Size Matters
Softball is my passion and has been since the first dayI could throw a ball. I've played many other sports, but softball has always come out on top.My love for this sport has gotten me throughseven years of recreationalleagues, three failed attempts on making the middle school team, and 2012. This was the year Imet the man that influenced my softball career the most, the new high school coach,Matthew Wilhite.
My first two years on the team were quick because of the dass of 2013 which was a dass
made of eight players that got majority of the playing time. It was the following year, my third year, that caused the upset. This is the year we lost that starting lineup of eight seniors. They had started for as long as most of us had been on the team.So,when it came practice time, no one knew what to do without them thereleading stretchinglines, or being the first ones up for infield. Many people doubted the team's chance for success after this year but,coach Wilhite had a plan.
He told us practices were going to start being a little different, andindeed they were. We started doing little things that we hadn't focused on in years. We started doing fielding drills with tennis balls, standing on balanceboards …show more content…
We had shownsomething that coach Wilhite was waiting to see,we began to progress as players individually. We never enjoyed spending 3()..45 minutes out of our two-hour-practices doing fundamentals that we had learn in the recreationalleague, but we did enjoy seeing people get better, we enjoyed seeing the change.Iplayed for coach Wilhite for five years and I learned more in my last two years with him thanI did in my whole 12-year career as a softballplayer. So, yesI do believe in the "little things",not the giving flowers to your lover type of little things, but the reallittle things, the fundamentals.If you get the fundamentals downthe level of
Softball is my passion and has been since the first dayI could throw a ball. I've played many other sports, but softball has always come out on top.My love for this sport has gotten me throughseven years of recreationalleagues, three failed attempts on making the middle school team, and 2012. This was the year Imet the man that influenced my softball career the most, the new high school coach,Matthew Wilhite.
My first two years on the team were quick because of the dass of 2013 which was a dass
made of eight players that got majority of the playing time. It was the following year, my third year, that caused the upset. This is the year we lost that starting lineup of eight seniors. They had started for as long as most of us had been on the team.So,when it came practice time, no one knew what to do without them thereleading stretchinglines, or being the first ones up for infield. Many people doubted the team's chance for success after this year but,coach Wilhite had a plan.
He told us practices were going to start being a little different, andindeed they were. We started doing little things that we hadn't focused on in years. We started doing fielding drills with tennis balls, standing on balanceboards …show more content…
We had shownsomething that coach Wilhite was waiting to see,we began to progress as players individually. We never enjoyed spending 3()..45 minutes out of our two-hour-practices doing fundamentals that we had learn in the recreationalleague, but we did enjoy seeing people get better, we enjoyed seeing the change.Iplayed for coach Wilhite for five years and I learned more in my last two years with him thanI did in my whole 12-year career as a softballplayer. So, yesI do believe in the "little things",not the giving flowers to your lover type of little things, but the reallittle things, the fundamentals.If you get the fundamentals downthe level of