Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully

by Kathy J. Veroni

Book Overview

This guide for fastpitch softball coaches explains how to develop a philosophy, motivate players, and plan for the season. The author explains how to teach and improve player's performance in hitting, fielding, baserunning, pitching and offensive and defensive strategies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880115467
• ISBN13: 9780880115469
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Softball Book For Coaches of 12 & U and Up.

The book is a little more advanced than what I needed right now coaching 8 & U coach pitch softball, but it does a great job of showing you the direction your coaching should be going as the kids get older. That in turn has influenced how I teach these young girls. Many of the fine drills in this book are too advancd for my age group, but I was able to simplify them a little to make them easier for 7-8 year olds. If your coaching 6-10 year old kids and can only buy one book, this may not be the one. But it is a great book to have in your coaching library. The best I have seen, my kids just are not quite ready for it yet.

The Greatest Fundamental Softball Book on the Market

I've never read a book that had so many ideas in it for coaching, whether it was on the youth level or the college level of softball. This book is fundamentally sound and I recommend it to all who are coaching softball or who plan to in the future.

Best softball book

I've read most of the fast-pitch softball books on the market and this is by far the best. It is thorough, yet concise. It is equally useful for beginning coaches and advanced coaches. I especially like the Defensive Strategies chapter that details many game situations and defenses for those situations. This book also covers the gamut of coaching softball, from philosophy to organization to the game itself to post-season considerations.

Excellent source of information.

This is the most complete book for coaching fastpitch I have seen. The book is well laid out for easy reference. I purchased the book mainly to find ways to make practices funner and more effective but have found a wealth of information and ideas that will benefit our organization. If you can only by one book for coaching this is it!

A great source for any level coach.

I just recently purchased Kathy Veroni's book to help instruct my 10 year old in fastpitch. I was never taught the proper way to play myself, so I needed a guide. After just getting into it, I have decided to coach her team next year! Ms. Veroni cites some of her own experiences to "drive home" some of her points. She reviews coaching skills for different situations and has many drills and trouble shooting strategies for all age levels. There are photos to help define drills. The book is written very well and is easy to follow. If you need drills, this is the book to have! Our current coaches have bought it and loved it too.