Softball Ground Ball Fielding Checklist

softball fielding checklist

Softball skills can be very complicated.  For new athletes who are learning these skills, there can be so much information that it can be overwhelming.  I put the softball ground ball fielding checklist together as a great tool for breaking the skills down in smaller and easier to implement chunks of information for them.

For practice I would print them off and laminate them and then have the players actually evaluate each other with them.  I would use the activity very often but a few times through the season so that they could reflect on their own abilities while working with their team mates.  Sometimes to the tools we use to teach a skill is a great way to learn a skill as well.

Softball Ground Ball Fielding Checklist

Preparation

_____ your shoulders are square or facing the batter

_____ feet about shoulder width apart with the glove foot a little bit ahead of the other

_____ Weight is slightly forward (on the balls of your feet) balanced side to side

_____ knees are bent bringing you low to the ground

_____ glove hand is almost touching the ground in front of the body

_____ the throwing hand is beside the glove ready for clean fielding

_____ your back is flat and upright so you are facing the batter

_____ eyes are on the ball

Execution

_____ keep your eyes on the ball

_____ hands are low with the glove open to the ball

_____ move to the ball and meet it in front of the body

_____ use two hands (alligator) to field the ball into the glove

_____ watch the ball into your glove

_____ the throwing hand is over the ball and getting ready to throw

Follow Through

_____ weight is moving back with the ball in your throwing hand

_____ the glove side elbow is pointing toward where you are going to throw the ball

_____ the glove side of the body is pointing toward the target

_____ the ball is in throwing position

_____ eyes are on the target you are going to throw to