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  1. lostbayou21

    14-U - What’s a good number?

    We are moving up from 12-u, and last season carried 10 regulars. USFA allows you to bat all your players so we did, unless we were in a title game or close to it. When we played ASA we went to the DP/Flex, but were concerned about an injury causing lineup issues. How many players does your team...
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    Tryout Evaluation Template

    Can someone send me or provide a link to a tryout player evaluation form? Apparently mine has gone off to Never Never Land. murphy.ed21@gmail.com
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    Tryout pointers, feel free to share

    PREPARING FOR TRYOUTS Pre-tryout: Brush up on your skills for at least a couple days leading up to the tryout. Take a friend, sibling, or parent and practice defense and throwing daily. You’ll also want to take some swings off the tee and in the batting cages. Make sure to practice bunts, too...
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    What's in your travel locker?

    We keep a rubbermaid container that has the following : first aid kit, hand warmers, blankets, gloves, extra ballglove, extra socks, tarp with fence clips, towels, extra sunglasses, bio freeze, sandwich bags, garbage bags, rain gear, sleeves, and hoodie. Stays in our vehicle and is often...
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    Our team hates early morning games.

    Help, looking for ways to energize our 12-U girls on those early morning contests. We truly look like the Walking Dead out there. If you're going to get us, that's your best shot!
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    Adjustable Batting Helmets

    Does anyone have experience with adjustable batting helmets? We're looking at outfitting our team with them. Easton and Adidas both offer but the reviews I read indicated the tightening mechanism fails early and often. Our 12-U team has girls with heads of all sizes, tiny to huge :D. Would love...
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    It's the off-season, what can I be doing to prepare for the upcoming season?

    I'm a long-time travel coach who's made a lot of mistakes along the way. Those mistakes however, were simply learning experiences that helped me understand better how the game is played and to understand that the game continues to evolve, and requires a lot of continuing education. When you're...
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    Things You Wish You Had Spent More Time On At Practice...

    Softball has a way of revealing your coaching flaws at the worst possible moment. And I've always believed if you're not giving lessons on the softball field you're probably getting them. There are two things that came up earlier in my coaching career that I realized I had not spent nearly...
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    Problems with Eroding Team Chemistry

    Our once-promising 12-U team is struggling right now, clearly frustrated. Our defensive lapses have increased, our hitting has slumped and we coaches are at a loss. We spend lots of time teaching the finer parts of the game but come game-time, we seem to be fragile emotionally. These emotions...
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    What Softball Association Do You Favor?

    We play a lot of USFA ball with that association in control of most of the tournament region in our neck of the woods here in North Louisiana. We have played a couple of USSSA tournaments and one ASA. I'd be interested to hear from others regarding the association they feel runs a better...
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    Swimming on Game Day

    What's your feeling about players swimming on game day? I've had parents tell me that "they'll only swim a little bit" or "they'll take a good nap after". As a coach, I say no based on how it affects my daughter but would like to hear perspectives from other coaches and parents alike.
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    Lefties in the Middle Infield

    12-U travel. One of our best players is our left-handed second baseman. Plays the position well. My question is, are we doing her a disservice by keeping her at that position, knowing that when she reaches high school it's unlikely she'll play at that position? On her middle school team she...
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    Tryout Registration Form

    Anyone have a nice tryout registration form that I can personalize? Tryouts coming up soon and I can't seem to find one online that's unlocked. Thanks!
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    Louisiana Blaze 00 and 98 Tryouts - Based in Northeast Louisiana

    Tryouts to be held in Monroe, LA (Saul Adler Sports Complex) on Saturday, August 4th. Players born in 2000 or 2001 will tryout beginning at 9am, those born in 1998 or 1999 will go about 11am. Competitive, well-structured organization with an emphasis on teaching and compatibility. Visit...
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    Coaches: What Coaching Traits Are The Most Important to Your Position?

    This is the companion thread to the one on-going in the Softball Parent forum, but from a coach's perspective. Coaches: Please place the following traits (listed randomly) in the order of importance to you. a) wins vs losses b) teaching ability c) structure/organization d) temperment e) people...
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    How A Parent Evaluates A Coach

    Put these traits (listed randomly) in the order of importance to you when analyzing a coach's ability: a) wins versus losses b) teaching ability c) knowledge of the game d) character/honesty e) motivational ability f) people skills g)organization/structure h)temperment i) other (please...
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    Well Coached or Over-Coached?

    On our competitive 12-U team we pride ourselves on being a "teaching" team and running a tight practice. However, as we got later into the season it seemed our girls lost enthusiasm and focus. In other words, we began to underachieve, at least to our expectations. After looking at all the...
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    Does Your Team Have a Boombox? If Not, Why? Favorite Tunes?

    Music during pre-game is something a lot of teams utilize to get their girls and fan base energized, but some teams absolutely don't believe in it. What does your team do, and if you have one, what are some of your favorite ballpark tunes?
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    What Condition Are Your Ballfields?

    We played in a State Tournament recently at a complex that had grass infields. The grass was relatively green but very uneven and it was apparent the dirt portion of the infields (Diamond Dust) had not seen water in a long, long time. Even though we haven't had measurable rain here in Louisiana...
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    Tryouts or Individual Workouts? Collect Uniforms?

    Now that the spring/summer season is ending, how will you prepare for the fall and 2013? Do you have tryouts, or do you prefer individual workouts? Do you have just one tryout or multiple opportunities? Do you collect all the uniforms? Looking for opinions to see what fits best for our operation...

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