TWO sports, ONE Academy.
NEW Basketball Volleyball Combo Academy coming for the 2024/2025 school year.
NDA's first combo academy will focus on developing athletes in two sports over the course of the school year. Students enrolled in the program will benefit from a comprehensive development plan that includes skill-specific drills, physical conditioning, and mental resilience training required to excel in both basketball and volleyball.
VOLLEYBALL AREAS OF INSTRUCTION :
• Attacking, blocking, defense, passing, serving, setting skill development
• Tactical training appropriate for age level
• Modified game play
• Reading and reacting
• Volleyball concepts, systems and formations introduced and refined
• Assessing game decisions
BASKETBALL AREAS OF INSTRUCTION :
• Both basic and enhanced fundamental basketball skills for all levels of basketball players.
• Learning to read and react on defense and offense.
• Game play situations and scrimmages.
• Basketball concepts and different defensive situations will be taught. Zones, full
court presses, and so on.
• Building the whole student athlete.
• Nutrition
• Mental training
• Fundamental fitness training in our new fitness center.
• Trying new activities and sports throughout to create multi-sport athletes.
EQUIPMENT
All students will be expected to have indoor volleyball/basketball shoes. Volleyball knee
pads would be beneficial but optional. All students will receive an academy training jersey that is to be worn when participating in the Academy.
FACILITIES
The Notre Dame Basketball/Volleyball Academy will utilize the MH College gymnasium as it’s primary training facility as well as Notre Dame Academy and BMGC on
occasion.