Offseason Hitting Drills for Softball: Build Power & Strength

This weeks tips will focus on some targeted weight training using a weighted bat or your first basemans bat (she is generally the biggest player on the tea

Mastering the Softball Rundown: A Comprehensive Drill

A lot of things can go wrong in a rundown. Heres a drill to make sure your squad is able to execute mistake-free rundowns. Setting Up the Drill To comp

Indoor Softball Drills: Prepare for Spring Season

In many of the northern states softball practice has to begin before the weather outside is nice enough for practice. So the first few practices have to be

Effective Softball Conditioning Drills for Team Performance

Many coaches recognize the importance of softball conditioning. However, because there are so many things to achieve in practice, coaches just dont have

Improve Your Softball Game: Hitting the Outside Pitch Drill

Welcome to Drill of the Week, a series on ACTIVEkids.com that explains individual and team drills for parents and coaches to help kids improve at the sports the

Improve Batting Performance: Game-Ready Hitting Drills & Tips

  Is practice really preparing your batters for what theyll face in a game? Do you tend to have batters that look awesome in practice during drills or o

Softball Swing Mechanics: Generating Power & Bat Speed

There is a common misconception that the softball swing differs greatly from a baseball swing. Its simply not true. Sure there are slight variations between the

Comprehensive Guide to Running Successful Softball Tryouts

Not sure how to organize a fastpitch tryout? Here are some tips on how to structure your tryouts and ensure you find the best players for your squad. Advantage

Mastering Ground Ball Glovework: Tips for Infielders

Feel like your squads glovework on ground balls could improve? Here are some tips to make sure your infielders are in a position to make the best defensive play

Ground Ball Fielding Drill: Improve Infield Technique

The idea of this drill is to teach new and intermediate fielders—especially infielders—to get in the habit of centering on ground balls. (Im not s