Edina 9th Grade Girls Basketball: 12-17-2007 Weekly Update #4

Weekly Update

Every week to two weeks, we will post our weekly update that will provide information on what we are working on, the upcoming schedule of events, and where each girl will be playing. Although this is outlined in advance, we appreciate your understanding that circumstances will sometimes require us to be flexible and deviate from our original assignments and schedule.

Current Focus

This week we will continue to work on offensive and defensive schemes. Our defense has continued to improve. We’ve seen more ball pressure (but need to force our opponent to their weakness) and better denial position. We must continue to jump to ball more (on deny and help position) to make it more difficult for our opponent to move the ball. Our help defense is much better. We sill need to improve “vision” on the ball and our person we are guarding. We are beginning to make contact when boxing out, but must push back more and box out every time rather than once in a while. We have been (and will continue to) focus on shooting in practice resulting in a more aggressive offensive approach to scoring. Although the shots have not fallen as much as our team would like, we are definitely creating more scoring opportunities. We continue to spend more time working on developing fundamental skills than learning plays as that will help our players to compete at a higher level. That being said, we will review our offense and continue to emphasize the importance of running an offense.

Each week we focus on developing shooting (including layups), ball handling and passing skills. Players will participate in the free-throw ladder. We always work on transition, emphasizing the fast break. We will reinforce boxing out and defensive position. And we will use daily game situations (controlled 5 on 5) to reinforce all skills and schemes taught. We have seen steady improvement thanks to the hard work and coachability of our players.

Current Roster

We expect to make some changes to the current roster (A, Shared, B designations) later this week.

A Team	Shared 2A-1B	Share 1A-2B	B Team
Sarah E. (G)	Cori (G)	Andrea (G)	Sasha (G)
Paige (G)	Brooke (G)	Kirstin (G)	Haley (F)
Rebecca (F)	Emily (G)	Karen (F)	Katherine (F)
	Sarah R. (G)	Kelsey (F)
	Julia (F)	Olivia (F)
	Tess (F)



Injuries

The roster is subject to change at anytime. Practices, games, injuries and illness will affect the distribution of players.

Weekly Schedule

(Subject to Change/Adjustments—Thanks for your understanding)

Date	Event	Time	Location	Notes
12-17	Away Game @ Holy Angels	6:00—A 7:00—B	Holy Angels	White Uniforms Bus: 5:00
12-18	Away Game @ Shakopee	4:45—A 5:45—B	Shakopee Junior High	White Uniforms Bus: 3:45
12-19	Practice/ Officials’ Clinic	2:45-5:15	VVMS	Very Important Practice
12-20	Away Game @ Prior Lake	3:45—A 4:45—B	Prior Lake H.S.	White Uniforms Bus: 3:05
12-21	Practice	2:45-5:00	VVMS	Have a great Winter Break!