Coach the coaches

Mocoso said:

My thoughts:
1. If the intent is to teach rec ball coaches and increase their skills be sure there is no "arrogance" associated with the outreach
2. Fully agree coaches should be coached be it from outside organizations or from within.
and Ill get on my soap box:
1. Every coach that uses the "I played XYZ years in ABC college/school etc" as a way to justify their skills is usually masking their own insecurity or letting their unfounded arrogance come through.

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1. Totally agree
2. I think we need it!
3. I started that way. Now I say, "I played baseball, but this is not baseball!" I tell my parents that I am still learning a lot about this game every day, every practice, every game, and that I am trying to give what I learn to the girls.

How does this look? I'm seriously considering it for $80, since I live 3 hours driving from Pittsburg.

UPMC Sports Medicine presents the | Pennsylvania Baseball & Softball Coaches Clinic

BuckeyeGuy said:

How does this look? I'm seriously considering it for $80, since I live 3 hours driving from Pittsburg.

UPMC Sports Medicine presents the | Pennsylvania Baseball & Softball Coaches Clinic

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IMO it is worth the drive and the $80 for Tschida alone. Do it.

I've been to this one a few times. They have brought in speakers/clinicians such as the following:

Sue Enquist, Cindy Bristow, Heather Tarr, Bill Hillhouse and Howard Kobata.

All Sports School

Axe said:

Don't do this without a good session on how to run efficient and organized practices. Rec coaches have very limited practice time and they can't afford to waste it.

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As part of our coaches session we provide a practice plan and philosophy and several practice plans they can follow and then this is where our mentor program comes in. . We have 6 coaches who are available to run a practice/help run a practice if asked and are also tasked with watching and monitoring team practices and can step in if we see anyone not running good practice (e.g. no 1 player bats, everyone fields and rotate boring practices).

You have to have full commitment from everyone involved. A level of consistency in teaching the same things and philosophy, running the same sort of skill drills, etc - and most importantly the authority to remove coaches who don't want to be part of the big picture.

marriard said:

You have to have full commitment from everyone involved. A level of consistency in teaching the same things and philosophy, running the same sort of skill drills, etc - and most importantly the authority to remove coaches who don't want to be part of the big picture.

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I'd love to get to that level of buy-in! I think at this point I'll be happy just to get my league commish to go for anything. I'm hopeful, he coached TB for a long time and I think he'd be happy with better coaching in the league.

BuckeyeGuy said:

How does this look? I'm seriously considering it for $80, since I live 3 hours driving from Pittsburg.

UPMC Sports Medicine presents the | Pennsylvania Baseball & Softball Coaches Clinic

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I'd recommend this one definitely - new speakers every year. If you are willing to invest a little more time and money check out Be the Best Clinic in Cherry Hill, NJ. Google it.

Out in Left Field said:

There is NO separate philosophy for coaching girls and boys...

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It appears that Margie Wright disagrees:

Margie Wright’s 2015 Topics for the Pennsylvania Baseball & Softball Coaches Clinic:

Strategies for Defending the Short Game
Setting Up Hitters
Philosophy of Coaching Girls
Drills Session: Pitching Drills to Reinforce Proper Mechanics
Drills Session: Do’s and Don’ts of Recruiting

Source: UPMC Sports Medicine presents the | 2015 Speaker Bios – Softball

I read an interview with Anson Dorrance, the great North Carolina women's soccer coach, a few years back and he talked quite a bit about how he had to adapt to coaching women because he found it to be quite a bit different than coaching men.

It was not a serious comment. Just more troll fodder.