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128 pages in paperback, perfect bound book
Plus a CD with 200+ tools |
Why reinvent the wheel? Here are over 200+ forms, charts, handouts & drills that every coach uses and needs...all easy to customize for your team.
The must-have guide for anyone involved in:
Planning
Organizing
Starting or coaching any level softball team
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Includes bonus CD
Stock # BK18
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A Softball Coaches Tool Kit is a collection of ideas, practice plans, forms, drills, approaches, contests and communication methods developed by Pete Sprenkle during his 30+ years of coaching girls fastpitch softball. Easy to read and well organized, the Tool Kit covers everything a coach needs, from getting a team started to year-end evaluations.
The book is divided into 5 major sections:
Getting The Team Started
Running The Team
Communication, Development, Motivation
Assessments and Evaluations
Team Handbook
The material in the Took Kit will help softball coaches become Confident, Organized & Prepared.
Besides creative drills and coaching strategies, the Tool Kit includes a team handbook for your players that covers general softball information, baserunning details, offensive and defensive signals, and the defensive plays that can be used during the season.
Regardless of your level of coaching experience, this book will provide you with tools that can be easily and quickly used!
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"A Softball Coaches Tool Kit is the lifesaver to the beginner and a useful addition to the softball expert. This book is not only a guide to successful coaching, but it also offers all of the techniques and handout formats on a CD."
- Michelle Wakeman, Junior Editor at Softball Magazine
Free Bonus Gift With Book Purchase
Tool Kit CD
Each book comes with a CD on which 200+ of the tools are contained. Each tool on the CD is identified in the book with a CD icon at the bottom of the page. The file name is next to the CD icon, and the tools can be viewed using Microsoft Word or Lotus Word Pro. The CD has drills, information sheets, motivational items, forms, handouts and a complete handbook. All of these items can be quickly personalized for your softball team and then printed out. The CD will save you countless hours of preparation time!
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Coaches Tool Kit Book Breakdown
A Softball Coaches Tool Kit is intended to be just that, a tool kit with many uses for anyone involved in planning, organizing, starting or coaching a softball team. There are many tools, such as forms, self assessments, motivational material, practice organizers, a softball exam for your team, and others which you can take directly from the book and use immediately. |
Section 1: Getting The Team Started
Pages 1-27
Season Overview
Decision Making
A Coaching Philosophy
Coaching Principles
A Coaching Policy
Success Factors
Finances
Team Guidelines
Team Rules
Coach/Player Commitments
Coach/Parents Commitments
Medical Treatment Permit
Waiver
Team Driver Information
Chaperone Duties
Volunteers
Equipment
Uniforms
Section 2: Running The Team
Pages 29-99
Practice
Practice Guidelines
Field Safety Review
Indoor Practice
Pitching Practice
Pitching Drills
Pitching Data
Contests
Outdoor Defense Practice Organization 1
Outdoor Defense Practice Organization 2
Outdoor Defense Practice Organization 3
Defense - Skills and Plays
A Simulated Game
Outdoor Offense Practice Organization
Drills
Tips on Playing the Outfield
An Outfield Clinic
Pre Season Line Up
Projected Line Up Form
Score Card
Line Up Card
Team Trips
Team Lunch Shopping List
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Section 3: Communication, Development, Motivation
Pages 100-163
Team News
Ten Steps to Brighten Your Life
Team Schedule
Introductions
Strategy Session
Development of the Coach
Games the Team Can Play
Softball Olympics
Fungo Forceback
Outfield Duck
Motivational Message Board
Sample Motivation Board Messages
Thoughts for the Week
Objectives
What Kind of Players Are We Looking For?
Team Goals
Player Responsibilities
Player Responsibilities and Team Commitments
Pre-Competition Plan
What Champions Do
The Making of a Champion
What are the "R's" and How Can They Help Me?
Players Balance Sheet
TEAM
TEAMWORK
Some Things to Consider
Some Valuable Thoughts
Points to Ponder
Words of Wisdom
Ideas and Thoughts from Around the Bases
Recognition
Section 4: Assessments and Evaluations
Pages 165-182
Scouting
Self Assessments
Softball Exam
Season Evaluation
Section 5: Team Handbook
Pages 184-223
Ready to be copied and distributed to players and coaches with slight modifications
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What Others Have to Say About the Softball Tool Kit:
"At first I though it would be too much for a recreational coach, but I was totally wrong. Those coaches who use the Softball Coaches Tool Kit are better organized, run smarter practices and have players who are having more fun."
Joe Garmatz, Wheat Ridge (CO) Girls' Softball Association
"If you are a serious coach, or a weekend assistant for your daughter's team, A Softball Coaches Tool Kit is a must read."
Softball West Magazine
“A Softball Coaches Tool Kit is an invaluable tool for any softball coach at any age level. From the rookie coach to the veteran, there is something for everyone to use. I would highly recommend every coach to get a copy of this great reference.”
Jay Miller, Mississippi State University
"Loads of info that just has to be useful to anyone wanting to coach. Everything is covered ... and then some. This is an excellent book which cannot help but benefit those who are willing to learn."
Dick Smith, University of St. Francis (IL)
"I have been coaching for 15 years for competitive traveling teams and a High School team and finished this book wiser and armed with new ideas. In the 20 plus clinics I have attended, I have never seen most of the drills, and when I tried them with my team, they loved them and learned something. This is a book every coach should invest in."
Larry Becker, Wasson High School
"This book is a MUST for anyone managing or coaching a girl's softball team. Using these "Best Practices" will help you, the players, and their families appreciate and enjoy their team experience."
Ron Hennessey, Texas Xtreme - 14U USSSA National Champions
"The CD with all the motivational material, forms, and a complete players handbook is a BIG bonus! By changing a few words my team has a complete player handbook in a couple of hours that would take weeks to put together."
Larry Antley, North Texas Bees
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pete Sprenkle has been active in coaching girls softball for over 30+ years, including five seasons at the high school level (1998-2002).
He has coached 12U through 18U - winning over 1,200 games - and his teams have won eight state and four regional championships in Colorado, where Pete founded the Boulder Valley Girls Softball Association in 1978. Since then he has been the organizer of many softball skills clinics, summer camps and coaches clinics.
Pete is a 1957 graduate of the University of Miami and retired in 1992 after working for 35 years with IBM. He now devotes much of his time to youth softball and baseball in his hometown of Boulder.
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