- Mar 31, 2009
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I am the pitching and catching coach for our varsity high school softball team. My younger sister is the pitcher and I have worked with her since last year when she wanted to start pitching. As a freshmen, she was the fastest in the league and had good movement on her pitches but had a lack of control. It was either strike outs or walks. This year as a sophmore, she has more speed and control but less movement. She wants to just throw as fast as she can by the batters because it worked last year but I've told her speed means nothing if there isn't movement. I want her to slow down and work on movement rather than speed.
As her pitching coach, I try to educate myself as much as possible about pitching with doing research and talking with other pitching coaches. She currently goes to Doug Gillis and last year she was told that she has the potential to be a D1 pitcher. The problem is that she wants to play college ball but she doesn't want to put the practice time in for it. She is our only pitcher so she throws 2 double headers, which is 4 games a week.
She started off good this season but now is going downhill fast. As her coach, I try to tell her what she is doing wrong and how to correct it but she says she isn't doing it (what I tell her she is doing wrong). Than she gets mad at me for being negative all the time when I am just trying to correct her. How do I try and coach her when she just makes mistakes and doesn't even know what she is doing or throwing? I know she can play college ball and really believe she can play at a high level but she has all the talent in the world but doesn't want to practice.
As her pitching coach, I try to educate myself as much as possible about pitching with doing research and talking with other pitching coaches. She currently goes to Doug Gillis and last year she was told that she has the potential to be a D1 pitcher. The problem is that she wants to play college ball but she doesn't want to put the practice time in for it. She is our only pitcher so she throws 2 double headers, which is 4 games a week.
She started off good this season but now is going downhill fast. As her coach, I try to tell her what she is doing wrong and how to correct it but she says she isn't doing it (what I tell her she is doing wrong). Than she gets mad at me for being negative all the time when I am just trying to correct her. How do I try and coach her when she just makes mistakes and doesn't even know what she is doing or throwing? I know she can play college ball and really believe she can play at a high level but she has all the talent in the world but doesn't want to practice.