Sunday, May 6, 2018

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HBCA News

Visit the HBCA Website for Shootouts


Make sure you check out our website for a rundown and complete list of shootouts throughout southern Indiana.


A Word from DistinXion

Team Camp Dates


Coaches,

My name is Sean Schaefer and I am overseeing the DistinXion Team Development Camps for 2018.
I am reaching out today to inform you that registration for DistinXion Team Development Camps is now available! The DistinXion Team Development Camp Xperience is not your typical team camp. Our camp focuses on the fundamental development of both the individual and the team.

I have linked to the Team Development Camp Flyer below. I have also linked to a PDF file of our Registration Form.

As a reminder, both your Varsity and Junior Varsity teams will be attending camp for free. You also have the opportunity to run your own concessions if you wish.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or daltonjudd@distinxion.org. From everybody at DistinXion, we thank you for taking on the role of hosting our camp. The use of your facilities is crucial to the enactment of our camps. We appreciate your help!

Sean Schaefer, Marketing Intern
DistinXion, A Zeller Family Program - (812) 250-9594 - www.distinXion.org

​“Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is full of gravel.”                                                                                                                     - Proverbs 20:17
While lying for gain may seem like the best way to a prize, the guilt that will build up will not be worth it. The fruits gained from being truthful are the ones that mean the most.

Question 1

When is it hard to be honest?

Question 2

​​Have you noticed how dishonesty can tear a team apart?



Drill of the Week

Advanced Team Shooting & Post Drills


Looking for a great drill to utilize with players in your summer workouts?  Here are a couple of drills that can be used in small groups and team settings to target ball handling; shooting; and post play.





Message from Coach Thompson

Quit Going Through the Motions


How many times have you said this to a player.  I know just this last week that I had a discussion with some of our players and middle school players in workouts.  I didn’t like their approach to the drills and I didn’t think that they were going very hard.  I told them several times during the workout and then at the end of the workout I reminded them that anybody can do rep 1, 2, and 3, but it’s the 20th rep that counts.  “How good are you at the end?”

Then, later this week in reading a devotional in my FCA Bible entitled, “Going Through the Motions is Not Progress” by Felicia Cromeaux, I realized that I do this too.  I go through the motions.  Have you asked yourself in your spiritual walk and in what you do as a coach, “Am I going through the motions?”

As we work to become better Christian coaches and role-models for our players, let us strive to not go through the motions.

As we prepare for the summer with our players and our programs, let us strive to not go through the motions in our coaching.

If we truly want to be better.  If we want our relationship with the Lord to be better.  If we want to be better leaders for our families.  If we want to be better coaches and make positive change in our programs, then we cannot go through the motions and just continue to do the same things over and over again.  Sometimes that may require us to come out of our comfort zones, but it must be done.

Remember, when we coach our players up in workouts, practices, and games this summer, we sometimes need to take our own advice and quit going through the motions.  This will enable us to be better each and every day as coaches, but more importantly followers of Christ.



Message from Jason Brand & Billy Holder, SW Indiana FCA

God's Word is Perfect for Coaches


READY

“All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” — 2 Timothy 3:16–17

SET

Coaches have it tough. Let’s be honest. There’s a stigma that we are all ex-jocks and not very good classroom teachers. There are many stereotypes about coaches: “They are teachers who get all the breaks without really working hard in the classroom…They get to miss faculty meetings…They eat meals with their teams that are paid for by the school…They sit down all day and hand out worksheets to their students…They think winning ballgames is the most important thing in the world.” For some coaches, these stereotypes may be true, but I know many where that is not the case.

I believe a Christian coach has an awesome responsibility. We get to form and shape and mold the minds and bodies of our nation’s future—mentally, physically, and—most importantly—spiritually. The most incredible thing about that responsibility is that we have “God’s Game Plan,” the Bible, to lead us. If we truly try to understand it, study it, claim it, memorize it, meditate upon it, pray through it, and apply it to our lives and the lives of our athletes, God will be glorified. Lives will be changed and the negative stereotypes mentioned above will not be said about us.

GO

1. Do you make an effort each day to hear, read, and study “God’s Game Plan”?
2. Do you believe that God’s Word is correct and true? If your answer is not a resounding yes, then Satan has a foothold on you and God cannot truly bless you or your ministry, as He wants to.

WORKOUT

God, please give me the desire and time each day to read Your Word. Help me to acquire Your wisdom. I pray that I will be excellent in all that I do because I am living by Your standards from Your holy Scriptures. Thank You, Father, for the “game plan” You have given us. Amen.



Upcoming FCA Events

SW Indiana FCA Spring Banquet


Coming up this week, join us at the FCA Spring Banquet featuring IU Head Football Coach Tom Allen! RSVP by clicking on the image below.



FCA Coaches Summit


Featuring 3D Coaching author, Jeff Duke, on Wednesday, July 25th. Click below to register!




Contact Us

Coach Thompson - coachthompson44@gmail.com - @coachthompson44
Luke Zeller - lukezeller@distinxion.org - @lukezeller40 and @distinxion
Nick Bartlett - nick@drdishbasketball.com
Dave Hudson - dhudson@fca.org
Jason Brand - jbrand@fca.org
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