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The Definitive Fastpitch Softball Guide
for New and Seasoned Coaches

Regardless of your years coaching fastpitch softball, you are always looking for that next great thing to help improve your team. Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com is all about helping you achieve that goal with its primary focus on YOU, The Coach. We have built this site to address the needs of the recreation coach, the travel team coach and the high school coach.

This site will help the new softball coach figure out how to structure his/her practices to maximize training time, strategies to employ in key situations during the game, and how to help your players become better players and, more importantly, better people. In addition, Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com will help you understand and find the equipment you and your players need to be successful.

Fastpitch Softball Recreation Team

For the experienced coach, there are always areas of concern with your team. We will help you by providing drills for specific areas of the game. Be it pitching, hitting, throwing, or fielding, you will find a drill to help address that concern. We hope you will help us assist the newer coaches by sharing some of your favorite drills. At the end of all of our drill pages will be a space for you to submit some of your favorite drills. This "Help and Be Helped" concept, so prevalent in the game of fastpitch softball, will be manifested on Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com. So "Pay It Forward" and help your fellow coaches with how you've been successful.

Fastpitch Softball Travel Team

If you are a player or a parent of a player, we have not forgotten you. In addition to the drills available on the site, you will also see some of the best deals we've been able to come across as we continue to build the site out. In addition, hear what high school and college coaches expect from their players and what they look for, as we share interviews with coaches so you know firsthand how to prepare your daughters to play at the various levels.

Our Salvo Outer Banks Vacation Rental

Some of the areas covered are:

  • The Basics of Fastpitch Softball

  • Coaching Philosophy and How to Handle Your Team

  • Pitching Drills

  • Hitting Drills

  • Fielding Drills

  • Game Situations

  • Competitive Levels of the Game

  • Fastpitch Softball Tournaments

  • Softball Equipment

  • Fun Things of the Game

We look forward to hearing from you as we continue to build out Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com and remember:

It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

-- Mike Candrea, Former Head Coach, Team USA



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How to Play Softball: The Coach's Role
Often when you see a "How to Play Softball", it fails to mention the coach. What is the coach's role in controlling and teaching his team?

Fastpitch Softball Rules: The Rules, Field Layout, Players and Positions
Understanding the basic fastpitch softball rules, from the softball positions to the field layout, is pivotal in being a successful coach.

Girls Fastpitch Softball: Levels of Competitive Play
Girls fastpitch softball is played at various levels, from the recreational league level up to the professional level. Find out more about each.

The Travel Team: Why Do They Do It?
Coaching a travel team comes with high expectations. Knowing them and managing expectations will be key to your success.

Softball Hitting Drills: Keep It Simple
Softball hitting drills will help your team enhance their abilities at the plate. Hitting is hard enough, so keep it simple.

Fastpitch Softball Drills: Practice Setup & Team Drills
Understanding how to structure your practice and selecting the appropriate fastpitch softball drills to improve your team's performance.

Fastpitch Softball Bats: How to Pick the Perfect Bat
Choosing the right fastpitch softball bats is a little science, but also part art.

Softball Gloves: Finding the Perfect Glove
There is no piece of equipment players will have longer than her softball gloves. Picking the right size is essential.

About Us: Why Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com?
This is a little bit about the people behind Fastpitch-Softball-Coaching.com; our coaching philosophy, some of the tricks we learned along the way, and why we decided to build this website.

Contact Us
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Our Favorite Links: Some Softball Related; Some Not; But All Great Sites
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