JMU Tournament Prep


As you may already know, or will soon come to find out, I like to emphasize three areas to focus on at a tournament. This weekend at the JMU tournament is no different. I know many of you are excited about our number one seed, as well as the opportunity to play outside for the first time this year. I am too, but to often teams coming into the tournament with a one seed, focus on winning a tournament. This vague goal is often counter productive. Let's focus on how we are going to play. Defensively our focus will be active intense marks. Offensively our focus will be movement. For receivers this means active cutting to the dangerous areas in the outside lanes of the field. For handlers this means following your throws, and moving the disc quickly. Our team goal is a vocal sideline, encouraging people on defense and giving "up" calls.

It's out first tournament of the year, and there will be many mistakes made. There will be errant throws and missed opportunities. All that I ask is that you learn from these mistakes, and figure out how to limit them in the future. As always, this tournament will be a success if we come out of it a better team than we started it. The only wins and losses that matter are in the series. Take this weekend's tournament as an opportunity to learn, improve your play, and improve the teams play.

Also remember I would like to run toyota and mazda as stop disc plays.

Get your work done, so that you can focus on ultimate this weekend.

Posted: Thu - February 17, 2005 at 11:01 AM          

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