Tic Tac Toe

Players play a relay race of high-speed tic-tac-toe using soccer objects.

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• Set Up

  • Set two cones about 3 yards apart as the starting point.

  • Using cones, create a tic-tac-toe board about 10 yards from the starting cones.

  • Divide the team into two groups.

  • Give the first three players in each group 1 one color of pinnies/flat cones

• Equipment

  • Disc cones

  • Ball (optional)

  • Pinnies

• Objective

  To have their team win tic-tac-toe by getting three objects in a row.

• Directions

  • On the coach’s command, the first players in each line race to the tic-tac-toe board and drop a pinny in one of the nine spaces.

  • Player 1 races back to the line and high-fives Player 2.

  • Player 2 races to the tic-tac-toe board and drops a pinny in one of the spaces and so on.

  • Since player 4 does not have a pinny in hand, this player races to the tic-tac-toe board and can move ONE of their colored pinnies to an open space.

  • This continues until one of the teams wins the game.

• Variations

  • Have players do different dynamic stretches/runs while racing to the tic tac toe board (high knees, lunges, backward jog, etc).

  • The game pieces can be different colored balls and the players can dribble to the tic-tac-toe board

• Coaching Points

  • Encourage teams to cheer for each other

  • Review Tic-tac-Toe rules

Week 8, Day 1

Reflection: Social Awareness

*Give feedback to your captain on how they did running this game.

1. What was something you liked? What can they improve on?

This week we are talking about Social Awareness: recognizing other people’s feelings and supporting them.

I want you to ask me how I am feeling and I’m going to respond and then you tell me how I’m feeling.

1: Player: How are you feeling? Coach: (with a sad voice, head down, hands in pockets) I’m fine.

(players guess feeling)- How did you know how I was feeling?

1: Player: How are you feeling? Coach: (with an angry voice, loud, hands in fists) I’m having a great day.

(players guess feeling)- How did you know how I was feeling?

2. What did we learn from this exercise?

-People don’t always say what they are feeling and we can look to their tone and body language

Week 9, Day 2

Reflection: Relationship Skills

1. Who would you like to shout out from the other team?

Today we are continuing to work on resolving any conflicts without arguing.

2.  Imagine you are playing a scrimmage and the ball goes out of bounds but you think it was on the other team and they think it was on you. How would you resolve this?

-Wait for the coach to come and decide

-Take a deep breath and explain what you saw

-Remind yourself we are here to play and have fun and we can replay the possession