Earn. Your. Number.
Running the 6-8 Challenge at a Clinic
Before the Clinic
1. If your club/ team is handling registration, please collect the following information from each athlete:
- 6-8 Athlete ID
- First & Last Name
- Date Of Birth
- Gender
- Email/s (associated with the athlete’s 6-8 app account)
HERE are instructions to send out to parents/ athletes for the 6-8 ID.
2. Create a master google sheet that you share with your program administrator, coaches, and our 6-8 data analyst – see an example HERE. Enter all of the athlete information (listed under #1) into this sheet
3. Print out physical paper data collection sheets to have on deck (for coaches or volunteers to manually record the Challenge results at each station)
Instructions:
One volunteer at each 6-8 Challenge station has one of the printed sheets (along with a pen and clipboard) and manually records the scores from that station
The second volunteer at each station is physically running the drill and dictating the score to the recorder
Notes:
Recorded time of athlete to the hundredth decimal place for all** stations
**ONLY the Medicine Ball station is taken in whole seconds. For example, if an athlete correctly holds the medicine ball for a minute and twenty five seconds, the station operator will write 85 seconds instead of 1:25
Equipment Needed
The 6-8 Kit includes all necessary equipment except the below (which coach/club should provide):
- 10 lb medicine ball or weight
- One radar gun (recommended: a plastic bag to put over as a water protectant)
- 3 weights (over 5 kg/10 lbs) to attach on bottom of station ball buoys (2 for Obstacle Course, 1 for 2 Buoy) – another option is diving blocks
- 8 clipboards and pens/ pencils for the volunteers collecting data
- 8 printed sheets for on-deck data collection (see #3 under “How if Works” above)
- 8 stopwatches
After the Clinic/Event
After all data has been manually recorded by volunteers on the 6-8 data sheets:
- Data enterer collects all copies of the 6-8 data sheets for both field players & goalies
- Begin data entry process in the “Master Google Sheet” (maybe this can be a hyperlink text)
- NOTE: ensure all data has been double checked and the column names/order of stations is not altered in any way.
After data entry is completed in the Master Google Sheet
- Data enterer must check that all data entries are accurate to the physical 6-8 data sheets
- 6-8 will import the “Master Google Sheet” data into our official collective database
- Athletes with a 6-8 ID AND are marked as “official” within the 6-8 app – will have viewing access on the 6-8 app to their color coded 6-8 Challenge results and rankings.
6-8 Athlete Report ( Coach’s Request Only)
The 6-8 Athlete Report is a comprehensive analysis of all athletes’ 6-8 Challenge results (from a club or team). The report includes ‘Notes & Observations’ from Tony or Maggie which are designed to help coaches analyze their overall athlete results and create more specific and effective training routines based off of the data.