Overview of Basketball Program and Team
Fierce is helping young women grow more fiery, focused and fun as they develop their skills and confidence both on and off the course. Other programs may discuss fundamentals in their curriculum but may actually focus on the tactics and plays of their “offensive systems.” We focus on creating stronger athletes, more aggressive minds, better teammates, and confidence in our players. The program runs March 9th thru June 13th.
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Philosophy & Training
Fierce is dedicated to playing full court man to man defense and to playing fast-break basketball all of which allow your children to grow each year, rather than learn a different set of plays each year that provide little progressive or foundational learning. Life lessons we focus on include:
- Servant Leadership
- Vision
- Trust
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Accountability
- Joy & Fun
Example Basketball Tournament Schedule (This is last year’s schedule)
Fierce will play approximately 7 Austin Select basketball tournaments or a 21-24 game schedule. We may add more tournaments depending on the availability of families once the team makeup is decided. We may add in a few scrimmages if we find other teams interested in scrimmaging. We will avoid travel unless we started to dominate the Austin schedule and would then re-assess with the consensus of parents. Next year we would reassess and perhaps add tournament in San Antonio. We will most likely try to play at some of the same tournaments with the older Fierce team as we try to foster a “Little Sister” program between the older and more proven players and the younger ones.
Last Year’s Schedule As An Example (we will try to add a 7th tournament)
3/19-3/20 Excel Longhorn Classic
3/26-3/27 Gametime
4/2 – 4/3 Magic Invitational
4/9-4/10 Texas Gametime
5/7 21st Magic Shootout
5/14-5/15 Texas Gametime
Tryouts
When: By Appointment
Fitzhugh Baptist Church Gym
Tryouts are $20 to attend unless you have already paid that for another tryout this season. Venmo $20 to Christopher-Corbett-13 Text Chris @ 512-921-4444 to RSVP as soon as possible. He can also call you and answer any questions you have.
Bring: A water bottle, basketball, and a relaxed attitude. Announcements of cuts/makes will be made a rolling basis with invitations considered accepted upon written acceptance and reception of payment for the season. Acceptance is not done until invitation and payment returned. We understand you may want to shop around, but we cannot keep committed children waiting.
Fierce Head Coach Harvey Vaughn
Harvey is currently the Round Rock Christian Academy Varsity Girls Head Coach. He previously served as an Assistant Coach at Faith Academy in Marble Falls and helped win a state championship there.
Harvey has served as an assistant coach for Fierce last year and also as a consultant thru our growth. Harvey is a lifelong learner, a digital marketing expert, and a successful internet entrepreneur across multiple industries. Complete bio coming soon!
Fierce Team Director Chris Corbett
Chris Corbett of Austin Youth Basketball will be serving as a fill in coach, curriculum director and skills trainer for the team. And we have this team of leaders in place to have multiple experts helping your kids.
This is an essential part of the girls’ growth. They will be judged in middle and high school tryouts based on skills, athleticism, and effort…. not rote memorization of robotic plays and offenses.
Chris played grew up in the playground basketball mecca of Queens, NYC. Then played Point Guard at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His work as a trainer has been endorsed by NBA and WNBA players, college and high school coaches, and more importantly, hundreds of families just like yours.
Chris is also a speaker for the USA Basketball Coaches program and looks forward to helping share his knowledge there on the Speaker Circuit next year. He trains several college teams and also some AAU programs across the nation. His work in clinics and camps are well known from Texas to Maine to Ireland.
Chris is also an owner of:
Basketball Mental Strength & Health Support
We are not psychologists, but we are acutely aware of many of the problems our young women face playing basketball today. We cover some of these topics on a regular basis to help support them on their journey and also to make sure they don’t feel isolated. We help them grow stronger, more confident and also equipped to manage many of the ups and downs of basketball and life.
Need professional help?
For girls who need a professional we highly recommend Shayna Barksdale at https://austintherapyforgirls.com/
Follow me on Instagram @austinyouthbasketball for some of these types of resources.
Fees
$1499 payable upon 48 hours after an invitation to team unless other arrangements have been made. This will include the practice time, the logistics and organization, uniforms, and 6-7 tournaments.
Past Bonuses (Valued at $600) for Fierce Family
We will likely be including many of these but also want to hear what are your needs and wants. And customize some bonuses to the personalized needs of our team.
- Playing College Basketball Overview Seminar $49
- This program will teach you how to evaluate the possibility of playing and what your next steps are.
- This could be overkill for some 7th graders, but at the same time an opportunity to inspire and plant a seed. Attendance is optional.
- President’s Day Ballhandling and Buckets Clinic $59
- Work on finishing moves and shooting off the dribble
- Reduce anxiety with our proven techniques
- Learn to actually use these moves in games, not just drills
- Semi Private Personalized Shooting Instruction Session $60
- In the last two weeks of February we will have two days available for you to sign up for shooting makeovers or tuneups on Dr. Dish Shooting Machine. 2 players per session.
- This will also include slow motion filming and breakdown to aid you.
- We are professional shooting coaches. We can help you.
- Player Evaluation Summary Sheet $100
- These are just like the self evaluation sheets you filled out at tryouts
- This is the same format may college scouts use to evaluate you. i have used this sheet to evaluate players for college coaches.
- One of our professional staff will fill this out. Most likely me.
- We will wait up to one month from start to fill these out so we can accurately share feedback with you
- Customized Player Development Plan $150
- Two pages of details on what your focus should be with us this season to improve your skills. And how we can support that focus. And the work you can do to improve outside of our time together.
- Vertical & Explosiveness Evaluation and Training Workshop $59
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- Have your vertical jump measured, your basketball specific explosiveness timed, and get our Video Course for Vertical Training (designed for growing bodies with low risk medium reward approach.)
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- Sand Training Clinic & Videos $49
- this supplements your vertical training and introduces the lessons I learned working to develop this with Olympian Eric Fonoimoana, Beach Volleyball Gold Medalist.
- We will meet at a beach volleyball court here in Austin.
- Basketball Body-weight Strength Course & Clinic $49
- An official Coachtube course and 30 day challenge you can preview here: https://coachtube.com/course/basketball/basketball-strength-with-body-weight-exercises/1780175
- This course is a prerequisite for any resistance training program used to improve strength on the basketball court. Although athletes of all ages will benefit from the following exercises, the focus of this 30-day challenge is on the development of the middle school and high school basketball player in a safe and functional manner.
- 3 Pop Up Open Basketball Gyms $40
- No coaching
- Music
- Invite a friend to
Uniforms / Swag (uniforms will be included in this price)
New players will get an order form and instructions the day after signing up. Reversible deluxe uniforms, reversible practice jersey, shooting shirt and likely but not definitely backpacks are included in this price. Quality is high.
Projected Practices & Facility
Practices are to be held at Fitzhugh Baptist Church in Southwest Austin/Dripping Springs area.
Skills Session: Mondays 4:40pm – 6pm
Team Practice: Thursdays 4:40pm – 6:15pm
We will have one skills session per week between 1 and 2 hours and 1 team practice (2 hours) a week.
Thanks for thinking of Fierce!
