Austin Youth Basketball · High School Girls
Day 1 of basketball class is 19 days away.
Somebody is going to decide who she is that week. Make sure they’re watching the right player.
Small-group training for high school girls. Built on the USA Basketball and FIBA curriculum, then taken past it. Expert shot coaching. How to actually score. And the mindset work almost nobody does.
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Full curriculum below. No email required.
Coached under USA Basketball’s Don Showalter and the nation’s best shooting coaches
FIBA masters competitor for Austin Masters · Trains European clubs
~100 players placed D1 · D2 · D3 · NAIA
01 — The problem
The season gets decided
before the season starts
Here’s what actually happens in August.
She walks into the gym. The coach has maybe six days of live looks before the depth chart starts forming in her head. She’s watching who finishes with the left hand. Who talks. Who boxes out when nobody’s keeping score. Who throws it away under pressure.
That’s it. That’s the evaluation.
Nobody tells kids this. They think tryouts are the audition. Tryouts are the confirmation. The opinion was already formed.
Tryouts aren’t the audition. They’re the confirmation.
And the summer that was supposed to fix it
Most girls spend it doing nothing or just attend the HS “mandatory summer workouts”. Three months off, then four days of conditioning and a prayer. Don’t believe me? Ask them what new moves they got down last week? Ask what is their shooting percentage progress.
Or a lot of activity that isn’t training. Tournaments every weekend. Showcases. A trainer running the same ballhandling circuit with fifteen other kids and a speaker. Sweaty, tired, exactly as good as she was in May.
Activity isn’t development. Nobody stopped her. Nobody corrected her. Nobody explained anything.
02 — The turn
Coaches don’t give minutes
to the most talented kid.
Ask any high school coach. They’ll tell you the same thing — and almost no parent has ever heard it said out loud.
Talent gets her seen. Trust gets her on the floor in the fourth quarter.
And trust is built out of unglamorous, completely coachable things. Not one of them is a gift. Every one of them is trainable before the season starts.
- She doesn’t turn it over
- She talks on defense
- She takes the right shot, not the available one
- She boxes out when nobody’s watching
- She’s where she’s supposed to be
- She doesn’t need three possessions to recover from a mistake
We build the player a coach can’t take off the floor.
03 — What changes
What she actually
gets back
Not promises. These are the things that change when the work is right.
01
A roster spot she isn’t nervous about
Walking into August prepared instead of hopeful.
02
More minutes
Earned the only way minutes are ever earned — by being the kid who doesn’t cost the team possessions.
03
A bigger role on offense
A shot the coach believes in. A second and third way to score. Options instead of one move.
04
More points
Not more shots. Better shots, finished with both hands, plus the free throws almost nobody teaches how to earn.
05
Defense she’s proud of
There’s a specific confidence that comes from being the kid the coach puts on their best player. We build that on purpose.
06
A season she enjoys
Playing loose instead of scared. Recovering from a bad game in a day instead of a month. Still loving it in February.
07
And yes — winning
Better players win more. I don’t control your team’s record. But a kid who takes care of the ball, guards, and makes free throws wins closer games.
04 — Past the manual · Shooting
Shooting.
This is what we’re known for.
No manual will fix a shot. They hand you B.E.E.F. and a diagram. That’s a starting point. It’s not a shot.
Fixing a shot is diagnostic work. You watch a hundred reps and change one thing — because if you change two, you learn nothing. You know the elbow isn’t the problem, the base is. You know the ball is dying short because the legs quit, not because the arm is weak.
Hand under the ball, finger pads, light at the thumb. Elbow in a “U,” not a “V.” The guide hand guides — it never pushes. Power from the glutes and legs. Same finish every rep. Eyes on one spot on the rim.
Form that survives fatigue — the only form that shows up in the fourth quarter.
05 — Past the manual · Scoring
Scoring — and how
to get to the line
Free throws are the most ignored points in basketball.
Uncontested. Worth the same as everything else. And almost nobody teaches a high schooler how to earn them.
Getting fouled is a skill. Angles. Contact. Finishing through a body instead of ducking it. Feeling when a defender is beat and leaning in instead of fading away.
Available at any size, right now.
FREE THROW LINE
UNCONTESTED POINTS
ALMOST NOBODY TEACHES
HOW TO EARN THEM
Six trips to the line changes the math of every close game.
06 — Past the manual · Mindset
Mindset, nerves,
and a season
she enjoys
This is the half that decides whether the skills ever show up. The free throw with the gym watching. The game after a bad game. Coming back from an injury.
We coach it straight — what to lock onto, what to let go, how to reset in one possession instead of three. USA Basketball’s own guidebook has a full section on fear of failure and letting go of setbacks. Most programs skip that chapter. We don’t. We believe in playing and training with joy.
Straight about what this is: competition nerves, not therapy. If she needs more than that, I’ll tell you and help you find the right person.
A mentally healthy season
High school basketball breaks a lot of girls’ love for the game. Bench time she doesn’t understand. A coach who only corrects. Comparing herself to a teammate every single day. We talk about it directly — because a kid who stops enjoying it stops improving, and then stops playing.
Being a real teammate — as actions, not a poster
- Talk on defense every possession. Out loud. By name
- First one up when a teammate comes off the floor
- Point at the passer after a made basket
- Take the harder matchup before anyone asks
- Own the turnover. Don’t look at the ref
- Say the honest thing kindly, then let it go
- “Be a good teammate.”
07 — The part nobody else trains
Landing and
deceleration.
Every session.
For girls this isn’t a nice extra. It’s the most important ten minutes in the gym.
Most ACL tears in basketball are non-contact. A bad landing. A hard cut. A stiff-legged stop. The research on neuromuscular training isn’t ambiguous — these programs cut ACL risk roughly 25-33%.
Knees over toes. Soft landings on two feet. Correct foot layups. Vision to the goal and contact. INititiating contact reather than being a victim. Controlled stops. Every session.
KNEE OVER TOE
KNEE COLLAPSED IN
WHAT WE COACH
WHAT TEARS ACLs
She can be the best player in the gym. Doesn’t matter if she’s on crutches in January.
08 — How we coach
No private equity.
No regional director.
It’s me, and a system I built over years of doing this as a player, a coach, a trainer, and a parent. I have trained with 5 of the top ten shooting coaches of all time.
Not theory I read. Reps I put in. And I coach your daughter — the individual. Her health, her happiness, and whether she actually gets better. Not the roster.
We stop, correct, and explain
Three things. Most training skips two of them. A kid corrected without the why fixes it for one rep. A kid who understands the why fixes it for good. So we stop the drill. Every time. Even when it kills the tempo. Especially then.
We hold them accountable and we catch them doing it right
Both. Not one. A gym that only corrects breeds kids afraid to try anything. A gym that only cheers breeds kids who think everything they do is fine.
I don’t buy the 10,000 hours thing
Ten thousand hours of the same thing makes you very good at the same thing. Basketball never hands you the same thing twice. Nobody ever got a wide-open catch-and-shoot from the exact spot they practiced it, with nobody closing out.
She will fail in our gym. On purpose. Regularly. Where failing is safe and costs nothing. That’s not being soft on failure — it’s using it.
- 30 kids
- Run the drill
- High-five everybody
- Same reps, every week
- A spreadsheet
- [10] max
- Stop, correct, explain
- Accountable and caught doing it right
- Changed constraints
- A coach
09 — The scoreboard
Every player knows
her numbers
Tested, written down, retested. No vague “she’s improving.” A number, a date, and a plan.
10 — When and where
Thursdays.
[6:00–7:30 PM].
11 — Why me
I’ll tell you
the truth about
your daughter.
I’m Chris Corbett. I coach in Austin. I played college ball at the NAIA level. I’ve put roughly 100 players into college programs across D1, D2, D3 and NAIA.
Youth Development
Certified
Coached at Snow Valley under Don Showalter
FIBA masters competitor · Trains European clubs
Dad of two daughters who played college basketball
I’ve learned this game from four sides — player, coach, trainer, and a parent watching my own girls go through exactly this.
I’ve sat where you’re sitting. Writing the checks. Wondering if any of it was working.
12 — If college is on the table
Most won’t play in college.
That’s fine.
Everything above still applies. But if it’s real for your daughter, here’s what almost nobody tells you.
Division I coaches can’t contact a recruit until June 15 after sophomore year. Division II, Division III, NAIA and junior college coaches can contact recruits at any time. And a player can reach out to any coach, in any division, on any day of the year.
The June 15 date isn’t the start of recruiting. Coaches build their lists long before it — at events, online, through club coaches. By the time a phone can legally ring, the board already exists.
Every family chases the same 1.1%. The D2, D3 and NAIA doors are open right now, to anyone, with no waiting period — and almost nobody is knocking.
That’s where I’ve spent a career. Roughly 100 players. Most of them not D1.
I’m not selling recruiting here. But if it’s real for her, I’ll tell you honestly where she stands and what the path actually looks like.
13 — Fit
Who this is for
- High school girls who want to make the team, play more, and matter on the floor
- Players who’ll do the boring work
- Families who want a real standard, not a highlight reel
- Anyone shopping for viral dribble moves
- Families who need a flexible, drop-in, make-it-up-later schedule. This is a reserved spot, not a punch card
- Families who want a guarantee she starts. I can’t sell that and I won’t
- Players who aren’t ready to be coached yet
14 — The guarantee
Come to the
first session
If it isn’t the most organized, most useful ninety minutes of basketball she’s had, tell me and I’ll refund the month. No argument. No awkwardness.
I’ll guarantee the work. I won’t guarantee playing time. Nobody honest will.
15 — Questions
Straight answers
Can [90] days really change anything before the season?
Not everything. Enough. In [90] days a player can fix a shot, add a finish with the off hand, clean up her footwork, and learn to talk on defense. Coaches notice all four inside a week. What it won’t do is undo two years of nothing — I’ll tell you straight where she actually sits.
She already plays club. Is this redundant?
No. Club competes. We train. Most club schedules are almost entirely games — and games are where you find out what you don’t have, not where you fix it.
She’s a freshman. Is it too early?
It’s the best time. The freshman who walks in already coachable gets looked at differently for four years.
She’s a senior. Is it too late?
For a full rebuild, maybe. For a better shot, a second scoring option, and a season she’s proud of — no.
Is she too far behind?
Probably not. We test where she actually is and build from there. That’s what the scorecard is for.
What if we miss a session?
You miss it. No makeups, no credits. Same as her school team — practice happens whether she’s there or not. I’m paying for the floor either way, and her spot is held either way. That’s what holding it means. Give me a heads up when you can.
What does she bring?
Ball, water, shoes that fit. That’s it.
Somebody is going to form an opinion about your daughter in the first week of August.
It will follow her all season — into the huddle, into the rotation, into the fourth quarter or the end of the bench.
Purpose.
Power.
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