Spring Athletic Skills Challenge
Week 3 March 30th to April 5th, Deadline for all scores is 11:59pm on Sunday
Join our youth athletics family these next few weeks in our athletics skills challenges. Every week on Monday, we will be posting one skill challenge for baseball, basketball and soccer. You can do all these drills in your backyard or park. Players must send a picture to HEParks with them doing the skills challenge, their name, age and their score. We will have weekly winners for each sport. Players can win prizes such as soccer balls, basketball balls, medals, hats and each player who participates will receive a free water bottle. Prizes can be claimed when HEParks re-opens their facilities. Below is this week’s skill challenges.
WEEK 2 WINNERS
Basketball Mikan Drill Challenge- The Roger brothers (Lucas & Cole) took to the driveway and dominated the Mikan Drill. I’m sure their father and volunteer HEPD coach Chris Rogers was helping with their footwork through the drill. Congrats Lucas and Cole.
Baseball Bucket Challenge- We had many entries in this weeks speed drill but we can only have 1 winner, Logan Montalbano. Logan lacded up his P.F Flyers and went to Syacmore Park, home of Mustang baseball, and ran the bases in 15.75 seconds!
Soccer passing challenge- In this week challenge Nyan Kizhakepunnur displayed the footwork that got him atop of our leader board. Congrats Nyan!
Baseball Skill
Show us your speed! This week we will focus on our footwork around the bases. Set up your own baseball diamond with bases 50-80 feet apart. (shetland and pinto- 50 feet, Mustang 60 feet, Bronco 70 feet and Pony 90 feet). Grab a stop watch, your phone works great, and circle the bases as fast as you can! below is a video to show the proper footwork for circling the bases. Send a picture with your time to kthomas@heparks.org
Basketball Skills
Beat Jordan! Can you beat the goat in a shooting drill? This weeks challenge is beat Jordan. You must get 10 points before Jordan scores 10 on you. Below is a video with two special guest from our HEParks Family on how the drill works. Send scores and pictures to Kthoams@heparks.org to qualify for prizes.
Soccer Skills
3 post challenge. This week you will need a goal to shoot out. A pop up goal, local park goals or a home made goal works. The challenge is not to score a goal but see how many attempts it takes you to hit both side post and the cross bar. Take the shot from the PK mark. Double post hits count!
Fishing Skills
This week we will get back to the basics and challenge ourselves to explore and learn new knots. Check out the following knots. i can tie these with my eyes close can you?
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Fishing Skills
This week we will get back to the basics and challenge ourselves to explore and learn new knots. Check out the following knots. i can tie these with my eyes close can you?
