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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
Softball is now 4th ranked sport / State of umpiring crews / Work on weaknesses
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Tory Acheson & Don McKinlay
This Weeks Lineup:
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: My daughter struggled during her first big tournament, should I panic? (@9:50)
- Paige's Power Play (@14:53)
- Softball has moved up to the 4th ranked sport in college athletics. (@20:19)
- State of the umpiring crews. We have a serious shortage of umpires and coaches, tournament directors and parents have to get onboard with helping improve the situation. (@31:03)
- Coaches we have to do a better job on identifying our player's weaknesses and let them know specifically what they need to work on. If you have ever said that we can't hit slow pitchers, then you need to listen to this. (@42:54)
State of the umpiring crews. We have a serious shortage of umpires and coaches, tournament directors and parents have to get onboard with helping improve the situation.
Coaches we have to do a better job on identifying our player's weaknesses and let them know specifically what they need to work on. If you have ever said that we can't hit slow pitchers, then you need to listen to this.