5 team bonding initiatives to grow your 🏀 program’s CULTURE #Culture102
1\ Locker Room 2K Tournament
Have your players bring in a gaming system and run an NCAA style tournament
Your players will have so much fun you will have to kick them out
Talk a lot of smack
2\ “Bio Night”
Pair players together and have them ask a template of questions to learn more about each other, fostering a deeper relationship
Then have the players present the information to the rest of the team one by one
Everyone learns a little more about everyone else
3\ Team Dinners
On a regular basis, go out to eat or have food catered into the school to enjoy a meal together
I’ve always done this on a bi-weekly basis after a practice, getting the majority of the food donated through sponsorships
It’s fun and low pressure
4\ Team Bowling
Bowling is cheap, fun, and no one cares if you're any good or not
Reserve a few lanes, order some pizzas, and relax in the company of your players and coaches
Use wacky formats to make things more fun and inclusive
5\ Talent Show
Have players choose something to demonstrate to the team
Run 3-4 “talents” after practice for the first week or so until everyone has had a turn
This is a fun way to get players to let their guard down and show a different side of themselves
We’ve had players:
-Create art
-Do sketch comedy
-Do impersonations
-Demonstrate feats of strength
-Lip sync songs
-and many more fun things