Managing Different Ages & Skill Levels In Your Youth Programs (Part 2 of 2)

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In our last episode, I was joined by Mike Gregotski of High Park Club in Toronto and Mike Smith of Lindsay Curling Club. We shared strategies to help manage different ages and skill levels in our youth curling programs. In Part 2, we let loose! We continue our discussion of "Hit Draw Tap," talk about practice structure, obsess over attendance, and share our plans for the end of the curling season.

NOTE: Interview recorded February 13/23

Some of the topics we discuss:
* The "behind the scenes" work organizing "Hit Draw Tap" (1:02)
* East York Little Rocks uses "stations" for practice (2:19)
* "Structure builds success" for practice planning (6:00)
* Promoting older "Little Rocks" curlers to Junior program (13:04)
* High Park Mike: Put the kid in the place "where they'll have the most success" (20:13)
* Lindsay Mike: Kids that enjoy your program will be your "best recruiters" (22:53)
* East York's "Try Curling" Event in March 2023 and Coach Glenn's son will be there! (28:27)

Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:

High Park Club (Toronto, Ont.) Web site
https://www.highparkclub.com/

Lindsay (Ont.) Curling Club Web site
https://www.lindsaycurling.com

Mike Smith's E-mail:
lindsayyouthcurling@gmail.com

Mike Gregotski's E-mail:
littlerocks@highparkclub.com

Mike G's Twitter handle:
@mgregotski

"Hit Draw Tap" Curling Canada Web site
https://www.curling.ca/hitdrawtap/

Follow our podcast on Twitter: @kidscurling

Glenn Gabriel is an NCCP-certified curling coach and coach developer who lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has been the coordinator of the Little Rocks (U12) program at East York Curling Club in Toronto since 2011. If you have a question or feedback on the podcast, send us an e-mail at coachingkidscurling@gmail.com

The intro and outro music is "Golden Sunrise (Instrumental Version)"
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise

By Josh Woodward
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward

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