Youth Basketball

Skills Checklists for Youth Players

See a table of U8 to U14 Player Skills, with links to YouTube skills videos that are also organized in playlists:

• U8 skills
• U10 skills
• U12 skills
• U14 skills

For more detail and advanced skills, see Fundamentals - Skills Checklists, also WABC Coaches Manuals.

A skills checklist is a notional curriculum that can be adjusted  for players at different stages of development. It is not a list of what every player should be able to do at their age level; some players will be acquiring skills, others will be refining or mastering them.

For comparison, see these skills curricula (pdfs),

• U8
  • SNYB FUNdamentals, Mega Hoops FUNdamentals
  • Jr. NBA Rookie Skills Checklist
• U10, U12
  • SNYB Learn to Train, Mega Hoops Learn to Train
  • Jr. NBA Starter Skills Checklist
• U14
  • SNYB Train to Train
  • Jr. NBA All-Star Skills Checklist
  • also Gooroo Youth Basketball Drills
    • grades 5 to 8
    • instructional videos by skill area
• High School
  • SNYB Train to Train Phase 2, Train to Compete
  • Jr. NBA MVP Skills Checklist
• Greenvale Grizzlies Skills Checklist
  • U8 to U18
  • ages to introduce, refine and master skills

Also see a comparison of youth skills curricula by age range.

Coach Lynch Basketball has curricula by grade (see this table for all grades):

• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5
• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Also see Hardwood Texas Fundamentals Checklist (grades 4-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12).

Drills and practice plans are the resources needed to deliver a curriculum. See Youth Basketball for a range of options including the Jr. NBA Curriculum.