoes he has NEVER worn before. It was his special Nike "MVP" editions.  At half time he changes into his regular shoes. Where is a player's focus when they are doing that?

James, Allen, and Wade all had plays where they missed a shot, stayed to plead their case the ref that they were fouled. While they were pleading their case, the Bulls were scoring on a 5 vs. 4 fastbreak.

Need Inspiration? Watch This!

This is pretty inspiring video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA

Buffalo Wild Wings Night

Our night at BWW with our Silent Auction will be on Wednesday, June 5. We will receive 10% of all food tickets for the evening from 4-9pm.

We will have our annual silent auction starting about 5:30pm. If you have items to donate, please contact Coach Massey.

Spring Clinics Finish Up

Our Spring Academy and Shooting Schools wrapped up this past Sunday. We had a great spring with youth players.

We had 60 girls involved in our Spring Academy, working on basic offensive skills. And then we had 30 girls involved in our weekly Shooting School to work on shooting mechanics.

We look forward to our summer camp program, which will start up with high school players on May 29, and then our grade school/junior high sessions will tip off on Monday, June 3. Right now we have over 100 girls enrolled in our summer programs.

Should Rose Be Playing?

This is from ESPN....

Steve Kerr said Monday he thinks Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose "owes it to his teammates" to play if the only obstacle is confidence as the banged-up Bulls take on theBrooklyn Nets in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. 

Does Rose owe it to Bulls to play if healthy?

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  86%
  Yes
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  14%
  No

 (Total votes: 7,103)

The one-year anniversary of Rose tearing his left ACL passed Sunday. He underwent surgery on May 12 and the prognosis for recovery was 8-12 months. ESPN Chicago reported on March 9 that Rose had been medically cleared to play and he has been scrimmaging five-on-five since Feb. 19. Indications are Rose has regained his explosiveness and has looked dominant in practice, but he still hasn't played this season and has said it's a matter of regaining his confidence. He said he's not certain when he'll return. 

"I think the Bulls have handled it the right way," Kerr said on "The Carmen & Jurko Show" on ESPN 1000. "Err on the side of caution, tell him, 'Hey look, when you're ready, you come back.' 

Jessica Lieber Signs with UIS

Jessica Lieber signed to play golf at University of Illinois- Springfield.

Jessica will join another Streaks' alum, Sara Baker at UIS. Sara will be a senior on the volleyball team next year.

The following is from the Register-Mail by Matt Wheaton.

Jessica Lieber has been playing golf only since her freshman year at Galesburg High School.

However, the GHS senior has worked countless hours at improving her game and it paid off Thursday when she signed a national letter of intent to play golf at the University of Illinois — Springfield, an NCAA Division II school.

"I really like the school itself and I love the golf program," said Lieber, who shoots an 18-hole average of 75 and 9-hole average of 38. "They just got a new coach last year, so they are building up the program. I'm excited to play with the incoming recruits."

Lieber, who made four straight appearances at the IHSA Class AA state girls golf tournament, joins a UIS team that finished eighth at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship in the 2011-12 season.

Research on Coaching Aggression

New Research Shows Effects of Verbally Aggressive Conduct in Coaching

April 12, 2013, 11:32 am

By Brad Wolverton

To what extent can coaches use negative tactics to motivate athletes? And what impact does that approach have on coaches’ credibility?

Those questions, which have taken on new meaning in the aftermath of the Mike Rice firing at Rutgers University, are the subject of research to be published this summer in the International Journal of Sport Communication.

The main takeaway: Verbally aggressive language doesn’t work, even in an environment where athletes have been conditioned to expect it, the researchers found.

Tryouts

The following is a great story from a St. Paul coach/ teacher...

St. Paul coach: The high school sports culture

Parents have suddenly been given a green light to publicly and privately harangue the efforts of a coach — often undermining their child’s enjoyment of the sport.

Article by: Kevin A. Keto

Updated: April 11, 2013 - 9:09 PM

The gym was empty except for three coaches and three hopeful athletes. The three walk-ons, competing for the final roster spot on a Big East men’s college basketball team, had already completed shooting, ball handling and defensive drills. The head coach gathered them at midcourt and explained that the next drill would be based on a game scenario.

“Your teammate,” he explained, “makes a lay up and draws a foul. The opposing coach immediately calls time out. You are sitting in the last seat on our bench. When I blow the whistle, demonstrate how you would react and how you would greet your teammates as they jog towards the bench.”

Summer Camp Signups

Individuals can still sign up for Streaks Summer Camps.

Streaks Girls Basketball Summer Camps

 

GRADE SCHOOL GIRLS

Grade School Camp- Girls who will be in grades 2 thru 5 next school year.

1:30-3:00pm. Monday thru Thursdays- June 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13. Camps in Wicall Gym at GHS.

 

Summ It Up

A nice review on a must read book about Pat Summitt....

By Pat Burns of the Wisconsin State Journal-

In many ways, "Sum It Up" is a memoir that came too soon.

Last year, at age 59, legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt stepped away from the job she'd held since she was 22 years old because of early-onset Alzheimer's.

That makes it a memoir that came just in time. Not because of memory issues — Summitt speaks frankly about how her mind works now, and many of the interviews for this book were done in the late '90s. Instead, in a season where her voice wasn't heard as a coach, it was heard through her marvelous skill as a storyteller.

And what a story it is. "Sum It Up" succeeds because it does what a memoir should: It reflects on how its author got from point A to point B, what made them who they are today. In fact, the best parts of this book have very little to do with basketball. At its best, "Sum It Up" goes beyond being a sports memoir the way Patti Smith's "Just Kids" isn't about the rise of a punk rock star. It's about what once was, and how it all changed.