Softball Coaching Tools - Softball Tutor

First Team Meeting

This is a quick guideline that you can use when planning your first team meeting. This first team meeting is the beginning of what your season is going to be about. This is where you […]

Facilitate Team Success, Appreciate Your Softball Team

When you consider the amount of tasks we complete as a softball coach, it is helpful to consider how we facilitate softball team success. A facilitator is one who essentially assists or guides others in accomplishing a task […]

Educate Softball Players

As coaches we educate every day, sometimes without even knowing it. We also have the opportunity to educate softball players without setting up a specific session to relay information. Giving a direction to our players without […]

Demonstrate Softball Improvement

So often, coaches say something but do something else. Or they make a plan with the team to make big improvements and then some of the ideas fall away due to time constraints or lack […]

Delegate Softball Tasks

As coaches, it is common for us to think that if we want things done right we need to do it ourselves. I know that’s how I did things when I started. What I learned […]

Communicate With Your Softball Team

To communicate with your softball team is more than giving signals from the dugout or third base. Coaches communicate at times more with their actions and body language more than their words. Being aware of […]

Coaching Online Resources

Softball coaches today have access to an abundance of online coaching resources. From coaching clinics, coaching manuals and coaching videos, there is a wealth of knowledge available. For those coaching at the amateur level, coaching […]

Appreciate Your Softball Team

One of the best ways to get to really know your team is to appreciate your softball team. To truly appreciate your softball team, officials, parents and supporters, is to understand why they are participating […]