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Sports Essentials

Instructional Sports Videos

Basketball Player Grading: This video covers how to assess the ability of basketball players. This "grading" video is a useful tool to assess and keep track of each player's improvement over time.

Unified Sports Basketball Video: Shows coaches, athletes, partners and officials how the core principles of Unified Sports work in basketball.

Unified Sports Volleyball Coaching Video: This video is designed for use in coach education seminars with specific chapter headings, and it can also be used for general viewing. It's 8:29 in length.

Athlete Development Model Overview: This 3-minute video gives a quick overview of the framework to foster a lifelong sports experience for Special Olympics athletes.

A Day in the Life of a Unified Sports Football Coach: Award-winning video showing what it's like to be a Unified Sports football coach during a big Special Olympics Games. 10 minutes.

A Day in the Life of an Alpine Skiing Coach: Join Cristoph Scheurer, Special Olympics Alpine Skiing coach for Team Germany and member of the Alpine Skiing Sport Resource Team, as he takes you through a "day in the life" of an alpine skiing coach at World Winter Games.

Overview of the Coach Development Model: This video is an overview in English of the coach development model. It is about 4 minutes long.

Unified Sports Mode: lsAn in-depth overview of the Unified Sports competitive, player development and recreational models. The video is 8:11 minutes long.