Reminded whats important for a 6U coach!

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May 4, 2014
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That's awesome!

When I saw the topic I was half expecting to see a post about a competetive "A" level travel 6U team :)

Haha! I can see the post now.. "What should I do.. stay with the 6U rec team and the helmet stickers and ice cream trips or go with the more competitive travel team that has graduated to facepaint and temporary My Little Pony Tattoos!"
 
Oct 22, 2009
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When I first started coaching it was boys. The first girl team I coached with some friends of mine that put together a 14u team. My own DD was 5 at the time happy as could be playing T-ball with the boys.

The next year the league was able to put a few more girls teams together and I decided to move my DD to the girls and coached her 7u Pixie team.
Big jump from 14u-7u! I remember my first practice I took a roll of masking tape and markers and took the girls around each base and taping the inside corner of the base and telling them what each base was called. As I did this I gave them the markers and had them draw bugs on the corners. Then a fat juicy one in the middle of home plate. They had so much fun.
Then I taught them to run the bases and stomp those bugs on the corners of the bases.
I then stood back and let them run those bases till they were exhausted!
 
Apr 16, 2010
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I can't wait for my second go around in 6u. Number two is disappointed because at 4 she has to wait another year to start. She wants to be like her sister and play ball. She has her glove that goes to every practice of her sisters and she will "warm up" with the team and run bases. Each week at hitting lessons she patiently waits for her "turn" to hit. I love seeing the smile on her face during her "lesson".

With the oldest I see the joy of winning and competing with the girls who have became her closest friends. The little one just wants to have fun. She will be thrilled just walking on the field with her own team. She will probably be singing a Disney song or dancing but if she has a blast I could care less.
 
Jun 11, 2013
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It brings back memories to think of those days.

I was talking to my DD's coach from 8U the other day. I didn't coach the first year, but he had 11 players. This last fall 10 of the 11 players were still playing softball (12 and 13 year olds). To me that's the measure of success for a youth coach.
 
Oct 22, 2009
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It brings back memories to think of those days.

I was talking to my DD's coach from 8U the other day. I didn't coach the first year, but he had 11 players. This last fall 10 of the 11 players were still playing softball (12 and 13 year olds). To me that's the measure of success for a youth coach.

I used to be a board member when both my DS and DD were playing league.
That was the #1 question we always asked when assigning who would coach. "How many returns did they have come back".

One year I was assigned the 14u division and had a coach that would get his hardest throwers to throw at the weakest players to try and get them to quit.
 
Aug 29, 2011
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I used to be a board member when both my DS and DD were playing league.
That was the #1 question we always asked when assigning who would coach. "How many returns did they have come back".

One year I was assigned the 14u division and had a coach that would get his hardest throwers to throw at the weakest players to try and get them to quit.
Hopefully that coach was NEVER allowed back to coach again in that league.
 

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