Posts Tagged ‘coaching girls softball’
How to Not Stink. (Too much) | Softball is for Girls
How not to stink! But first….we think you should EMBRACE the STINK, at least a little. Because for one, you are an athlete and your body is purging toxins while you are out there exercising and that is a good thing!
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Does Size matter? | Softball is For Girls
Let’s try this one more time for the people in the BACK… Commenting or judging female athletes because of their SIZE, is rude – and has ZERO place on the ballfield. Read on…
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How Not to Be a Sucky Softball Coach | Softball Is For Girls
Coaching. It’s a hard gig and can be a cocktail for disaster. Between parents, and dealing with players, and trying to make decisions for the greater good of all, that will certainly not be agreed upon by everyone involved – being a softball coach is not an easy feat. So first… We want to thank…
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Among Your Softball Team…
15 Years from today (FROM RIGHT NOW) the vast majority of these girls will NOT be playing softball.
What will the girls remember about you? What will they takeaway from their time on the field? What are you doing to encourage the skills they do have, to take advantage of their strengths? How will the girls among your team, remember you?
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Beneath Every Softball Jersey Lies a Soul
We love our fan questions. We really, really, really do! We know that it takes guts to ask some of these questions, which is why we offer the option to do so anonymously. Yesterday, we received an anonymous fan question/fan share – where the sender begged us to share it with all of you and…
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A Letter to My Softball TEAM at the End of the Season
A Letter to My Softball Team at the End of the Season: It is at this time every year, when the grass on the softball fields begins to brown from too much summer heat and the stains on your uniform are no longer fazed by your moms Iron Out, that I am able to look…
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10 Questions to Ask Your Softball Players
Softball is the perfect balance of an individual and team sport. No one person can be successful alone, and every individual has a job to do to make it work. Largely, when it comes to team dynamics and culture – it is the adults (parents and coaches) who have the most input. They are the…
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The Sins of the Father (or Mother)
There is an old adage that the perfect team of youth athletes would consist of a team of orphans. And one of the ugly truths of youth sports is that the adults (parents) are most often the culprit in turning what should be an empowering atmosphere – into one full of drama and stress. We…
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One GREAT SOFTBALL Idea! SCORE-STIX
Traveling around to softball tournaments, you learn the ropes pretty quickly. By your second tournament you realize that packing extra toilet paper is a GREAT idea, that having a shade tent makes passing the hours at the field during the summer heat more enjoyable, and that a rolling wagon is well worth the $65. Still,…
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The Human Side of Girls Softball
A few days ago, we had a coach write in to us, torn about the fact that one of his players failed a drug test at her school and was removed from the softball team. Should he do the same thing, and remove this girl – one who had been playing with him for three…
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Softball. It’s Really About the Girls
My daughters have been playing softball for many years now. We encourage them to play, coach their teams, and take on the added financial stresses and time consumption associated with involving children in sports for one reason. To offer a life environment to our children that fosters the healthiest growth. Playing sports, being involved with…
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Should Girls Stay in One Fastpitch Position?
Oh wow. Here is one of those questions that standardly comes up when a parent is pissed off. Why? Because their daughter, whom they feel is the optimal 3rd baseman has been playing centerfield for the past 2 months. Let’s not forget one thing. She has made some pretty awesome catches out there, saving the…
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Is Travel Ball Better than Rec Ball?
OMG. It gets so tiring to listen to people complaining about recreation league ball teams. The truth is that most girls start out in Rec. Years ago, the only girls and parents who took the plunge to travel teams were the ones that truly knew their daughter had a shot. Today, EVERYONE IS ON A…
