In a time with main occasion overload and new occasions popping up in all places, it might be exhausting to find out what occasions to attend and what units every aside. Here’s what units aside the Nationwide Participant Mix and why we extremely encourage all athletes, from rising freshmen to dedicated seniors, to attend and return every year.
The Nationwide Participant Mix (NPC) is an occasion like no different. The main target is on athlete improvement coupled with goal and standardized assessments that measure for pace, power, agility and talent execution in a high-level showcase camp setting on a world-class water-based floor. On the NPC, there aren’t any “Membership Politics” and no “Coaches Favorites”. Every athlete is objectively assessed using digital pace gates, soar mats, radar weapons, the beep-test and quite a few standardized talent stations.
The NPC is a 3-day occasion, beginning at evening time of Day #1 with Physiology Assessments. Pace, power, and health are such an vital a part of the sport of discipline hockey, particularly on the subsequent stage. The NPC assessments are modeled round Division 1 school and USA Nationwide Crew packages to supply athletes with a benchmark (a “snap-shot”) of their physiology compared to their friends. The place do they at present stand, what areas do they excel in and what areas do they should work on. On the NPC, athletes are capable of follow these assessments in a secure studying setting and achieve confidence. Our purpose is to alter the mindset of physiology assessments and coaching from being anxiousness driving and stomach-wrenching, right into a motivating problem and one thing athletes work exhausting to enhance upon to turn out to be higher athletes and discipline hockey gamers. One of many highlights of 12 months 2 of the NPC was the athletes who returned from 12 months 1 pushed to beat their IFT rating (aka the beep take a look at). That subsequent stage mentality is what we try to foster.
NPC Physiology Assessments (Be taught Extra)
Most Velocity
Agility/Change of Route
Vertical Energy Manufacturing
Linear Energy Manufacturing
Cardio Endurance/VO2 Max
Day #2 consists of three classes. The morning session is the Abilities Mix. Athletes rotate via stations that consider important stick and ball skills- dribbling, passing, hitting, aerials, the drag flick, and so forth. Goal efficiency scores are recorded and plenty of stations are timed to simulate recreation strain. After the occasion, we offer class analytics that permit athletes to see the place they excel and the place they should enhance. Coaches additionally take notes on type and method to supply suggestions in these important talent areas.
The afternoon session is Small Sport Play. On this session, athletes rotate via 3 stations led by excessive stage school coaches. Every station has a special theme- it might be midfield transition, attacking or defending within the circle, and so forth. Athletes are introduced with a drill in a brand new setting, with new teammates, very like they are going to after they arrive to school or be part of a brand new high-level crew. They’re challenged with deciphering directions, adjusting to suggestions, and performing in a brand new scenario. Coaches take notes and particular person suggestions is offered on these classes after the occasion.
The evening session and Day #3 are all 11v11 Video games on the Villanova College water-based turf. Athletes are damaged into groups and compete in a complete of three games- 1 on evening 2 and a couple of on Day #3. They’ve the chance to be coached by and be taught from 2 completely different units of coaches- 1 set on evening 2 and one other set on Day #3. They’re uncovered to completely different teaching kinds and strategies and are given suggestions from 4 completely different coaches all through the video games. There are additionally NPC coaches on the sideline watching the video games and taking notes to supply useful suggestions for athletes. This suggestions is just like what school coaches recruiting would see when observing their play.
Following the occasion, every athlete receives a web based NPC Athlete Profile that they’ll select to share or maintain for their very own private use. Profiles embrace all measurable physio and abilities mix knowledge, in addition to subjective suggestions from coaches all through the classes. Moreover, athletes are supplied with some key takeaway numbers inside the score scale under within the following areas: General, Assault, Protection, Technical, and Tactical. These numbers present a present projected trajectory on the subsequent stage of the game based mostly upon the snapshot captured on the NPC. It’s meant to supply the athlete with significant details about how they’re perceived in every space evaluated and to direct subsequent steps of their improvement.
On the NPC, we compile a training workers of elite school coaches, former nationwide crew and world class gamers who know what it takes to carry out on the highest stage. They’re world-record holders, Olympians, Nationwide Crew captains. They don’t seem to be solely elite coaches seeking to encourage the subsequent technology of discipline hockey gamers and discover the subsequent members of their collegiate groups, they’ve been in your sneakers and need to assist you to develop and obtain your targets. They’re lecturers at their core and unimaginable position fashions. All through the 3-day occasion, athletes could have the chance to work with a majority of the teaching workers.