ISC 2012 Basketball What Happens in the
Classroom
ISC's mission is to help coaches transition from a
narrow focus on talent-development and strategy-implementation to a more
comprehensive vision of coaching, which promotes personal growth, appreciation
of others, and community development. ISC staff seeks to empower coaches with
comprehensive, international-standard training, to encourage a commitment to
continuous learning, and to promote creativity in meeting the unique challenges
that arise while coaching children and youth.
The International Sport Connection seeks to equip
and train a complete coach which means that a great coach isn’t just someone
who teaches proper shooting technique.
Classroom sessions were aimed to provide information on sport
psychology, child development, team management, entrepreneurship, sport injury,
speed and strength training, conflict-resolution and leadership instruction, as
well as mentorship training.
Dr. Jens Omli, the director of ISC, lead coaches
through child development and sport psychology lectures. Lisa Berg, the assistant director of ISC,
taught coaches how to run tournaments. She
also introduced new technologies and communication strategies so the coaches
knew how to access Internet resources and stay connected to the ISC network of
coaches and instructors. Natalie Trotter
used her expertise as a certified athletic trainer and university lecturer in
four classroom topics throughout the week.
She taught sports nutrition, injury prevention and identification, care
for sport injury, and she finished the week with strategies for speed, agility,
and strength training. Paul Nixon took a
day to come off the courts and into the classroom to lead a tactical session
answering specific game-situation questions that participants had. Stone Kymbadde, the Ugandan director for the
ISC, opened the eyes of participants with his lectures on mentoring,
leadership, and conflict resolution.
Beatrice Ayuru, the director of Lira Integrated
School, shared her personal story of making something out of nothing using her
entrepreneurial skills. Her message challenged
each participant to humble themselves and start living their vision because it
is possible. Beatrice’s vision was to
build her own school for her community and provide educational opportunities
for girls. Beatrice fulfilled her vision
by building her sports center and complete education institution by first
planting and selling cassava (a staple root-vegetable crop in Uganda). From there she grew to a wheelbarrow business
and then started a canteen. After much
saving and hard work, she formed the first bricks of her school by hand. Today
she has a nursery school, primary school, secondary school, and a sports center
with a swimming pool, 3 basketball courts, and two soccer fields. She is in final stages of opening the Lira
Integrated University and she continues to maintain a savings and loan
operation, a catering business, a 12 pond fish farm, acres of agriculture that
feeds the students at the school, and she is finishing building modern cottages
that can be used by visitors to the school and to the community. Through her ISC lectures she is changing the
culture of dependence that is common in the war-affected areas of Uganda to
determination.
The 2012 International Sport Connection Basketball
Training in Uganda was supported by generous contributions from the
SportsUnited division of the U.S. Department of State.
Classroom Schedule:
Day One:
Natalie Trotter: Sport Injury
Lisa Berg: New Media and Communication
Stone Kymbadde: Leadership
Day Two:
Jens Omli: Sport Psychology
Lisa Berg: How to Run Tournaments
Natalie Trotter: Care of Sport Injuries
Day Three:
Beatrice Ayuru: Entrepreneurship
Stone Kymbadde: Mentoring
Jens Omli: Child Development
Day Four:
Stone Kymbadde: Leadership
Paul Nixon: Tactical Basketball Strategies
Natalie Trotter: Sport Nutrition
Day Five:
Lisa Berg: Photo Day
Natalie Trotter: Speed, Agility, and Strength
Training
Stone Kymbadde: Conflict Resolution
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