Moody Library and Student Athletes: Softball

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Summary: Part of the well-received "Successfully" series, this complete resource for coaches provides direction on communicating with players, evaluating their performance, planning for practices and for a season, and teaching skills. Includes 126 hitting, fielding, base-running, and pitching drills. 130 photos. Size D. 240 pp. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This is a netLibrary E-book.

Summary: Covers the basics, throwing different pitches, mental preparation, physical preparation (including off-season workouts), drills, and much more.

NOTE: This is a netLibrary E-book.

Summary: An excellent resource on how hitting fundamentals, strategies, and mental factors should be addressed to maximize a hitter's performance at the plate. Covers the art and science of hitting, hitting fundamentals from bottom to top, common errors, making changes (training the hitter, drills, Q&A), the young hitter, the mind game, angle bunting off the pivot, teaching sprinting, baserunning (drills, Q&A), stealing bases, and sliding. Also covers offensive strategy. Includes nearly 100 clear photographs to make learning and implementing this information fast and easy.

Summary: Softball: Steps to Success is excellent as either a course text or a self-instruction guide. Either way, this unique progression of skills will help players get started quickly, make steady progress, and proceed at their own pace. In this book, 25 steps (chapters) explain why each concept or skill is important, identify keys to correct technique, help players correct common errors, explain how to practise each skill in realistic ways, list specific performance goals for each drill, and provide checklists for evaluating proper technique. Teachers and coaches need both the participant's guide and the companion teacher's guide to teach effectively. Teaching Softball: Steps to Success follows the same skill progressions as the participant's book and features management and safety guidelines, rating charts for identifying players' skill levels, 104 drills to fit various skill levels, teaching cues to maximize learning, suggestions for identifying and correcting errors, and a complete test hank of written questions.