This ^^^ reminds me of our last tournament. Blue came over to our dugout at the end of a big inning for our team, and said, "This is softball. You have a track team out here!" Our girls are runners. I would consider my DD to be average speed for her age. On this team, she's in the bottom 3 or 4.
The coach putting them through conditioning
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This ^^^ reminds me of our last tournament. Blue came over to our dugout at the end of a big inning for our team, and said, "This is softball. You have a track team out here!" Our girls are runners. I would consider my DD to be average speed for her age. On this team, she's in the bottom 3 or 4.
Speed is a great weapon in softball because of the shorter bases, and a wise man once said "speed does not slump"....
We had a blast this year in 18U as we had 7 slappers. Totally different dynamic with a lineup that had 3 slappers followed by 2-3 pure power hitters followed by more speed which allowed us to jump on teams from the start. We have never scored runs like we did this year.
The bear crawl is a part of our practice warm up, we'll do a dynamic warm up and stretch with high leg kicks down and crawls back.... However, its only about 50-60 feet.
