Sports · for coaches
Free tools for youth sports coaches
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For the parent who said yes to coaching: plan tonight's practice in a minute, make a lineup that proves everyone played the same, and print the bracket for the last Saturday of the season. Free, no account, and nothing you type leaves your phone.
The tools
- Practice plan generatorSport, ages, minutes, head count: a timed practice with drawn drills, to print or keep.
- Equal playing time lineupA grid that gives every player the same minutes, within one shift, and rotates positions.
- Bracket makerSingle or double elimination or a round robin, 3 to 16 teams, scores that move winners on.
Ready practices by age
A practice for every sport and age, ready to print. All twenty in one list.
Children's names stay with you
The lineup starts with numbers, 1 to however many you have, and works just as well with jersey numbers. If you would rather see first names you can type them, and they are kept in this browser only: never sent to Peabody or anyone else, never put in a link, gone when you clear them. Plans and brackets hold no child at all.
Where the age rules come from
Every drill is Peabody's own, written in plain words and drawn from above, 48 of them across 4 sports. They were checked on 31 October 2026 against what each sport's own youth guidance says, read at the source:
- NBA and USA Basketball Youth Guidelines: practice and game length, rest, and the rules and standards for ages 7–8, 9–11 and 12–14.
- U.S. Soccer: Game formats: the largest game for each age group.
- Little League Tee Ball Program: a 10-week plan, one practice and one game a week, drills in small groups.
- Little League: Regular Season Pitching Rules: how many pitches a day at each age, and the rest days.
- NFL FLAG: How to play flag football: five a side, the field, rushers seven yards back, a play ends when the flag is pulled.
So the basketball defense drills never reach for the ball (the guidelines rule out stealing from the dribbler at 7–8), the soccer games are small-sided with no goalkeepers for the youngest and there is no heading at any age, the baseball plans have no pitching drills (pitch counts are Little League's, linked, never restated), and flag football has no contact of any kind. No game knocks a child out.
Every plan here has a water break, two in practices over an hour (our rule). On hot days the CDC says to drink more water than usual without waiting to be thirsty, to start slowly and build up, and to practice when it is cooler. CDC: Heat and Athletes. Head knocks and concussion: read CDC HEADS UP, the CDC's page for coaches and parents. CDC HEADS UP. That is all the health advice on these pages: we are not doctors.
For the kids
The Sports page for kids has drills a child can do alone in the yard, read aloud. The Gym has the warm-ups and the group games these plans end with, and teachers will find more at PE games for kids and fitness games.