Coaching Corner
Learn with Lightning: Fundamentals
Our Lightning Netball Academy for U15's and U17's runs geographically with Hubs from Worksop to Northampton and from Uttoxeter to Lincoln and Stamford, with many central hubs across the East Midlands including Derby, Nottingham, and Loughborough. This makes our Lightning Performance Netball Academy very accessible to a wide geographic area of talented young athletes. As one of the netball franchises across the country running the official England Netball Performance Pathway we are excited to invite you to watch our free Fundamentals series!
There are three 16 minute videos available now for free on our website for teachers / coaches and young players. There are four netball fundamentals skills young athletes can try as part of the series, challenges for elevation, speed and agility, hand eye coordination and reactions and, for strength. These can all be done at home with minimal equipment and young athletes can see how they benchmark against current U15 and U17 Lightning Academy netball players.
The series has several purposes:
Firstly, we would like to identify any athletes from Y10 downwards across a wide region of our Loughborough Lightning Franchise who may not already be engaged with netball / have access to netball or, be aware that they have high potential as a netball performance player and then to connect them with us to help them access performance netball. The series helps teacher and coaches with identifying athletes with high netball netball potential.
Secondly, we would like all young netball players who may be interested in Performance Netball to have a better understanding of the pathway through and to improve their skills in this current off season to prepare for trials. Also, for teachers and coaches to help support them with this process having a clearer understanding about it.
Lastly, we would like to give any player anywhere the chance to up skill and work on their netball fundamentals!
For more information please follow this link:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/sport/performance/lightning/netball/learn/virtual-programmes/fundamentals/
There are three 16 minute videos available now for free on our website for teachers / coaches and young players. There are four netball fundamentals skills young athletes can try as part of the series, challenges for elevation, speed and agility, hand eye coordination and reactions and, for strength. These can all be done at home with minimal equipment and young athletes can see how they benchmark against current U15 and U17 Lightning Academy netball players.
The series has several purposes:
Firstly, we would like to identify any athletes from Y10 downwards across a wide region of our Loughborough Lightning Franchise who may not already be engaged with netball / have access to netball or, be aware that they have high potential as a netball performance player and then to connect them with us to help them access performance netball. The series helps teacher and coaches with identifying athletes with high netball netball potential.
Secondly, we would like all young netball players who may be interested in Performance Netball to have a better understanding of the pathway through and to improve their skills in this current off season to prepare for trials. Also, for teachers and coaches to help support them with this process having a clearer understanding about it.
Lastly, we would like to give any player anywhere the chance to up skill and work on their netball fundamentals!
For more information please follow this link:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/sport/performance/lightning/netball/learn/virtual-programmes/fundamentals/