Youth Football Coaching – End of Season Practice Idea

Here’s a youth football coaching tip for end of the season football practice. You can also turn this around and use it at the beginning of the season, record the results and repeat at the end! Use this to show how far the team came during the season.

At the last practice of the season, take half an hour and set up some football drills that you call “Beat Coach ….” One is a kickoff drill. The football coach kicks first. Any kid that kicked farther than the coach “won” the drill.

Next, throw a series of three footballs through a hula hoop from ten yards out. Have the kids try to throw more footballs through the hoop than the coach did.

Kept doing the drills until all of the kids had “beaten” the coach at a drill.

I had already arranged to have pizza delivered to the field at the end of football practice. Each kid got to have some pizza and bragging rights for having beaten me at a drill.

When we had our end of season banquet, a number of kids said it was their favorite drill of the season!

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