Week 1 of Practice is Complete

The first week of practice for the JV team is now over. This past week I was able to evaluate the talent we'll have for the season. We have only two players that have returned from last years JV team. The rest were on the Freshman team last year and we also have a couple of current freshman playing for us. Our first game is coming up on Wednesday the 24th against Dobson High School at home. With our first game coming up so quickly, we have had a lot of information to cover over this past week. The other JV coach and I decided to stick to the basics for now. We worked on hitting pretty intensely while covering basic situations on defense like the double play and who will take the cut-off throw from our outfielders. For the most part, every one of our players looked really good this week in practice. We have 16 girls on our team which means that not everyone is going to get to play. The other coach and I have made it very clear to the girls that they need to come to practice everyday with a positive attitude and the will to work hard giving the team 110%. Any day that a player slacks off in practice is the day someone else will work harder than them and earn a starting position for games. While evalutating our talent on the team I've been running scenarios in my head of who might start because they have great defensive skills or because they have a strong bat. Just about everyone on our team can hit. I feel pretty confident that I can put together a starting line up with all 9 players averaging over .300 throughout the season. Last Thursday, I wrote out on a piece of paper the who I believe are our top 9 players. Coincidentally so did the other coach and we had the exact same starting 9 players with a couple of girls hitting in a different order. It was nice to know that the other coach and I are on the same page with who we want to play. It will be interesting to see how our first game plays out. I hope that our starting nine can produce results like we expect them too. If they don't, then one of the other 7 girls on the bench will be given the opportunity to step up and get the job done. I'll let you all know how our first game goes by the end of next week! Have a great week everyone! Thanks!