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What worked while coaching the boys is definitely not going to work with the girls.
I think that every person that wants to coach needs to take courses in the learning process. What works at making someone learn and what definitely doesn't work. How girls learn and how boys learn.
Just because you have played the game, or went to a coaches clinic and learned a bunch of skill drills, or know the rules does not make you a good coach. You have to know how to teach and how to motivate. You have to coach a girl to skill level, then push her onto the next level, and then push her to the next. And when you don't know what that next level is, find her someone to push her to that level.
That last part is where a lot of our travel softball coaches are failing. They don't want to give up that player.
I think that every person that wants to coach needs to take courses in the learning process. What works at making someone learn and what definitely doesn't work. How girls learn and how boys learn.
Just because you have played the game, or went to a coaches clinic and learned a bunch of skill drills, or know the rules does not make you a good coach. You have to know how to teach and how to motivate. You have to coach a girl to skill level, then push her onto the next level, and then push her to the next. And when you don't know what that next level is, find her someone to push her to that level.
That last part is where a lot of our travel softball coaches are failing. They don't want to give up that player.