These skills include:
1) Hardest Worker Award - the player(s) who give the best physical and mental effort
2) Competitor Award - a player who gives there best effort when facing some kind of adversity
3) Performer Award - a player who plays above their average level on a particular day or who comes up with the big shots at the biggest moments
I’m happy to say that all the players pushed themselves to try and achieve an award and the intensity and execution improved a lot this past week because of this. Not only that, but when the players won an award, it was obvious they felt great about it and were even more motivated the next day. The players who didn’t get an award also became more motivated because they knew they would need to push for more if they were to earn one over someone who had earned it the previous day.
We also continued to work on similar skills that we did last week but these skills are secondary to establishing a higher level of focus and compete level amongst the players. All the players should be very proud of themselves for a fantastic week and look to bring even more energy to next week’s practices.
Here is a list of the award winners from this past week:
HARDEST WORKER AWARD:
Samaia Januszewski x 2, Anders Langan , Alex Szczypinski, Jagvi Sharma, Gabriel Solomon, Maksim Tesic x 2, Chenyu Liu Lucas Zhao
COMPETITOR AWARD Jagvi Sharma, Alex Szczypinski, Kevin Jing
PERFORMER AWARD Maksim Tesic