Fielding: Star drill

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FIELDING: STAR DRILL

My name is Kate Earnest and I play for Galloway High School. I attended a fastpitch camp this summer and one of the drills that we learned was the star drill for the outfielders.

The fielder stands about 20 yards away from the thrower. The fielder runs to the right and makes the catch, then drops the ball and hauls it over to the far left, makes the catch,drops the ball, then runs away from the thrower for the longball, catches it, drops it, and runs straight towards the thrower for the shallow ball and that's it.

 

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FIELDING: STAR DRILL GAME This is a drill that I think we all have used, it just slipped my mind when I was doing this site. Thanks to Scott Otto for bringing it to my attention!!

You get your infielder's at their position (except the pitcher). The ball starts at the catcher, she throws to the second baseman, she throws to the third baseman, she throws to the first baseman, she throws to the shortstop, and she throws back to the catcher. The whole time this is going on you have a runner run the bases. They leave at the same time as the catcher starts the cycle.

It starts out easy for the fielders because they tend to start in kinda close and creep in. I let them do that for a while, till it get to easy, then I make them start backing up. After they get a few steps in the grass the faster runners start making it close. (the runners like to see a dropped or missed ball)

This really helps on the infielder's learning to get rid of the ball quickly. I hope that it's helpful.

 

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I really like the star drill. There are several versions of it where you sprint to the back of the line you threw the ball to and you can get more than one ball going at the same time.

I put a little plug on other drills catagory (below) where the star drill and others are in a package of mine.

I have some drills in a free package on my site that should give you plenty of indoor and outdoor drills. There is an example of the size of the drills in the upgraded package.

In the upgrade you not only get larger flash files but you get a ton useful information, free computer programs (more coming), a few games, and lifetime upgrades (my lifetime).

When you go HERE you will see a small version of an upgraded flash file of what to do with ball 4 and you have a runner on 3rd.

Its small but you should be able to see a button on the right that will give you a slow motion version that has explanations coming in at the appropriate time. The left buttons will give you option1 and option2 for your defense.

Like in the drills in the upgrade, if the words go too fast you can pause or go forward and back one frame at a time with the middle buttons.

Have fun with the free version.