Life is Hard TV

This all-star season has been interesting for sure and this blog post is a reality and ego check for all of us volunteer/parent coaches out there.

I’m a good coach, I really enjoy being with the girls helping them improve their game. But there is a limit and I fear I’ve reached it.

Just this year, I [...]

I just read that “Michael Jordan’s son retires from college basketball” and it got me thinking about motivation, drive, passion and commitment to your sport, craft and life. I think all too often as a parent of an athlete, we can’t see clearly through the haze at our own children who have their own passions [...]

I’m thrilled to blog today that yesterday, my U12 team won the town championship by beating a really great team 11-4 in the finals.

We almost didn’t make it, barely beating our semi-final opponents by scoring 3 runs on passed balls in the bottom of the 6th. Last night though, we played stellar defense and kept [...]

I put this photo of the amazing Danielle Lawrie at the top of this post because she represents “turning it up” in a big, big way. Her performance at the Women’s College World Series was nothing short of spectacular.

We’re more than halfway through our U12 softball season and the team has progressed nicely in many [...]

A few years ago, when my daughter was in U10, I started keep track of very basic stats for each game and compiling them in a spreadsheet. I kept just a few key things like walks, strikeouts, hits (real hits) and at bats. I calculated specific stats for strikeouts/ab and on base percentage to get [...]

Rachele Fico, a pitcher from a nearby town is practically a legend around CT. She’s dominated at every level of softball since she was a kid and is now on her way to play college softball at recently defeated LSU who lost 2 in a row to Arizona State to advance to the College World [...]

We’re 4 games into our U12 softball season and it’s been an interesting ride already. In our first game, we struck out 11 times and had 1 hit. Granted, we walked 15 times, but we swung at way too many bad pitches. Somehow, we managed to score 12 runs and we slunk away with a [...]

I wasn’t planning on writing this post, but during lunch, I was skimming the latest Time magazine issue, the “World’s Most Influential People” issue. Serena Williams, writing about Rafa Nadal pointed out what makes him so good.
I think it’s that he’s the hardest worker. The last one to leave the court, the first to arrive. [...]

If you missed the New York Time article today “When an 18-Year-Old Son Needs Elbow Surgery” and you have a son or daughter playing sports you should definitely take a moment to read this piece. What strikes me the idea that as parents, we can make mistakes even as we have good intentions.

I found myself [...]

Last night at practice I had the oddest feeling of deja vu. Before our first game, we tuned up a bit by working on cut off/relay plays and in particular, plays at the plate. I remember learning this myself at 11 or 12 years old and really struggling with it. I seem to remember being [...]