Crowdsourcing ideas for a Softball Club for Junior High Students

CoachJD · Sep 11, 2017

JAD said:
The first thing I would do is line them up across from one another and have them throw some underhanded pitches back and forth. You need to identify a couple of pitchers as early as possible and try to get them started on some type of pitching routine. You could have the greatest HS team in the country, but without a pitcher you will never be competitive.

This won't be the *first* thing I do since there's a good chance some of them have never even tried to catch a ball before, but it will be one of the first for sure.

Should I give any kind of instruction or just say "throw underhand" and then grab the ones who look to have natural ability?

JAD · Sep 11, 2017

CoachJD said:
This won't be the *first* thing I do since there's a good chance some of them have never even tried to catch a ball before, but it will be one of the first for sure.

Should I give any kind of instruction or just say "throw underhand" and then grab the ones who look to have natural ability?

Try to pair up the girls by ability and if it looks like some of them might get hurt trying to catch a real softball get some softie softballs. If that is still too hard, trying rolling up some tube socks to the approximate size of a softball or look for some nerf balls that are close to the right size. Look for natural ability, but at the level you are at encourage everyone to learn how to pitch and if you are lucky one or two will pan out.

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