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Rise Up Ultimate Weekend
Last weekend, 15th & 16th February, WA Ultimate had the privilege of hosting international coach, Alex Snyder of Rise Up Ultimate, as part of her intensive tour aimed at developing Women’s nationals teams across Australia.
33 women attended Alex’s 7 hour Women’s Development Ultimate clinic on Saturday, which focussed on skills such as planning your throw, planning your cut, using fakes to clear the break side, throwing into space, defensive footwork and positioning, cutting into space laterally, dumping and velocity throwing & catching. Afterwards the group cooled down at City Beach.
A special mention to our 5 volunteer coaches who also gave up their time to assist on the day: Steve Baker, James Moolenshot, John Damiani, Kyal Oh and Jason Carr.
On Sunday morning Alex hosted a special session dedicated to local Perth women's club, Kaos. Alex worked with the girls on throwing skills, effective marking, offensive cutting patterns and “give & go” passes.
Sunday afternoon Alex spent some time with Perth captains and coaches discussing coaching techniques such as developing team culture, goal setting, player development, developing drills and drill progressions, game strategies and focused scrimmages.
All who were attendance across the Rise Up weekend gained a wealth of knowledge in excitement to implement everything they had learnt into their Ultimate pathways.
A special thank you to the Sarah Brereton who not only assisted in organisation of the coaching clinic, but also for billeting Alex during her stay and showing her around Perth and preparing the lunches and snacks.
A BIG thank you from the WA Ultimate community to Ultimate Australia and Rise Up Ultimate for coordinating the program and of course to Alex Snyder for not only being an excellent coach but also a wonderful ambassador for women's Ultimate.
You can check out Rise Up Ultimate here, to download their mutiple coaching videos and seasons.
Reminise all the weekend action on WA Ultimate's YouTube channel, check out the video here .
Check out the photos from the amazing weekend on our Facebook page here