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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
3:30-4:30 pm CST
Early Conference Registration
Open Registration Booth – North Campus Main Entrance
4:30-4:40 pm CST
Welcome/Opening
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Executive Director: Rich Gray
President: Eric Cash, EdD
4:40-6:30 pm CST
Annual Celebration Dinner
“The #Family Reunion” Main Location – Fieldhouse
Caterer: TBD
Site Location: TBD
6:10-7:00 pm CST
Keynote Address
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Dan John
Senior Lecturer, St Mary’s University (Twickenham, London)
7:10-8:10 pm CST
Award Presentations
Main Location – Fieldhouse
NHSSCA All-American Athletes
NHSSCA Athletes of the Year Male & Female
NHSSCA Program of Excellence
NHSSCA State Coaches of the Year
NHSSCA Scholarship Awards
NHSSCA Regional Coaches of the Year
NHSSCA National Coach of the Year
8:15-8:45 pm CST
Hall of Fame Ceremony
Main Location – Fieldhouse
NHSSCA Hall of Fame, Class of 2023
8:45-9:00 pm CST
Closing
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Executive Director: Rich Gray
President: Eric Cash, Ed
8:00-9:00 am CST
Female Coaches Breakfast
North Campus Cafeteria
Speaker: TBD
Presented by WeCoachSports
8:00-9:00 am CST
Pre-Conference Registration
Open Registration Booth – North Campus Main Entrance
Pre-Conference Special Session
(Lunch Provided 12 noon – 1:00 pm CST)
*Pre-Conference Registration opens at 8:00 am CST
Locations: Practice Gym, Turf Room & North Campus Cafeteria
Limited to first 200 coaches to register!
Cost: $50 (only applicable to registered attendees for NHSSCA Conference – must be registered for National Conference to be eligible to attend the pre-con).
9:00–3:00 pm CST
Head to Toe Human Performance: The Best Methods For Each Key Segment of Performance
Chris Korfist and Cal Dietz who will be presenting an in-depth look at how each part of your body impacts athletes health and human performance. Coach Korfist and Coach Dietz will give you new insights and provide effective practical methods to get started with immediately! Lecture, demonstration and hands-on experiences will complete this unique 5-hour pre-conference. Lunch will be provided on-site.
Cal Dietz, MEd, CSCS
– Strength and Conditioning Head Coach, U.S. Women’s Hockey Olympic/National Team
– Strength Coach at the University of Minnesota, Department of Athletics
Chris Korfist, MSEd
– Owner, Slow Guy Speed School
– Co-Owner, Track Football Consortium
– Co-Founder, Reflexive Performance Reset
– Sprint Coach, Homewood-Flossmoor HS (IL)
3:30-6:00 pm CST
Conference Registration
Registration Booth – North Campus Main Entrance
– Attendee Gift Bags
– Sponsor Booths Open
– Meet & Greet
4:30-4:40 pm CST
Welcome/Opening
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Executive Director: Rich Gray
President: Eric Cash, EdD
4:45-6:00 pm CST
Opening Dinner
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Caterer: TBD
Site Location: TBD
6:15-7:05 pm CST
Hands-On Sessions I.
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose a 50-minute hands-on session to attend. All 4 sessions will repeated later in conference to allow coaches to maximize their experience. There will be four options during Session I including strength, speed/agility, movement assessment and technology integration. LIMITED SEATING (75-100) at each session to allow better personal connections and learning environments.
Session A
Location – Weight Room
How To Implement Velocity-Based Training with the High School Population
Maddie Haralson, MS, CSCS
Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Owasso High School (OK)
Coach Haralson will discuss and demonstrate how Owasso HS uses VBT for athletic teams during both in-season and off-season periods. You will dive into the benefits thios tool has provid- ed and walk through future plans with this technology.
Session B
Location – Turf Room
The MORR System: Movement, Overspeed, Resistance & Reaction
Tripp Smith MS, CSCS, CSPS
Owner, Hammer Smith Sports
Associate Director of Performance, NFL Alumni Academy
Participants will learn to apply the principles of the MORR Training System to improve speed, agility, quickness, reaction and power through the use of resistance, overspeed and reaction training drills.
Session C
Location – Cheerleading Gym
DWMA: Dynamic Warm Up Movement Assessment
Mike Bewley, MA, CSCS*D, RSCC*E, SSN, USAW-I
Founder, DWMA & Critical Reload
Traditional movement screens are excellent tools for screening movement limitations in clients. Their value holds substantial merit among physical therapists, athletic trainers, and personal trainers. The problem is what these movement screens teach proves challenging in a group or team setting. The essential information is there, but it must be honed, manipulated, and presented in a way that allows strength coaches to take immediate control. Moreover, traditional movement screens and corrective exercise routines want the strength coach to stop doing their athlete’s lifting and “getting stronger” work to do their “pre-hab” system instead. As a strength coach, I know that strength conquers a heck of a lot, and you can NOT cut that out of your program, or you don’t have a program. The DWMA is a strength coach’s movement screen. It is a performance system that lets you conquer group screening and succinctly apply corrective exercises without sacrificing the athlete’s training. In the DWMA lecture/hands-on sessions, coaches will learn how to make their existing dynamic warm-up a movement screen using the DWMA as a backdrop. Next, coaches will learn to implement corrective exercises into their regular training program as active rest between working sets without impacting training time.
Session D: Location – Practice Gym
How to Build an Assessment System
Rich Burnett, MS, SCCC, CSCS
President of Training Operations, Triple F Sports Training (TN)
In this hands-on presentation. Attendees will learn how to select, standardize, automate, report and evaluate student-athletes’ formal assessments of strength, speed, agility, etc. Rich Burnett will be sharing a template for easy plug and play rosters, test selections and other unique in- formation for each coach’s program. Most of the session will be time spentbuilding out custom reporting via Google Sheets. Please come prepared with a laptop to fully engage in the session and walk away with your own robust assessment system!
7:20-8:10 pm CST
Lecture Series
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Essential Components to a Successful Career in Strength and Conditioning
Ron McKeefery, MA, MSCC, RSCC*E, CSCS*D
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, University of Washington (WA)
You have your Degree, Certifications and some Experience in the field, so why are you still hav- ing trouble making the impact you want to have? In this session, Coach McKeefery will share with you a proven 3-Part Framework designed to make you a complete Strength & Conditioning Coach. He will share with you two decades of experience and examples of things to do, and more importantly, not to do! You will leave with several practical recommendations that you can implement immediately to create stability in an unstable profession.
8:15-8:30 pm CST
Closing Day 2
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Executive Director: Rich Gray President: Eric Cash, EdD
6:00-7:00 am CST
Early Bird Workout
Location: Weight Room
7:00-8:00 am CST
Late Registration Opens
Registration Booth – North Campus Main Entrance
7:00-8:00 am CST
*Optional* Iron Circle Coaches Breakfast
Location: North Campus Cafeteria
Sponsored by Athletes in Action
Guest Speaker – TBD
8:10-9:00 am CST
Lecture Series – Main
The Cheat Code: Female Athlete Buy-In
Taylor Smith, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, USAW-I, TSAC-F
Assistant Sports Performance Coach, The King’s Academy (FL)
This presentation gives the answers and behind the scenes look into being a female in the world of sports. As a former athlete and current coach, Taylor Smith will address questions such as “How to create female athlete buy-in? What is appropriate dress code policy? How do you safely and appropriately spot? How to handle behavioral issues?” This presentation will also go beyond just athlete-focus and help address program and coach centered issues such as “Are my classes unified? Should we hire a female S&C Coach? Is my ego in the way?” These are questions that all coaches should be asking in order to best set the culture of the program. Location – Fieldhouse
9:15-10:05am CST
Hands-On Sessions II
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose a 50-minute hands-on session to attend. All 4 sessions will repeated later in conference to allow coaches to maximize their experience. There will be four options during Session II including olympic lifting, speed, band training options and metabolic strength training. LIMITED SEATING (75-100) at each session to allow better personal connections and learning environments.
Session A
Location – Weight Room
Teaching Olympic Style Weightlifting Movements to Secondary School Students
Rich Lansky, CSCS, RSCC*E, USAW – Senior International Coach, NHSSCA HOF
CJ Stockel, MSED, USAW – Senior International Coach, NHSSCA HOF
A simple and reproducible instructional system will be demonstrated by Coach Stockel and Coach Lansky. This hands-on presentation will highlight a step by step system for teaching the Snatch and Clean & Jerk and the variations. After a brief introduction on philosophy and bio- mechanics, the coaches will take participants through a time-proven, scientifically-based safe and effective teaching progression for each lift. Specific attention will be paid to how the coaches apply instructional cues and corrections to non-weightlifting athletes, in both the high school and general PE settings.
Session B
Location: Turf Room
Coaching a Speed Workout
Tony Holler, Head Track Coach Plainfield North H.S. (IL), “Feed the Cats”
Coach Holler will demonstrate the simplicity of a speed workout with a focus on the essentials of sprint mechanics.
Session C
Location: Cheerleading Gym
Resistance Band Training – Transferring Weightroom Strength and Power into Enhanced On- The-Field Performance
Dave Schmitz, PT, CSCS, PES, Youth Fitness Specialist Level II
Strength & Conditioning Coach, Germantown High School, Founder/Creator, resistancebandtraining.com
Coaches that attend this hands-on lecture will:
- Learn how to use the “ascending variable resistance” of a band to quickly increase or decrease the driving forces of Momentum, Gravity & Ground Reaction.
- Be shown how to build multi-directional strength and resilience with resistance bands on the field or court.
- Learn 4 time efficient weight room setups that combine free-weights with bands to train accelerated concentrics, accelerated eccentrics and dynamic joint stabilization.
- Be taken through a 4-Step training progression to increase “Reactive First Step” acceleration and deceleration speed in multiple planes.
- Be shown how to create time efficient large group multi-directional first step speed and power workouts that also build team chemistry .Plus all coaches that attend will receive a QR code to download 4 Band Training Quick Guides for Coaches that include sport specific videos of band exercises, warm-ups and anywhere workouts for speed, strength and plyometric power. These are the exact training programs Dave’s used for 10 years in his after school high school athletic development program.
Session D
Location: Practice Gym
MRT Power Circuits
Robert dos Remdios, MA, CSCS, MSCC
Session Powered By Perform Better
Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) circuits are a great way to increase power, sport specific strength, conditioning and work capacity. Coach dos Remedios will explore effective and efficient work:rest protocols and participate in easy to implement exercises and drills to optimize training sessions with little or limited equipment and space. This hands-on session will give you the tools, ideas and concepts to use immediately with your athletes on supplemental or stand alone workouts.
10:20-11:10 am CST
Lecture Series – Main Location – Fieldhouse
Gatorade Session – Speaker TBD
11:30-1:00 pm CST
Lunch Provided – Partner Booths Open
Lunch provided in Fieldhouse.
The Partner booths will be open during this time as well for further Q&A.
Unity Council General Meeting: Location (Classroom TBD)
The Unity Council Leadership Committee will hold its annual general meeting for any member interested in participating in initiatives.
General Committee Meetings – (Classrooms TBD)
Membership
Nomination & Awards
Marketing & Communication
Professional Ethics
1:10-2:00 pm CST
Lecture Series
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Finding Money For Your Strength & Conditioning Program
Doug Gle, MS, CSCS, USAW-I
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Traverse City Central (MI)
In this lecture, Coach Gle will cover where and how to find grants, grant writing and creating a budget for a strength and conditioning program or class, general fundraising ideas and examples, why and how to start your own LLC, and how to fund a summer/camp program.
2:15-3:05pm CST
Hands-On Sessions I
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose a 50-minute hands-on session to attend. All 4 sessions will repeated later in conference to allow coaches to maximize their experience. There will be four options during Session I including strength, speed/agility, move- ment assessment and technology integration. LIMITED SEATING (75-100) at each session to allow better personal connections and learning environments.
Session A
Location – Weight Room
How To Implement Velocity-Based Training with the High School Population
Maddie Haralson, MS, CSCS
Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Owasso High School (OK)
Coach Haralson will discuss and demonstrate how Owasso HS uses VBT for athletic teams during both in-season and off-season periods. You will dive into the benefits this tool has provided and walk through future plans with this technology.
Session B
Location – Turf Room
The MORR System: Movement, Overspeed, Resistance & Reaction
Tripp Smith MS, CSCS, CSPS
Owner, Hammer Smith Sports, Associate Director of Performance, NFL Alumni Academy
Participants will learn to apply the principles of the MORR Training System to improve speed, agility, quickness, reaction and power through the use of resistance, overspeed and reaction training drills.
Session C
Location – Cheerleading Gym
DWMA: Dynamic Warm Up Movement Assessment
Mike Bewley, MA, CSCS*D, RSCC*E, SSN, USAW-I
Founder, DWMA & Critical Reload
Traditional movement screens are excellent tools for screening movement limitations in clients. Their value holds substantial merit among physical therapists, athletic trainers, and personal trainers. The problem is what these movement screens teach proves challenging in a group or team setting. The essential information is there, but it must be honed, manipulated, and pre- sented in a way that allows strength coaches to take immediate control. Moreover, traditional movement screens and corrective exercise routines want the strength coach to stop doing their athlete’s lifting and “getting stronger” work to do their “prehab” system instead. As a strength coach, I know that strength conquers a heck of a lot, and you can NOT cut that out of your pro- gram, or you don’t have a program. The DWMA is a strength coach’s movement screen. It is a
performance system that lets you conquer group screening and succinctly apply corrective ex- ercises without sacrificing the athlete’s training. In the DWMA lecture/hands-on sessions, coaches will learn how to make their existing dynamic warm-up a movement screen using the DWMA as a backdrop. Next, coaches will learn to implement corrective exercises into their reg- ular training program as active rest between working sets without impacting training time.
Session D
Location – Practice Gym
How to Build an Assessment System
Rich Burnett, MS, SCCC, CSCS
President of Training Operations, Triple F Sports Training (TN)
In this hands-on presentation. Attendees will learn how to select, standardize, automate, report and evaluate student-athletes’ formal assessments of strength, speed, agility, etc. Rich Burnett will be sharing a template for easy plug and play rosters, test selections and other unique in- formation for each coach’s program. Most of the session will be time spentbuilding out custom reporting via Google Sheets. Please come prepared with a laptop to fully engage in the session and walk away with your own robust assessment system.
3:20-4:10 pm CST
Lecture Series
Main Location – Fieldhouse
Beyond Sets and Reps: Training High School Student-Athletes
John Beerbower, EdD
Director of Strength and Conditioning, McHenry Community High School (IL)
Strength and conditioning professionals have tremendous opportunities to make a difference in the lives of young people. The essential things in a weight room have very little to do with the weights! Success requires a relational focus and a central understanding of how a program fits the larger picture. This session will focus on best practices and principles for helping a teacher-coach connect within their school culture and achieve outcomes beyond the physical fitness aspects of student success. Attendees will be provided strategies for promoting student wellness, understanding social-emotional learning, building a positive culture, and alignment with the classroom. The ultimate goal of the session is to help equip and inspire a strength coach to be one of the most impactful and critical educational leaders in their school.
4:25-5:15pm CST
Hands-On Sessions II
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose a 50-minute hands-on session to attend. All 4 sessions will repeated later in conference to allow coaches to maximize their experience. There will be four options during Session II including olympic lifting, speed, band training options and metabolic strength training. LIMITED SEATING (75-100) at each session to allow better personal connections and learning environments.
Session A
Location – Weight Room
Teaching Olympic Style Weightlifting Movements to Secondary School Students
Rich Lansky, CSCS, RSCC*E, USAW – Senior International Coach, NHSSCA HOF
CJ Stockel, MSED, USAW – Senior International Coach, NHSSCA HOF
A simple and reproducible instructional system will be demonstrated by Coach Stockel and Coach Lansky. This hands-on presentation will highlight a step by step system for teaching the Snatch and Clean & Jerk and the variations. After a brief introduction on philosophy and bio- mechanics, the coaches will take participants through a time-proven, scientifically-based safe and effective teaching progression for each lift. Specific attention will be paid to how the coaches apply instructional cues and corrections to non-weightlifting athletes, in both the high school and general PE settings.
Session B
Location: Turf Room
X-Factor
Tony Holler
Head Track Coach Plainfield North H.S. (IL) – “Feed the Cats”
In contrast to the repetitive fundamentals of the speed workout, Coach Holler’s “X-Factor” workout offers a diverse collection of miscellaneous exercises intended to amplify the qualities of sprinting (bounce, snap, big split, power, and hardwiring motor skills).
Session C
Location: Cheerleading Gym
Resistance Band Training – Transferring Weightroom Strength and Power into Enhanced On- The-Field Performance
Dave Schmitz, PT, CSCS, PES, Youth Fitness Specialist Level II
Strength & Conditioning Coach, Germantown High School, Founder/Creator, resistancebandtraining.com
Coaches that attend this hands-on lecture will:
- Learn how to use the “ascending variable resistance” of a band to quickly increase or decrease the driving forces of Momentum, Gravity & Ground Reaction.
- Be shown how to build multi-directional strength and resilience with resistance bands on the field or court.
- Learn 4 time efficient weight room setups that combine free-weights with bands to train accelerated concentrics, accelerated eccentrics and dynamic joint stabilization.
- Be taken through a 4-Step training progression to increase “Reactive First Step” acceleration and deceleration speed in multiple planes.
- Be shown how to create time efficient large group multi-directional first step speed and power workouts that also build team chemistry .Plus all coaches that attend will receive a QR code to download 4 Band Training Quick Guides for Coaches that include sport specific videos of band exercises, warm-ups and anywhere workouts for speed, strength and plyometric power. These are the exact training programs Dave’s used for 10 years in his after school high school athletic development program.
Session D
Location: Practice Gym
MRT Power Circuits
Robert dos Remdios, MA, CSCS, MSCC
Session Powered By Perform Better
Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) circuits are a great way to increase power, sport specific strength, conditioing and work capacity. Coach dos Remedios will explore effective and effi- cient work:rest protocols and participate in easy to implement exercises and drills to optimize training sessions with little or limited equipment and space. This hands-on session will give you the tools, ideas and concepts to use immediately with your athletes on supplemental or stand alone workouts.
5:30-6:00 pm CST
Special Partner Raffle
Location: Fieldhouse
Sponsor Videos & Raffle/Give-Aways
Hosted by Rich Gray, NHSSCA Executive Director/Co-Founder
6:00-6:30 pm CST
Sweep The Shed #FAMILY Final Closing
Executive Director: Rich Gray
President: Eric Cash, EdD
630-???pm
*Optional* #Family Gathering
Chicago – TBD
Details – TBA
Hotel Accomodations
Conference Hotel
Holiday Inn – Chicago/Tinley Park
18320 N Creek Dr.
Tinley Park, IL 60477
NOTE: We have secured 2 of the 4 hotels have with group booking rates. Hotel with Group code and Book Now buttons are active and ready to take your reservations. We will update the remaining hotels shortly.
Additional Hotels
Hampton Inn
Chicago/Tinley Park
18501 N Creek Dr
Tinley Park, IL 60477
Wingate By Wyndham Tinley Park
18421 N Creek Dr
Tinley Park, IL 60477
GROUP CODE: 062223NAT
Group Rates Expire May 1, 2023
Even Hotel Chicago
Tinley Park-Conv Ctr
18501 Convention Center Dr
Tinley Park, IL 60477
GROUP CODE: NHS
Group Rates Expire May 1, 2023
Travel & Commute Schedule
So that you know, travel from the Chicago O’Hare International Airport to the blocked hotels is 40 minutes. Travel from the hotel to the Homewood-Flossmoor High School hosting site is 15 minutes.
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Who's coming?
81 people are attending Chicago, IL – National Conference // Homewood-Flossmoor High School
