Tips on how to make the softball team?

Question

I really wanna try out for my schools's softball team.
I have always loved baseball and I get really good if I practice.
Its just, I want tips on how to be good at softball and how to make the team.
Help me!!

Tryouts arent until spring I know that but I wanna get a good start on practicing!

Answer 1

Practice

Answer 2

I played some High School baseball and when I started out in Little League I was terrible. But my friends played a lot after school so I than played every day. Eventually I had the highest Batting average in an after school softball league. And played some High School baseball. The point is the more you play the better you will get. Find a friend who will work on your game with you this winter, you'll do great!

Answer 3

First thing is to talk to the coach. Tell them you want to tryout in the spring and find out if they have an offseason conditioning program. Most high schools have one for ball teams. Our high school starts conditioning in January.

If they have one - USE IT! Fair warning though, it's usually very early before school. If they don't have one, plan your own.

There are lots of websites on the net for information on sport specific training. I've only looked for baseball information, but that will also work for softball. I've left you a link for an excellent website whose information will most certainly work for you.

Good Luck and I hope you make the team!!

Answer 4

Practice throwing a lot..buy a nice sized glove, and work on ur hitting...in softball do not take a baseball swing..u do not have enough time to get around..try slapping the ball instead

Answer 5

practice and condition, you can make a better impression on the coach if you can handle practice and are willing to learn. if you wanna get better you can hire a hitting instructor or practice with people you know and don't be afraid to ask questions on how to be better. you can always get better no matter how good you are.

Answer 6

I play on a co-ed team, put your females at catcher and rover, unless they are one of the stronger players then put them where they are best at. You also may want to have a female pitch. If you are pitching to power hitters pitch low and outside, also take the turns anytime you run to a base, force the team to throw the ball and make mistakes. run aggressively. your outfield should play back because it is easier to run in then run back for a ball. Most importantly have fun!!!!

Answer 7

you gotta have heart.Work hard and hall *** no matter what the coaches trow at you make she you get along with all your teammates and you make a good impression on the coaches make sure you have a positive attitude no matter what you have to do.

Answer 8

Find you a partner, or someone who can help you to practice hitting, throwing, catching, run to build your endurance. You might be able to find a batting cage so that you can use that, and won't have to chase the balls, and get more time to spend looking at the ball. If you have a partner, they can help you and you can help them. If you know someone who plays, ask them to work out with you, to help teach you, and to help. It's good when you have someone who is better than you to play catch with. Have a good work ethic.

"TEAM PLAYER"---If you want to be a "team" then have a good attitude, do what ever a coach tells you. It' hard to have a good team if girls have an attitude, it divides the team, hard for a coach to teach "team sports" if there are attitudes. So if you do what you are told, that is being "coachable" and a lot of coaches look for "coachable players". The others just drag down the team, cause problems and divide team. You will be an asset on the team if you have a positive attitude.

ATTITUDE"- If you get on the team, and not get much playing time,,just keep a good attitude, while you are practicing, and be prepared and ready to play at anytime. When you are asked to go in, THEN , do your job as well as you can, and you may be suprised to see that you are asked to play more, and never know you may be replacing someone who is injured, doesn't do their job, or has has an attitude. I can tell you coaches do not accept players well who have attitudes. College scouts will take a player with less talent, if they see or hear that you have an attitude and the next girl has a better one.

GRADES----keep your grades up, coaches don't want to have to pull a girl off the team or be on discipline for her grades. It doesn't help the "team"... So get class work & homework done as soon as you can, so that it is not holding you back. When tryouts start, you will be busy, and not a lot of time to spend on homework, classwork as you normally do. Then if you make the team, it is even less time, w/games, travel, practice.

PARENTS--Ask them to support you, listen when you have something to say about it, where it is good or just complaining about either the girls or coaches. But listening does not always mean that you want them to attack any of the girls or the coach.
It means you just need to vent your feelings. Maybe they can see why the coach may say something differnent than the way you feel, and you can see a different side of things.

As a parent we don't want to see our kid hurting, so our nature is to take care of our child, so the first thing we may want approach the coach and tell them what we think, or to "attack" the coach verbally, but that is not the way to do it. It is ok, to talk to the coach, to be able to understand what, why and to answer your questions. (some coaches do not mind at all to be questioned)

If your parents support you, they will see what the coach means when they say you may have an attitude, or that you won't try , or won't listen to them, or you are hanging around w/a group of girls that are trouble makers, if they have sat back and watched practice to see what is going on. If they are not there, then they are just taking your word for it, and when you are the one that feels you are being hurt by coaches comments, sometimes things don't always "look" they way the "feel". Feelings are sometimes threatened, and we get a personal feeling and sometimes the "true" reason a coach may have said or done something and so we can't see that what was said or done is not a personal attack on us.
( I know some coaches have different ways of coaching that we may not agree with, nor understand, but they are the coach, and if we want to play if it's their rules, then there's not a lot that you can do, except talk it out w/them, go to the school officials, do wht they want, but trying to work it out is better than letting it burn inside and not understand or agree and then someone blows their top and a big fight happens. Just a simple little talk w/o attitudes, sometimes answers some questions and puts things to ease.

See if there is any travel ball teams that you can practice with, sometimes they need a player just to fill up the roster so they can play. Be honest with the coach that you have played baseball, and you want to play softball, see if he can help to show you somethings, or if they have any players you can work out with. See if there are any local sports programs that you can join to learn more about softball. Go to softball fields on the weekend to see games that are in progress, walk around and talk to coaches, players, and see what you can find out. Watch when they practice to see how the do things, go home and practice what you have learned. You never know you may find a team looking for a player too.

Doyle Baseball school also has a program for softball players, if you can find one in your area, they have inside cages, drills to do and you can learn something from them.

KEEP PRACTICING--have a good attitude-w/self control, be responsible, respectible, dependable, have a good work ethic, stay away from trouble makers, partiers, even if you are wanting a friend they can bring you down and you can get caught up in their life and you can loos your chance for a scholarship in the first year of play and not eve realize what is happening to you, that you have just gotten youself caught up in the "peer pressure of being a friend', at a cost to you and your reputation. I have seen it happen a lot over the last 15 or so years.

Sounds like you are really interested in playing and making an attempt now to make plans for it shows that you have some good morals and attitude towards some things in life, planning ahead is good, not waiting until it's time just before tryouts to start working on it is good too. No matter where you go take you a ball and a glove, never know when you can find a partner. Or even better, take two gloves, then someone (maybe parent, grandparent, aunt, unlcle, cousin, anyone) can do some play and catch w/you. Every little bit you do now, will show up later on and it will work, as long as you keep it up..

If you have any questions on how to do something or some drills you can do, if you email me, I will get either my daughter or husband have or are coaches to tell you somethings to do to help you too. Some ideas on actual techniques..

Good luck and didn't mean to write so much, but being around softball, 21 years, I have a lot to say about it, some of the girls, coaches, etc.

Practice, Practice, Practice...it may not make you the best, but it will make you better..

Answer 9

add me to ur messenger list [e-mail] and i will give u some tips! (I've played softball 4 4 years!

Answer 10

good 4 u...