Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills
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Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills by Michele Smith
Softball might look like baseball, but it's a whole different ballgame. This title offers the basics you need to teach softball well. It contains 200 drills that cover hitting, pitching, fielding, and base running to provide a wealth of skill-building activities for youth-league and high-school level coaches.
Michele Smith is two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. National Softball Team, an ESPN softball commentator, and will be inducted into the American Softball Association Hall of Fame in 2006. A 13-year veteran of the Japan Pro Softball League, she is a sports celebrity in Japan, having pitched her team, the Toyota Shokki, to six league championships and won 6 MVP awards. In 2005 she served as the U.S. player representative to the International Softball Federation delegation to lobby the International Olympic Committee to reinstate Olympic softball. Michele organizes and runs softball clinics worldwide, including coaching clinics in cooperation with Little League. Michele has long-running endorsement contracts with leading manufacturers such as Worth (bats and gloves), Musco (field lighting) and JUGS (pitching machines), as well as a line of instructional DVDs. Lawrence Hseih (pronounce"shay") is a corporate and sports attorney in private practice. His commentary and analysis on the IOC's decision to drop softball as an Olympic sport was published in the New York Law Journal and reprinted by USA Softball, the sport's Olympic organizer in the U.S. Hsieh coaches youth softball for his daughter's team, studies tae kwon do with his son, and participates in many other sports, including swimming, SCUBA, skiing, fencing, baseball, and soccer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780071485876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0071485872 |
| Title | Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills |
| Author | Michele Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2008-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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