The Warriors Way: Ultimate Book of Netball Sessions

By Samantha Griffin

The Warriors Way is designed for coaches and teachers who are looking for fully planned netball sessions to bring out the best in their netballers.
The book aims to provide a complete season of sessions covering essential technical skills, attacking and defensive principles, tactics, and game management. Sessions contain a variety of progressive drills to help players develop their skills, decision making, leadership and knowledge of the game. The structure allows for sessions to be adapted to suit all ages and abilities.
The contents of this book has been successfully integrated to improve the quality and consistency of coaching delivered by all coaches at Charnwood Rutland Netball Club. As a result, the club has seen a dramatic rise in individual and team development. I hope this book can be a supportive guide to your own netball experiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728356273

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The

Warriors

Way

Contents

Coaching Expectations

Attacking

Passing/Ball Handling

Movement

Footwork

Feeding a holding and moving player

Timing and Attacking Strategies

Creating space

Attacking ball through court

Options

Defence

Stage 1 Defence Ball Side

Dictating High and Wide

Dictating on and off the body

Marking the Ball (2nd Stage)

Near Side/Far Side Defence

Intercepting

Unit Defence

Transition

Strategies Part 1

Restart Session

Centre Pass Attack Principles

Centre Pass Strategies

Defensive Backline

Centre Pass Defence

Circle rotation and hitting circle edge

Attacking and Defensive Unit

Options

Strategies Part 2

Restart Session

Vision

Hitting Circle Edge

Robust Player applied on Defensive Set Ups

Zero Phase

Dealing with a tall GS/GK

Reading Off

Strategies Part 3

Moving forward to the ball under fatigue

Defensive Set Ups

Near Side/Far Side

Consistency

Long and short option

Transition

Options

Being Efficient

Essentials

Movement

Possession

Attacking angles

Defensive principles, dictating high + wide

Decision Making: Possession under pressure and fatigue

Passing

Overloading the Attack

GS Session

Effective Warm Up

About the Author

I first discovered netball at primary school in Leicestershire. I started coaching at the age of 15 as a volunteer at my local club, and my passion for the sport has continued to grow. Since then I have always been determined to develop performance netball in my home region to offer opportunities to all. I am currently head coach of Charnwood Rutland Netball Club and U19 Loughborough Lightning Head Coach.

After six years of teaching PE, I set up a coaching business with my sister, Athletic Performance Coaching, which specialises in helping athletes reach their full potential across a number of different sports, including netball.

About the book

As a teacher and a coach, I found it challenging to gain access to innovative new drills that I could work into the different stages of a season.

So, I started writing this book to better support my team of coaches. I hope this book can help other coaches and teachers by providing ideas of how to achieve different targets each week, whatever level they are working at.

This book contains full session plans that you can follow or adapt to suit your group. The sessions are broken into stages that are intended to fit around natural breaks in the year. Each session aims to increase player’s knowledge and understanding of the game and apply new strategies and tactics for attacking and defending during game situations. Ensure you consider what you want to achieve from your sessions to find and adapt appropriate plans from this book.

I believe that warm-ups are an important part of each session that players can lead. Once my players fully understand what I expect from a warm-up each week, I encourage different players to lead them to help promote strong leadership and decision-making across the whole team. Figure out what your expectations are and build them into your sessions to develop your players as a fully functioning team. Set your standards high, work hard and you will create a successful environment. These sessions have helped me to develop an entire club and achieve national success – I hope this book helps you achieve your goals too.

Key:

F = Feeder

A = Attacker (Purple)

D = Defender (Green)

----= Path of the ball

CPs = Coaching points

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Coaching Expectations

Be Professional

• Always be on time

• Take a register

• Wear appropriate kit

• Ensure sessions are planned

• Equipment is ready and checked

Create a positive environment

• Encourage communication, get athletes talking to each other

• Be approachable

• Make the session fun

• Ensure the session is safe

• Establish a supportive learning culture

• Provide feedback

• Celebrate success

High expectations

• Set goals

• Plan and delivery sessions that support learning

• Motivate and encourage all to be the best they can

• Ensure the session flows, progress drills

• Set the intensity of the session

• Work to achieve session aims

• Provide successful communication

• Set your own Non-negotiables

Attacking

Key: Possession

Passing/Ball Handling

Aim: For all players to understand and apply the correct technique for each pass.

Warm up: All players have a netball or tennis ball moving around within the court. When the coach shouts numbers the players apply the action, coach will also call a change in dynamic movement:

1. Throw the ball up and clap 3x before catching

2. Move the ball around the body whilst moving

3. Figure of 8 with the ball between the legs

4. Find a partner and make 5 passes, communicate who passes over/chest

Agility/Fitness: In pairs player ‘A’ passes the ball against the wall, whilst player ‘B’ completes sprint work for 1min, then change. Complete with all 5 of the below passes:

1. Right hand shoulder pass: CPs, start with the ball on right hand opposite ear, left hand supports the front, left leg steps, follow through the pass with right hand fingers finishing where you want the ball to go.

2. Left hand shoulder pass: CPs, start with the ball on left hand opposite ear, right hand supports the front, right leg steps, follow through the pass with left hand fingers finishing where you want the ball to go.

3. Chest pass: CPs, ‘W’ shape behind the ball, step in, push the ball from the chest to opposite players chest, ball travels flat and