The midcourt champion coached one of the teams in the Fast5 battle at the camp and earned bragging rights from Thunderbirds assistant coach Dan Ryan, who was in charge of the other side.
"The players got through four sessions of heavy-duty match simulation courtwork."ĭefender Sharni Layton, who had shoulder surgery after last season, successfully negotiated the camp and will contest the Melbourne Vixens Summer Challenge in Melbourne this weekend.Ĭaptain Nat von Bertouch adopted a restricted program while she recovers from finger surgery. "Our camp has always been technically focused. It has been about mental decision-making as much as it has been physical. "That would disrupt what we need to work on and that is our technical phase. But the way we prepare ourselves with a very physical focus up to this point, why would we undertake such an activity where they are going to be sore for three weeks? "I think our strength and conditioning program is collaborated very scientifically towards peaking us at the right time. "I don't see any point whatsoever in doing a boot camp," Woodlands-Thompson said. There were four seriously demanding court workouts and Woodlands-Thompson wanted to see the players implement plans for the season under pressure of tiredness - mentally and physically. That is not to say the weekend was not exhausting.
Trusting in her fitness and conditioning program, Woodlands-Thompson prefers to use a weekend to ram home to her players the on-court requirements for the looming assault on the ANZ Championship.Īnd that is how it was the past three days in Goolwa with a heavy tactical and technical emphasis. ADELAIDE Thunderbirds coach Jane Woodlands-Thompson has never been one to adopt the gut-busting commando-style pre-season camp.
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