Drill Library

The drill library is your team’s playbook for practice. It’s a searchable collection of drills — each with a name, description, estimated duration, and focus tags — that you can pull into any practice plan. Think of it as a toolkit: build it once, reuse it all season.

What Is a Drill?

A drill in UltiStackr represents a single practice activity. It could be anything from a basic throwing warm-up to a complex endzone offense walkthrough. Each drill includes:

Name — a short, descriptive title (e.g., “3-Person Mark Drill” or “Ho Stack Cutting Progression”)
Description — instructions, coaching points, setup details, or anything your team needs to run the drill
Duration estimate — how long the drill typically takes in minutes
Focus tags — categories like “endzone defense,” “handler movement,” “short field,” “hucking,” or “zone offense”
Linked plays — optional connections to plays in your playbook for visual reference (see Linking Plays to Drills)

Creating a New Drill

To create a drill:

Navigate to Practice Planning > Drill Library.
Tap + New Drill.
Fill in the drill details:
- Name — give it something memorable. “Breakside Continuation” is better than “Drill 7.”
- Description — describe the setup, how the drill runs, and key coaching points. The more detail, the easier it is for someone else on your coaching staff to run it.
- Duration — enter the estimated time in minutes. This is used to calculate total practice time when you add the drill to a plan.
- Focus tags — select one or more tags from the list, or create a custom tag. Tags make it easy to filter drills later when building a practice plan.
Tap Save.

When writing drill descriptions, include the number of players needed, field setup, and any equipment required. Your future self (and your assistant coaches) will thank you.

Personal Drills vs Team Drills

UltiStackr supports two types of drills:

Personal Drills

Created by you, visible only to you
Great for building your own coaching library before sharing with the team
Can be promoted to team drills at any time

Team Drills

Visible to all team members with practice planning access
Shared across the coaching staff and can be added to any team practice plan
Editable by owners and coaches (depending on your team’s permission settings)

To convert a personal drill to a team drill, open the drill and tap Share with Team. To go the other direction, team drills can be duplicated into your personal library.

Personal drills are perfect for coaches who work with multiple teams. Build your library once and share specific drills with each team as needed.

Beyond the personal/team distinction, you can share individual drills with specific collaborators:

Open the drill you want to share.
Tap the Share icon.
Search for a collaborator by name or email and select them.
Choose their permission level:
- View only — they can see the drill but not edit it
- Can edit — they can modify the drill details

Shared drills appear in the collaborator’s drill library alongside their other drills.

Like playbooks, drills have a visibility setting:

Private (default) — only visible to you and your collaborators
Public — viewable by anyone with the share link

Public drills can be copied by other users into their own library. They also display a view count.

You can generate a short code share link for any drill (e.g., /s/ABC123). Anyone with the link can view the drill in read-only mode, even without an UltiStackr account.

Sharing drills is a great way to collaborate with coaches from other teams, exchange ideas from coaching clinics, or build drills with your co-captain before rolling them out to the full squad.

Browsing and Searching the Drill Library

As your library grows, you’ll need ways to find the right drill quickly. UltiStackr gives you several options:

Search

Use the search bar at the top of the drill library to search by drill name or description keywords.

Filter by Focus Tags

Tap the Filter icon to narrow drills by focus tags. For example, filter by “zone defense” when you’re building a practice plan focused on breaking zones.

Personal vs Team View

Toggle between viewing your personal drills, team drills, or all drills using the tabs at the top of the library.

Editing a Drill

To edit an existing drill:

Open the drill from the library.
Tap Edit.
Make your changes to any field — name, description, duration, tags, or linked plays.
Tap Save.

Editing a team drill updates it everywhere — including any practice plans that already include it. If you want to make a variation without affecting existing plans, use Duplicate to create a copy first.

Deleting a Drill

To delete a drill:

Open the drill from the library.
Tap the More menu (three dots).
Select Delete.
Confirm the deletion.

Deleting a drill removes it from your library. If the drill is included in any practice plans, those plans will show a placeholder indicating the drill was removed. The plan itself is not deleted.

Deleted team drills are moved to a 30-day trash. A team admin can restore them during that window if needed.

Tips for Building a Great Drill Library

Be specific with names — “Endzone Iso Cut Drill (4v4)” is much more useful than “Endzone Drill.”
Tag generously — a drill can have multiple focus tags. A give-and-go drill might be tagged “handler movement,” “continuation,” and “short field.”
Include variations — note easier or harder variations in the description so you can adjust on the fly during practice.
Link plays — if a drill is designed to practice a specific play, link it so players can see exactly what they’re running.
Review and prune — at the end of each season, archive drills you no longer use to keep your library clean.