- Sep 3, 2013
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We are a 12U TB team and have our first practice of the new season coming up in 2 weeks
We have 5 returning 12U, 4 moving up from the 10U team (all of which i coached 2 years ago), 2 coming over from another good TB organization and one girl new to travel ball.
I'm trying to come up with some creative things to do from day one so that I will be able to measure who is progressing and at what pace, examples would be:
1. timing them home to home at first practice, then doing this every 6 weeks or so to see who is improving their base running
2. throwing speed via radar gun
3. ground balls to SS and clocking them from ball contact to glove to see who is improving their ball transfer, charging balls and making plays...
I'm looking for any other ideas you can come up with and also any suggestions for what you do in your very first practice.
My AC and I are very excited to get going with this team, lots of ideas pumping in our brains... Team mantra is HUSTLE and we are going to start with that on day one.
We have 5 returning 12U, 4 moving up from the 10U team (all of which i coached 2 years ago), 2 coming over from another good TB organization and one girl new to travel ball.
I'm trying to come up with some creative things to do from day one so that I will be able to measure who is progressing and at what pace, examples would be:
1. timing them home to home at first practice, then doing this every 6 weeks or so to see who is improving their base running
2. throwing speed via radar gun
3. ground balls to SS and clocking them from ball contact to glove to see who is improving their ball transfer, charging balls and making plays...
I'm looking for any other ideas you can come up with and also any suggestions for what you do in your very first practice.
My AC and I are very excited to get going with this team, lots of ideas pumping in our brains... Team mantra is HUSTLE and we are going to start with that on day one.