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This is the last and final Grievance! If you missed parts 1-3, see below! Grievance 1: Playing Time Grievance 2: The Competition Grievance 3: Teammates Grievance #4 – The Drive of My Teammate is Not There Uncontrollables: Your teammates’ drive; Your teammates’ attitude; Your teammates’ competitiveness Controllables: YOUR drive; YOUR attitude; YOUR competetiveness Yes, it’s hard when […]

(In case you missed the first 1 grievances, Grievance 1: Playing Time and Grievance 2: The Competition. ) Grievance 3: Teammates Uncontrollable: Who is on your team; Other players attitudes; Other players work ethic; Controllable: Being a good teammate; being a good leader; leading by example; not talking about people behind their back; putting the team first; being […]

In ANY situation we come up against in life, there are going to be things that we can control and things we can’t control.  It’s important to always take a step back in any situation, and understand which are which.  Limit the excuses and understand what YOU can do better to get the most out of […]

Around this time of year, I always receive a lot of different questions and grievances relating to the high school softball season.  Playing a sport for high school is a unique situation – you don’t get to pick your coaches, you don’t get to pick your teammates.  And on the other side of that – […]

What really is “normal”? “Normal” has a different picture or movie next to it for every single person out there – in sports, careers, relationship, etc. We all have different experiences, we were raised differently and we all have different perceptions. Who’s to say that MY version of “normal” is the correct version or your […]

I get asked about confidence…A LOT.  Mainly because confidence (no matter what your softball mechanics look like) is a HUGE key to an individual’s success on the field and in life. I might not know you, and I might not know your daughter, but what I know for absolute certain is that if she feels fully confident […]

THE most asked question I get is how many pitches and/or how many days a week should my daughter pitch? Sometimes I think parents just ask me this question so that their daughter can hear me say or read that I say 1000 pitches a week or 6 times a week. It’s like parents are […]

Allow me to introduce Chez Sievers to you! I must start out by saying, Chez is a Longhorn, but I absolutely love her anyway. Chez is one year older than I am, and I played against her from across the diamond for 3 years- me wearing maroon, Chez wearing burnt orange. I remember Chez – […]

I love everything about fastpitch pitching. It’s an art – physically and mentally. A very small percentage of people in this world can say that they have taken a stab at it, and even fewer can say that they ended their career as a pitcher and made it through the whole way. There is a […]