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Basic Sports Skills is a one hour activity course designed for the Health & Human Performance Major/minor.  It includes the basic fundamental skills necessary to perform skillfully in a majority of sports/activities taught in Elementary and Secondary schools. 
The sports/activities and their specific skills will be:

Badminton – serve, smash, clear, drop, [forehand & backhand]
Baseball/Softball
– batting, throwing [outfield & infield], catching [one hand & two hand], ready position, fielding ground balls.

Basketball
– basic shot [free throw], dribbling, lay-up, chest pass, defensive position.
Calisthenics
– jumping rope, 10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups, 15 crunches, 5 dynamites, jumping Jacks.
Football – punting, passing, catching, over-the-shoulder catch.
Fundamental skills – ready position, slide, back peddle, cross-over, split step.

Frisbee
– throw & catch.
Golf – grip, set-up, basic swing.
Locomotion – skipping, hopping, galloping, jumping [power jump & one leg take off]
Pington – serve, smash, clear, drop, [forehand & backhand].
Running/Jogging – sprinting, basic jogging, changing directions, running backwards.
Soccer – passing, catching [trapping], shooting, dribbling, heading
Table tennis – forehand, backhand, serve.
Tennis – serve, forehand/backhand ground strokes.
Track & Field – long jump, triple jump, start.
Tumbling – forward/backward roll, cartwheel, round-off, tripod head stand, balancing skills.
Volleyball – bump pass, overhead/underhand serve, setting, spiking.

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Link to course syllabus

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