Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Everything Fastpitch is a podcast hosted by Coach Tory Acheson and Coach Don McKinlay. Tory and Don are former college coaches that are now full time instructors and travel ball coaches. Since retiring form active collegiate coaching they have committed themselves to providing educational materials to the fastpitch community. This podcast is one of the resources they are providing. Their website has 500+ blog posts and they have a YouTube channel. All of these cover fastpitch softball from coaching and training beginner athletes up through college athletes. It is a great resource for players, parents and coaches. Whether it be training tips, mental aspects, coaching methods, recruiting etc. it is all covered, hence the name Everything Fastpitch.
Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Amazing Plays are practiced / Team Chemistry / Coaches being prepared for stuff going wrong
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Tory Acheson & Don McKinlay
This weeks lineup:
- Warm up Segment
- Listener Question: My daughter is a super freshman and her coach never gives her a chance to play. During the recruiting process she was told she would be a starter. Do you have any advice? And should she transfer? (@12:20)
- Here is a link to an article describing what the coaches were talking about.
- Some Quotes from the article:
- “Coming in I knew I had to compete,” Brito said. “We’re at a collegiate level now that everybody is good. Coming in I didn’t really have any goals such as that, but I said to myself compete every day, give everything I’ve got every practice and every day. Competing constantly.”
- “She brings a great energy to our team and we have seen it in practice,” center fielder Haley Cruse said.
- “I think my hard work and dedicating myself a lot to getting better every day has helped me over the years and I’ve tried to carry that into college and do the best that I can each game and put everything out there,” Brito said. “I want to go in there and be aggressive and also make that at-bat as tough as possible on the pitcher, that’s challenging them. Just try to pass the bat to my teammates and get something going
- Paige's Power Play (@25:30)
- Amazing Plays are practiced and are different at every level. (@32:14)
- Team Chemistry (@45:13)
- Coaches being prepared for all the stuff that can go wrong. (@56.34)