Posts Tagged ‘girls softball’
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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Softball Drama – Not with THIS Mama
Listen girls. And coaches. And parents. There is already way too much drama in a girls life. The one place that she should feel safe from all the melodrama is on the softball field. In the years coaching fastpitch softball, there hasnt been a single season. Not one single season – that hasnt involved some…
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Fastpitch Softball Drills – Coaching Tips
Do you use fastpitch drills to help condition your team? It’s a fact that there is a fastpitch softball drill you can use for nearly every single teaching lesson known to the softball player. And using the drills are perfect as a reminder for keeping your girls in form and teaching the fundamentals. But how…
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Strike 1, Strike 2, Strike 3 – Your OUT – Fastpitch Hitting
There is nothing more frustrating than watching your child, or one of your players go through a hitting slump. They always seem to come on at just the wrong time, like when you are playing in a championship game or when you are behind by one stinking run with bases loaded and two outs in…
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Girls Need to Feel Good to Play Good
During one of the last fall tournaments, the team had a pretty bad showing. There were a lot of emotionally turbulent things going on within the team and among the members. You can only imagine how this affected 10 normally competitive and adept softball players. (It wasnt pretty!) When it comes to coaching girls teams…
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Fastpitch. Not Just a Game
I have met a lot of girls who play fastpitch. It seems to me, that nearly every girl I meet, expereinces some sort of emotional high when they are standing on the field. Maybe its the dirt. Or maybe its the generalized excuse of the game that allows girls to get aggressive and mean for…
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Silly boys….Softball IS for Girls
As a parent of four girls, it is often frustrating to see how much emphasis is placed on baseball, while fastpitch players seem to get thrown in the background. The girls work just as hard, sweat just as much, spend as much time at the field as the boys, yet never seem to get the…
