Catch Me If You Can

Aim:
This game improves acceleration, speed and agility. Player accelerates to one spot and then turns the opposite direction and accelerates again to the start.

Equipment:

• Three markers

Set up:

1. Place one marker on the ground for the starting point
2. Place the second marker 10 paces away from the first marker.
3. Place the third marker, in a straight line, 5 paces away from the second.

 

Procedure:

1. Split team into two teams
2. First team is lined behind the first marker
3. Second team is lined behind the third marker.
4. One player from the first marker sprints to the middle marker then turns and sprints back to the first marker.
5. When the player reaches the middle marker then one player from the third marker sprints to catch (tag) the player sprinting back to the start.
6. Once both players are back at the starting point they then swap spots.

 

Rules:

1. First player starts in their own time.
2. First player must run around the middle marker.
3. Second player can only take off once the first player turns to sprint back to the starting point.
4. One point is awarded to the player who is successful.

 

Advanced:

1. Place a baseball on the middle marker and the first player must pick it up.
2. Place a baseball on the middle marker and the second player must pick it up.