Hello,
Our young lady has been playing for almost 3 years and is almost done with her first comp team (14U). She really wants to play at the HS and is interested in college ball as she likes the comradery and chemistry that builds with being on the same team. She is a smart hitter, coach currently has her 6th, who is very fast on base. She has been working with a hitting coach to work on aiming for the top of the ball to prevent her popping up so often.
The question is how can I help her outside of practice and hitting instruction? At practice they usually just have the pitchers pitch to the ladies and none of them have the velocity she will see in HS and 16U +. We have gone to batting cages, but she fouls a lot off to the right and gets peeved.
Her main goal this season is engaging her lower half more readily and not being all hands (as she is a slighter framed young lady) to use as much power as possible. She usually hits singles or doubles. She has a tendency to do a little front foot slide action and sometimes does two twists of her back leg and either hits beauties over second or nicks the top and it dribbles to the infield. I just want her to be as confident in her abilities and believe in herself when she sees faster pitchers.
Our young lady has been playing for almost 3 years and is almost done with her first comp team (14U). She really wants to play at the HS and is interested in college ball as she likes the comradery and chemistry that builds with being on the same team. She is a smart hitter, coach currently has her 6th, who is very fast on base. She has been working with a hitting coach to work on aiming for the top of the ball to prevent her popping up so often.
The question is how can I help her outside of practice and hitting instruction? At practice they usually just have the pitchers pitch to the ladies and none of them have the velocity she will see in HS and 16U +. We have gone to batting cages, but she fouls a lot off to the right and gets peeved.
Her main goal this season is engaging her lower half more readily and not being all hands (as she is a slighter framed young lady) to use as much power as possible. She usually hits singles or doubles. She has a tendency to do a little front foot slide action and sometimes does two twists of her back leg and either hits beauties over second or nicks the top and it dribbles to the infield. I just want her to be as confident in her abilities and believe in herself when she sees faster pitchers.