Drive Defense, Shotblocking & Shooting - Fountain Valley, CA 2025

Led by Jake Cavano and Bella Baia. More about Jake: - 5-year varsity athlete at UCLA/ 2020-2021 National Champion. - Current Professional Athlete - has played for teams in Australia (placed runner up in the AWL) and first league teams in Italy, Hungary and France (competed in Champions League and Euro Cup) competition. More about Bella: Assistant coach for the Princeton Men’s and Women’s Water Polo teams. Division I student-athlete at UCLA from 2018-2022 (also holds a Master’s of Education in Transformative Coaching & Leadership from UCLA). Former work with the UCLA Athletic Department/ Academic Mentor while coaching at Harvard Westlake High School, LA Premier Water Polo Club, and the Coastal Zone Youth ODP team. Athletes are divided into small training groups based on age and skill level. Limited to 22 field players and 6 goalies. Drive defense, post up defense | Shotblocking, zone movements | Shooting (beating block/lateral movements) Warmup: - Introductions/Clinic Overview (10 minutes) - Dryland (5 minutes) - In-water warmup (15 minutes) - Laps of skills (15 minutes) - In-Place Partner Skill Work (15 minutes) [11:00am] Passing (10 minutes) - Incorporating overlap movements / lateral movements Free shooting (5 minutes) Chalk talk (shot blocking / zones) (5 minutes) Shot blocking / zone drills (20 minutes) Chalk talk (drive defense / post up defense) (5 minutes) Drive defense / post up defense skills (20 minutes) Shooting drills - Different release points, lateral movements, stepping in, different fakes, etc. (30 minutes) Live drills - 3 shots - drive, post up, 6m foul; entry pass to kickout shot, beat the block, 1 person zone, 2 person zone, etc. (20 minutes) Closing remarks (5 minutes) OPEN TO ANY AND ALL