Director of Sports Performance (Women's Basketball) with Geno Auriemma;
2024 Women's Final Four;
University of Texas Basketball Strength and Conditioning Head Coach from 2019 to 2021;
University of Kansas Men's Basketball Strength & Conditioning Coach from 2004 to 2019;
while there, players she trained included 35 NBA Draft picks, including 11 Lottery selections;
the 2008 team won the 2008 NCAA D-I Men's Basketball Championship;
2017 National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) Impact Award;
2013 NSCA National College Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year;
UConn Sports Performance Coach for Men's & Women's Basketball and Soccer from 1995 to 2004;
5x Women's Basketball NCAA Champions (1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004);
2x NCAA Men's Basketball NCAA Champions (1999, 2004);
2000 Men's Soccer NCAA Champions;
while there, trained over 50 players to go on to the NBA and over 20 players to go on to the WNBA;
played college volleyball for MarylandTraining your players for basketball conditioning, speed, and agility is important in today's game. With basketball being a game of stop, go, twists, turns, and other various movements, players have to be properly trained. Andrea Hudy has been training athletes with incredible success since 1995 and has built a reputation of being one of the best in today's game.
In this fantastic video, Coach Hudy will share multiple drills that will have players working on game-like actions and help them become the best version of themselves on the court.
Dynamic Warmup
Every game and action begins with properly stretching, loosening, and warming up your muscles. Getting them to fire on all cylinders at a high rate is the goal. In this on court dynamic warmup, players will go through a series of motions with precise detail. Coach Hudy will show you how to walk your team through each stretch and movement so you know how to properly warm up your athletes. By doing all of the warm up through walking, skipping, and running your players will learn how to build up their muscles and prepare them for explosive actions.
Speed and Agility
Building players speed and ability to cut can give them an advantage. Little things can separate your players from the competition. Using speed ladders and mini hurdles your players will learn how to bound, hop, jump, and have quick feet. In ladder hops, players are using one leg to work on explosiveness and strengthening their ankles and feet just as they would in the weight room. By putting in work on the court, your players can mimic what they would do in the weight room and help build actions on the court. Using hurdle drills, players will learn how to properly jump and land soft to help prevent injury all while creating explosive action to jump up and either get a rebound or get into their shooting motion.
Cone Drills
Every coach can benefit by employing useful cone drills that help to mimic players movements on the court. From defensive stance to stop and go turning, cone drills have been a staple in developing players' reactions. Coach Hudy demonstrates a variety of drills using cones, but also explains how you can use variations in your practices to help train athletes to be at peak basketball performance. In acceleration drills, players are learning to use both feet to change or switch directions. Players have to start with a different foot each time they go in the drill. By starting with a hop in place, the coach can teach them to wait for the reaction and push off with their inside foot. This works explosively as players sprint from baseline to free throw or half court. Building from individual cone drills to relay races using a tennis ball or towel, Hudy works to make these drills fun and competitive. This can help build team chemistry as players are competing against each other.
Conditioning
Training players to sprint and turn in different directions will help them be prepared for any twisting and turning the game brings. Using heavy conditioning at the end of your workout helps build toughness and teach players to push through late in the game. Coach Hudy uses 22's to help train players in the full court. In 22's coach gives players commands and which way they should turn as they sprint from one end to the other. By giving players a 1 minute break in between she will help build their endurance and train players in stop and go like actions. Finishing with a 55, coach combines all of her heavy conditioning to make players sprint from the free throw all the way to the opposite end in 55 seconds.
Preparing players to play at a high speed and be able to turn and twist in game-like actions gives players an advantage. Speed and agility training has helped build today's basketball player into a machine on the court. Coach Hudy is one of the best at working with basketball players and training them to play at high performance. You will love the on court drills and simple instruction coach provides to train your players!
Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 stars - 'Coach Hudy takes drills that players might normally dread and turns them into competitive drills and relay races making them competitive. Your players will love conditioning with competition!'
75 minutes. 2024