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    Just a rant

    The most rewarding thing to me as a coach is when your children, past players, younger mentors, continue coaching, taking your best attributes and adding to them, continuing to learn and make the next generation better and pass it forward, I’m old school, some coach maybe changed your life for...
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    Coaches gravitate towards

    Ive told teams up front, I have favorites, if you slide, dive, run out ground balls, pop ups, give effort, take warmups seriously, ask questions, you are probably one of my favorites, I like questions, every drill we work on has a purpose, I cringe when a coach answers a question with because I...
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    What's more valuable, practices or games?

    I do believe some runners are more aggressive than others, but coaching does make a hugh difference, DD1 did track/cross country in High school, her coaches alway let her know everytime she got caught on the bases that it was her fault. To this day she is still base to base. DD2 was always...
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    Group question, help

    Have seen this drill using duct tape, folding the middle together and leaving enough ends to stick. How is her stride, it would seem if the stride was long, it would be difficult to be that far from the body. Only other suggestion is to concentrate on keeping the ball facing third as long as...
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    New England Raptors Tryouts Southern NH

    The New England Raptors will be holding 18u tryouts 7/27 and 8/1, 6pm-8pm at the PARC (51 Old County Rd Plaistow NH). raptorssoftball@outlook.com
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    Note to College Freshman Parents

    I played D2 many many years ago. Really believe I made the team because I went to pitchers and catchers, when you have 4 pitchers and 2-3 catchers its helpful to have an extra player that is willing to catch. Every year I received a little more playing time, but I enjoyed working with the...
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    Trick Play to end Florida 7a State Championship

    By jumping, pertending to miss a non thrown ball, similar to applying a fake tag without the ball, Obstruction, runner gets the next base?
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    School ball and not playing for attending a funeral

    Could it be a privacy issue, If the policy is missing practice = not playing 1 game, If you play the player, can you disclose why the exception. Is coach playing favorites, Sally missed practice why is Mary who also missed practice starting/playing? Parents/players not in the know may...
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    Gameday pitcher

    I would agree in college that most teams would know in advance who starts game 1. as it is usually the ace, who you can being back later in game #2 if the #2 gets into trouble and the game is close. I can see no decision being made if the staff is weak , not consistant and you need to see them...
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    New England Raptors open tryout Southern NH

    The 16U New England Raptors are looking to add a Pitcher and a Utility/position player. Open tryout will be Thursday 8/12 6pm-8pm, at the PARC in Plaistow NH (51 Old County Road). raptorssoftball@outlook.com
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    Travel uniform for high school tryouts?

    Our Org. puts our players last name on all practrice tees and Jerseys, Looking at the poll I'm in the minority, but I know of a middle school coach who had 70 players tryout and after cuts ask where player X was, she stepped forward, and was not the player she thought she was. Coach just...
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    Coming full circle!

    Trying to remember back that far :) We started with some foam softballs that had some weight for pop ups , nose to knuckle drills , throwing progressions to net or coaches to start, one of the local colleges gave some throwing instruction teaching young players to make a smile while going back...
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    *POLL* 18u everybody plays

    Seems pretty normal, our 18s play everyone in showcases, if a college coach is there to watch a player, they play the whole game. If not pitchers positional players rotate evenly
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    The New England Raptors out of southern NH are looking for a couple of 14U players, for a developmental team.

    Please contact Nick at raptorssoftball@outlook.com if interested. Head Coach is not a parent coach. Plenty of innings available. Affordable tutition. Website is newenglandraptorssoftball.com
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