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DiscNW is proud to partner with the ever-growing list of amazing coaches who are stepping up to share their expertise and insight. Each workshop is free and open to the first 100 folks to log on live. The workshops will be recorded and uploaded to the DiscNW YouTube page a few days after they are completed. Some workshops will include breakout sessions which will not be recorded or shared. We are adding more workshops daily so check back often for updates or subscribe to this Google calendar so you never miss a live session!

Team & Culture Building:

March 30-April 3

Thursday, April 2nd @ 10am PST- Alyssa Weatherford: Self-Assessment for Coaches

Alyssa Weatherford is a world champion player who has coached MS, HS, College and for Team USA. They are a founder of Seven Hills Ultimate and current players for Seattle Riot. They believe that being the best coach you can be begins with doing an honest self-assessment. Learn how to identify your dominant identities and philosophy then explore how that connects to players and coaches in your program. 90-minute workshop. Click here to watch the recording.

Season/Practice Planning, Drill Creation and Strategy:

April 6-10

Wednesday, April 8th @ 10am PST- Amanda Kostic: How to create buy-in through OKRs

Amanda Kostic is a four-time DiscNW YCC Coach, D1 college coach at UW and 10 year coach at Nathan Hale HS and Program Coordinator with Positive Coaching Alliance. The goal of this is to give coaches tools to create objectives (goals) and key results (goal check markers/ways to achieve goals). 45 Minute session. Click here to join live.

Thursday, April 9th @ 10am PST- Reuben and Samantha from Positive Coaching Alliance: Double Goal Coaching for Winning and Life Lessons

Reuben Nieves is the National Director of Coach Training for PCA and a 2X winner of the NCAA Volleyball Coach Of The Year award. Samantha Salvia is a championship athlete in two sports, Rhodes Scholar, water resources engineer, coach, and mother of two. She has won multiple club ultimate championships as a player and coach with SF Fury.

In this highly interactive two-hour workshop – sparked by video-based advice from top pro athletes and coaches on PCA's National Advisory Board – attendees explore why and how to pursue both winning and the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports. This workshop will only be available as a live event (no recording will be available later) This workshop is provided for free by DiscNW but there is normally a $30 fee- Don't miss out! 1.5 hour session. Click here to join live.

Friday, April 10th @ 10am PST-Danie Proby & Ari Nitikman-Making your Practices FUN to enhance their Learning

Danie Proby and Ari Nitikman are co-founders and coaches of Elevate Ultimate club in Vancouver,BC. Danie is a U20 National coach for Team Canada, Has played with Traffic and SHH, has coached for 7 years at Ultimate Peace and in on the Board of Directors for BC Ultimate. Ari has represented Canada at the world championships twice and is a current player for Furious George.

Planning a practice is easy... "do tag, scrimmage" DONE! But creating a fun and engaging practice where your athletes are learning and are excited for more is much more difficult. We will guide you through the steps we use for building our practices and give you some tips and tricks on how to make even the most boring drill exciting.

This will be a 45-minute workshop. Click here to join live.

Friday, April 10th @ 12:30 PST- Casey Ikeda: Effective Subbing Systems and Film Study

Casey Ikeda has been coaching for 13 years including 4 years as a YCC coach and several years in the club division. He is currently in leadership with the Seven Hills Ultimate club.

In this session, we will look at different types of substitution systems. Examine and discuss how to make line calling faster and easier for coaches and how the different systems affect individuals players. We will also look at how to use film to improve individuals' skills and instill a positive team culture. Click here to join live.

Equity:

April 13-17

Monday, April 13th @ 10am PST- Scott Gatto: Gender Equity in Mixed Ultimate Strategy

Scott Gatto is the current Bay Area YCC U20 Girls Coach and a SF Mischief player.

Attendees will learn how to design offenses + defenses in a gender-equitable way for their mixed team via film analysis. This will be a 1-hour workshop. Click here to join live.

Tuesday, April 14th @ 10am PST-Jen Pashley: Off-Field Team Culture Building

Jen Pashley is the Youth Program Director with BADA, a U20 YCC Girls Head Coach and recipient of the Women's Empowerment Award.

Off-Field Team Culture Building: Intentionally creating and reinforcing a positive and equitable team culture is an essential building block for any team. Much of this work can be done off the field, including at the very first team meeting. In this interactive session, attendees will learn how to intentionally design and host team gatherings and be given tangible activities/guides to help your first gathering succeed! 1.5 hour session. Click here to join live.

Thursday, April 16th @ 12:30 pm PST-Shanye Crawford & Lisa Fitton-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ultimate (and life in general)

Shanye Crawford is the current Director of Operations for the Atlanta Soul and has coached MS, HS and club teams. They are a current club and pro player. Lisa Fitton is currently coaching college and has captained Club, College and pro teams. They currently play pro and club.

There two objectives addressed in this training: 1. Establish an environment where participants engage in critical reflection regarding (a) their own areas of privilege, and (b) identify areas where other participants may experience discrimination and/or disadvantage. Outcomes: Each participant states at least one area of privilege that can be leveraged to support an area of disadvantage for another participant (or outside teammate). 2. Encourage discussion and engagement that leads participants to identify (and follow through) with tangible ways that they can support equity and inclusion for all people both in the Ultimate community and in their everyday lives. Outcomes: Participants generate a list of action items for how they can support people in their own communities. Each participant follows through with at least one action item and reports that back to the facilitators and/or full group.

If you plan to attend please wear a hat and look at this document before the event.

Reminder to wear a hat!

DEI survey link https://www.atlantasoulultimate.com/survey-dei

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Friday, April 17th @ 10am PST- Nicole Neumiller: How to Retain Girlx and Other Underrepresented Players

Nicole Neumiller is the Director of Programs and Coach at Ultimate Impact and has 11 years of coaching and teaching experience.

Attendees will learn how to retain players by developing strong disc handling skills, using growth-oriented mindsets and language, and engaging players in other significant playmaking opportunities. This session will focus on both why these actions retain players as well as how to make them happen through drills and best practices. Click here to join live.

Skill Teaching and Fitness:

April 20-24

Monday, April 20th @ 10am PST- Rocky Beach: Teaching Throwing to Younger Players

Rocky Beach is the Executive Director of Ultimate Impact and has been coaching youth in underrepresented communities for over 10 years.

Attendees will learn the language and techniques to teach throwing skills to youth as young as 7 years old. This will be a 30 minute session. Click here to join live.

Tuesday, April 21st @ 10am PST- Ann Bailey:Using visualization and metaphor to improve athletic performance

Ann Bailey is the Executive Director of South End Boxing, coach trainer at Cappy's Boxing and co-head coach of Reign City Athletics' competitive boxing team.

Attendees will learn concrete tactics to improve your use of these powerful coaching tools. Visualization and metaphor are incredibly effective and efficient techniques to help athletes access better muscle organization and performance. Learn how to help athletes create a personal visual library that will assist them in understanding movements from the inside out. Apply visualization and metaphor to team building to help your athletes move and work together in dynamic play environments. Click here to join live.

Wednesday, April 22nd @ 10am PST-Ren Caldwell-Strength and Stability for Ultimate

Ren Caldwell is the founder of Strive and Uplift fitness and has done strength and conditioning work with youth and club ultimate teams since 2012.

From Ren- "There's a lot of off-field work you can do to improve your performance on the field, not all of which requires access to fancy gym equipment! You'll learn tips and tricks you can use with players of all ages, and discover resources for online workouts and programming!" Click here to join live.

Thursday, April 23rd @ 10am PST-Ella Hansen-How to Teach Throwing and Pulling

Ella Hansen is the Executive Director of Eugene Middle School Ultimate, a current college coach, a world champion and a current club player.

Attendees will learn techniques for teaching throwing form and mechanics and learn drills for working on those critical mechanics. Click Here to join live.

Grab Bag

April 27-May 1

Tuesday, April 28th @ 10am PST- Strat Stratton-Season Planning/Practice Planning

S. "Strat" Stratton is the Youth Director for WAFC, former Youth Director for Portland Ultimate. Strat has been captaining, coaching, and organizing Ultimate since 2008.

Attendees will learn how to structure a full school-year Ultimate season for high school and college teams, from club interest fair to season culminating competition. Participants will learn how to plan their season(s) like a teacher planning a semester; and how-to guide, and collaborate with, captains on team leadership and logistics.

Click here to join live.

Wednesday, April 29th @ 10am PST- Alyssa Weatherford: Planning and Running Tryouts and the Team Selection Process

Alyssa Weatherford is a world champion player who has coached MS, HS, College and for Team USA. They are a founder of Seven Hills Ultimate and current players for Seattle Riot.

Alyssa will be covering subjects such as scaling, how to decide skills that each team would be looking for and how to set things up to show those things as well as assessing your own biases as you approach player/team selection. Specific plans and methods. Additionally, are there barriers known or unknown that are keeping people from trying out or making the team that need to be addressed.

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Thursday, April 30th @ 10am PST- Mina Kim- Practice Planning For Middle School Team

Mina Kim is a DC area YCC and middle school coach who has played in the mixed and women's club divisions.

Attendees will learn strategies for running practices for middle schoolers. Will touch upon some key issues specific to middle schoolers such as how to deal with disparate skill levels, how to deal with varied attendance, how to teach team mentality, and how to address behavioral issues.

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Friday, May 1st @ 10am PST- Kellan Gibboney-Developing Leadership in Players

Kellan Gibboney is a Cincinnati based YCC, HS and MS coach and plays with Indy Red in the PUL.

Attendees will learn about several different leadership styles, why they matter on teams, and how to develop their players' to become even better leaders - including some less obvious styles and methods. Mostly given from a high school perspective, but likely broadly applicable. Click here to join live.

Organizers and Admin

May 4-8