Pre-Athletics
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Course description
Course details
What success looks like in Pre-Athletics
Link to Incoming 7th grade Newcomer page
Course description
6th grade Girls and Boys athletic introduction who are interested in playing sports and learning how to work hard and learn valuable life lessons through their sport. This class is more demanding than PE (physical education). Please read the course details and what to expect from a typical Pre-Athletics period. If your child DOES NOT plan on trying out for a sport in 7th grade, this class may not be the right fit. We want to ensure that all students understand the class they are choosing. Your student does not have to be enrolled in pre-athletics to take athletics in 7th grade. Please reference the link below when making your decision on whether this class is right for your student.
Course details
No physical is needed for Pre-Athletics
Equipment needed: athletic shoes, athletic clothing (t-shirt, shorts, pants), sports bra (female athletes), water bottle
**Dressing out is optional but recommended; students will need to make sure their clothes and shoes will allow them to complete the workout, drills and or game play for that day. For example, if a student is wearing a dress and nice shoes, we expect that they wear shorts underneath the dress or change into pants for class and have a change of shoes for the class period as well. **We will always give our students the opportunities to change back with enough time to not be late to their next class
Equipment provided: balls for each sport, a place to change clothes, equipment needed for each sport, equipment to provide learning opportunities in the weight room and agility work
Students will have a moderate to heavy work out or skills drill(s) daily, please expect to be physically and mentally challenged daily
What does success looks like in Pre-Athletics?
Students will be able to successfully
complete a dynamic warm-up with little to no coach facilitation (leadership roles)
complete a moderate to hard endurance workout that includes but is not limited to a running or agility work out; we use these to teach them how to regulate their breathing and to understand how their bodies move within different environments and sports
have an introductory understanding of the weight room and a few of the core lifts that are important for injury prevention through the use of PVC pipes, body weight and low DB/BB weight exercises (ie: bench press, squats, and hang clean progression)
have an introductory to moderate understanding (depending on what students participate in outside of school) of the skills and drills we use in MOST of our MS sports offered:
Volleyball, Football, Basketball, Track and Soccer
For more information on what to expect for Hays MS Athletics please visit our Newcomers Page linked:
Incoming 7th graders please take a look at the requirements needed to participate in athletics