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First, KYBA would like to say a big "THANK YOU" to all of our coaches for agreeing to coach a group of athletes who need a coach to enjoy everything that sport has to offer: fun, competition, friendship, and personal growth.
Taking the time from their personal schedule to devote to the development of young people who will benefit from their presence, and their planning, teaching, and their personal involvement in making sport a fun place to be. We do really appreciate your effort.
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This page is intented to be an active, dynamicaly updated source of information for our coaches in KYBA. We are trying to provide the content that would be of great value for all coaches of all levels of experience, from beginners to more experienced and advanced ones.
This can be seen as a work in progress. If anyone has a good link or info to add to this page here, or to ask a question, make a suggestion, offer an advice and or simply help us build this coaching resource better - just send an email to Coaching Feedback. We would greatly appreciate your feedback.
The Kanata Youth Basketball Association is pleased to announce that Dean Tanasijevic would be Technical Director during season 2009 - 2010..
Most recently Dean Tanasijevic had been coaching KYBA U19 Junior Girls, who were in 2009 the best ranked Junior Girls team in the Capital Region (6th in Ontario). Dean is NCCP Level 3 coach who is attending numerous coaching clinics throughout North America as well as practices of Canada's National Teams.
Along with Milan Colic (VP Competitive), Dean will be working closely with our coaches, players and the executive to improve the skill level of play throughout the KYBA organization.
If you have any questions or you need an advice about the practices or games strategies, various drills to improve basketball skills, offence and defence, how to set different plays you can ask Dean Tanasijevic by sending an email to: ask the coach. Some of these Q&A will be posted here as well.
The Coaching Basics, created by Lorne Adams and supported by Sport Alliance of Ontario and the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, is a guide to getting started in youth coaching, which includes advice on growth and development, organizing a great practice, and working with sport parents.
You can downloaded this great document from here.
This is a very informative stuff, an excellent starting point for all of our coaches as well as any other volunteers who would like to step up and become a part of Kanata Youth Basketball Association.
Like any sport or discipline, basketball has its own language. Here is a link where you can find and learn some basic Basketball Terminology.
It is a definitely a good starting point for a coach with not much previous experience with the game or for a coach who is not quite familiar with basketball specific terms.
In addition, some examples of helpful player's stats charts and sheets can be downloaded from here:
- The Coach's Clipboard - Drills, tactics, game and practice strategies, offence and defence theory with detailed instructions and video-clips. Useful for all levels.
- Basketball Highway - an excellent basketball web portal. A lots of useful information and relevant links for coaches of all levels of expertise.
- Online Basketball Camp - Video clips with the instructions for various basketball skills.
- Coach Your Kids This is the extensive resource center for a volunteer coach of a kids' team
- Hoop Tactics - CyberSports' Ernie Woods teams up with retired NBA coach Bob Kloppenburg for an in-depth look into the various basketball techniques and strategies of the game. A lot of detailed
- Basketball Plays and Drills - Nice descriptions of various plays - offence and defence. Includes "Basketball Playbook" - a free software package to help a coach prepare for practices and games.
Kanata Youth Basketball Association.www.kanatabasketball.ca