Get your players to stand an equal distance around the cones in the middle. There should be one less cone than there are players - so in this instance there are 10 cones and 11 players.
On the coach's call players sprint into the middle and try to collect a cone.
Once players have collected a cone they should run back to their starting position.
To work on speed and acceleration.
You can play this as an elimination game, working your way down to 1 cone and 2 players to find your speediest player!
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