Baseball Academy

Alexandra Junior High School
477 Sixth Street S.E.,
Medicine Hat, Alberta,
Canada T1A 1H4
 (Click on address for a map to the school.)
Ph 403-527-8571 Fax 403-527-0299


BASEBALL ACADEMY

All grade 7 & 8 students from AJHS are able to participate together in a "Baseball Academy".  Alexandra Junior High School, in partnership with City of Medicine Hat presents the Baseball Academy, as part of the Sports Performance Option. The Baseball Academy aims to provide students with attitudes, knowledge, and skills that are mandatory for the improvement of learning and the enhancement of performance. All students will have success through believing in themselves and striving for their own personal excellence. This program creates a positive skills environment that links sport with education by focusing attention on the "physical, social, cultural and emotional potential through sports endeavours".

The Baseball Academy is broken up into three parts where two days a week students will participate in on-field skills development and three days a week in off-field skill development/theory and classroom instruction. All of which allows students to work on their hitting, in fielding, catching, pitching, bunting, strength and conditioning, hand-eye co-ordination, base running, mental discipline, and nutrition. It is the second of the two components that are part of the unique Sports Performance Option (the other being Hockey - Semester 1: Fall/Winter). We are excited to be able to provide these opportunities to the students of our school.
Program of Study:
    Baseball Academy 7 & 8 (Word.doc) (Adobe.pdf)
Term Plans:
    Baseball Academy 7 & 8 (Word.doc)
In the Media:
    Medicine Hat News Article (jpg - 122 kb)
Movie Clips of the Class in Action:
    Infield Drill - Funnel the Baseball (avi - 9.3 Mb)
    Second Baseman Double Play Turns to Shortstop - Teacher Demo (avi -20.7 Mb)
    Double Play Partner Drill (avi - 16.9 Mb)
    Wallball Exercise (avi - 1.6 Mb)
    Fielding Mechanics Drill 1 (avi - 9.8 Mb)
    Fielding Mechanics Drill 2 (avi - 18.5 Mb)
Photos:
    Warm-up Throwing 1 (jpg - 73 kb)
    Warm-up Throwing 2 (jpg - 91 kb)
    Catching and Receiving Demo 1 (jpg - 156 kb)
    Infielding Mechanics Drill (jpg - 227 kb)
    Second Base and Short Stop Double Play Drill Instruction 1 (jpg - 593 kb)
    Second Base and Short Stop Double Play Drill Instruction 2 (jpg - 408 kb)
    Fungo Infielding Drill 1 (jpg - 324 kb)
    Fungo Infielding Drill 2 (jpg - 188 kb)
Sports Performance Brochure (Baseball and Hockey):
    Outside
    Inside
Useful Sports Academy Links
Interesting Photos from the Net:
    Hard to Hit (jpg - 94 kb)
    What a pitch (jpg - 48 kb)
 

<©>April, 2007

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