Effective Communication Strategies for Softball Coaches

How you communicate with your players and their parents will go far in determining what kind of season you have. Quite simply, if you communicate effective

Softball Coaching Fundamentals: A Guide for Beginner Coaches

If you have never taught or coached anything before, teaching a group of young boys or girls how to play softball can be rather intimidating. And as we di

Effective Softball Practice Planning: Engaging Drills & Focused Coaching

To have successful practices, you must take into account the attention span and skill level of your players. If your playersare young and/or inexperienced

Maximize Team Success: Setting Effective Practice Goals

Practice is the most important part of any teams season—even more important than games. You will practice anywherefrom two to five times more often t

Recovery & Fitness: Offseason Training Tips from a Professional Softball Player

USA softball had a successful trip to Guadalajara, Mexico for the 2011 Pan Am games where we captured a gold medal. While in Guadalajara we played a total

Holiday Fitness for Softball Players: Stay in Shape During the Holidays

How do holiday feasts fit in with training schedules and the proper nutrition? It is certainly a challenge to eat all of the right foods and keep my body p

Essential Arm Mechanics for Young Softball Pitchers: A Beginner's Guide

Young fastpitch hurlers can often get overwhelmed by whats expected of them when on the mound. But as the saying goes, analysis can lead to paralysis, and

Enhance Softball Pitching: 3 Lower-Body Drills for Velocity & Accuracy

Successful softball pitching isnt just about arm-strength, the lower-half of a young fastpitch hurler can make a huge difference to a pitchers effectivenes

Softball Lineup Strategies for Coaches: Maximize Team Performance

If youre new to coaching, creating a softball hitting lineup that gets everybody involved--and also gives you a chance to win--can be a challenge. Here a

Mastering Fly Ball Catching: A Guide for Youth Baseball Coaches

Catching a fly ball is one of the most difficult skills for a young player to learn. This is mainly because of a childs underdeveloped hand-eye coordinat

Softball: Rules, Equipment, and How to Play

Master Softball Throwing: 7 Steps to Improved Mechanics

Players not throwing correctly? Teach your squad the proper way to throw a softball with this series of pre-game isolation drills. Throw No. 1: Indian Sty

Sports Camps & Clinics: A Guide to College Recruitment

25 years ago sports camps were little more than summer diversions for kids who had too much sugar. Today, they represent not only a huge part of the you

Mastering Second Base Defense: A Catcher's Guide

Stopping your opponents running game can be a pivotal advantage, especially in close games. Unfortunately, many catchers lack good form because coaches d

Fun & Easy Softball Games for Kids: Build Skills & Confidence

These softball drills teach kids the basics—hitting, running, throwing, and catching—in fun, simple ways that beginners will understand and e

Fastpitch Jumping Drills: Enhance Speed & Agility

Increase your squads speed and quickness--and break up the monotony of practice--with these fastpitch jumping drills. Vertical Leap Drills: Equipment req

Master Softball Hitting: 7 Essential Fundamentals for Power & Accuracy

Hitting a softball is not easy if you dont have the right fundamentals nailed down. Coaches emphasize correct softball hitting fundamentals because they

Tairia Flowers: The One-Lens Power Hitter Leading USA National Team

Tairia Flowers may be the only professional athlete who wears one single contact lens. She might also be the next big slugger for the USA National Team. H

Mastering Contact: A Hitter's Guide to Consistent Hits

I am certain, by now, all of you have seen a picture of a homerun hitter, like Albert Pujols, mash one of his towering home runs. But have you really see

Enhance Softball Vision: 2 Drills for Improved Performance

In softball, vision refers to more than just eye sight. Vision involves the ability to accurately perceive factors such as motion, location and rotation