Off season softball training sometimes even requires more planning than during the season. One of the most common statements that I hear when coaches talk about off season training is “it just gets boring” My [Read More]
Motivating Your Softball Team Today I am going to talk about motivating athletes to develop work ethic and self direction in managing their own improvement successes in softball. It is the best way to not [Read More]
To motivate softball athletes is what most coaches strive to do. The question though is what is motivation and what is motivating softball athletes? There are as many ways to describe motivation as there are [Read More]
Coaching softball players to success is often done through repetition of basic drills that are designed to lead to correct execution during competition. But what if we did more than that, and were able to [Read More]
Mean Parents and Fans Ok… watching an NCAA game with an experienced team and a team that is new into the NCAA Div 1. Its the bottom of the 6th inning and the new team [Read More]
The end goal of softball should be that number one, everyone participates and number two that everyone continue to participate in softball at some level right into their retirement. This is the goal of Long [Read More]
Levels of Softball Investment Today we are going to talk about the levels of investment and how they affect interactions with players, parents, coaches and officials. How invested are you and how does that affect [Read More]
Lessons from the Softball College World Series Today I am going to talk about something that is probably still on the minds of many. The championship series of the women’s college world series. What a [Read More]
Leading Off after the Pitch in Softball This leading off after the pitch in softball drill is perfect when you do not have a lot of time to practice with your team and they are [Read More]
Keeping The Softball Lead This topic is from Kelley Mills of MD Md. She asks, What do you do when you have a lead to keep that lead instead of losing it and then losing [Read More]
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