January 12, 2024: Almost Game Day ( 8 hours)
- Jaeonna Sutton
- Mar 14, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 24, 2024
It’s game day eve today. Today I woke up at around 8:00 a.m. again to get ready for practice at 10:00 a.m. I did my daily Starbucks stop once again. I go there so often that the workers remember my order by heart. After I got my drink I arrived at the athletic center. We had the team stretch and got warmed up for practice. Since tomorrow is game day and we need to rest our legs our practice plan didn’t involve much running today. Everything we did was in a half-court set and mainly walk-throughs. Since we didn’t have a film session we just talked about our opponent's offense and our game plan against it. After covering the basis of the scout we let the team finish with some shooting. We had individuals after practice where we worked on moves to the basket. We remained only at half-court so that it’s not too much running for our players. We focused on getting to the rim and scoring the ball with contact. Lots of times we shy away from contact which alters the shots we want. We then headed to the cafeteria for lunch at around 1:30 where they were serving paninis. We were able to create our own with a choice of chips. Once lunch was over we encouraged certain players who averaged a lot of minutes to take ice baths. This helps relax their muscles and loosen their bodies up. Other players did their treatment and recovery inside the training room. After recovery, it was about 4:00 and I had a team meeting to check in and see how my players were feeling mentally and physically. After a good talk with them, we went to team dinner where we had a very delicious chicken parm. The team headed home to rest for game day and the coaches and I went to the office to talk about how we feel about tomorrow. After a great talk, we as well headed home to rest up.
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