BATS Breeze Athletic Training School

Breeze Players: You’re not a great team because you work together. Anyone can occupy the same space. That doesn’t make them a team. You’re great because you trust, respect, care for each other. You depend on, need each other. You become great because you work better together than apart.

Players: One of the most powerful attributes of a great teammate is an ability to express unwavering belief in another teammate. That level of leadership separates you from other players. There's something very special about teammates who have each other's backs & communicate it!

Players: What is your identity as a player? Are you a competitor? Anybody who watches you play, even for one minute, should say, Man, that young lady competes Competing is a prerequisite for good things to happen to you, but more importantly, it’s essential for your team’s success.

Breeze Players: How you do anything in life is how you do everything. Name a player who is late for class, disrespects their teachers/coaches/parents, never keeps their word, doesn’t complete school work & always has an excuse, but is otherwise a great teammate. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

Breeze Coaches: It’s impossible to make 100% of people happy 100% of the time. Don’t waste time on it. Figure out what makes your team be at its best & concentrate on that. You know which players have great effort, attitudes, toughness & can help your team WIN. That’s where you focus.

Breeze Players: Effort is a form of respect. Not just for yourself or the coaches you play for, but for the game you play & for all those who have come before you. Respect the game. Don’t slack. Don’t be indifferent. The effort you give is in direct proportion to the success you make!

We are very excited to announce that Hope Brandner will be joining our BATS Facility for hitting lessons. This young lady is the real deal and she could improve your daughters hitting. Please contact her at (707) 450-8038 or email at [email protected]. Please read her resume it’s very impressive All-Big Ten First Team Earned All-Big Ten Tournament honors NFCA All-Great Lakes Region Second Team ... Two-Time Big Ten Player of the Week (Feb. 11 & Apr. 8.) Started all 60 games at first base. Led team with 19 home runs which is the third highest program single season history. Hit .354 with nine doubles, 19 home runs, 59 RBIs, a .731 slugging percentage and a .458 on base percentage. Opened the season with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs on her way to being named Big Ten Player of the Week. Hit two home runs and drove in five runs against Kent State on Mar. 1. Had a 1.625 slugging percentage with a home run in each game and six RBIs in a series against Illinois. Hit a home run in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals against Northwestern and in the Big Ten Championship game on May 11. Launched an eighth inning walk-off home run against Georgia in regionals on May 18. 2018 | FRESHMAN (Oregon State) Pac-12 All-Conference Third Team. Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. NFCA All-Pacific Region First Team. Pac-12 Freshman of the Week March 19. Led the team in RBI (36), home runs (12), slugging percentage (.530). Hit walk-off RBI to beat No. 2/5 Oregon on March 30 for the first time since 2012. Had two home runs against Seattle U on March 10. Went 3-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored against No. 22/19 BYU on Feb. 10. Batted .299 overall and .304 in Pac-12 play. High School Captain for the softball team at Vanden H.S. Four-year All-League member Three-year Section MVP San Joaquin Section Playoff Consecutive Homerun Record holder with eight consecutive home runs

I read this article and thought it was worth sharing Healthy Challenges Competitiveness itself is not a negative trait, but learning how to win or lose gracefully takes practice. "For preschoolers, playing progressively more complex games helps them experience competition in a positive way," says Dr. Kennedy-Moore. Start with "Can you beat your own record?" games that involve your child competing against herself. "Preschoolers love stopwatches because they're also just le...arning about the concept of time," says Dr. Kennedy-Moore. You can suggest one or two challenges: How fast can she run to that tree and back? Can she recite the alphabet faster today than she did yesterday? Teach her that winning is about being her best possible self and that there's always room for improvement. Next, teach your child some cooperative-style games -- activities where the family works together to achieve a goal, like everyone using the same piece to play Candy Land. "That way, no one person wins or loses -- you turn it into a group effort to get to the finish together," says Dr. Kennedy-Moore. Not surprisingly, some kids are simply more bent on winning than others: We live in a competitive world. The older kids get, the more they will experience winning -- and losing. "The ability to bounce back after a loss becomes increasingly important as your child reaches the elementary-school years," says Dr. Levey Friedman. "Teaching resilience now sets kids up for success because they learn that failure isn't the end of the world. It's just a chance to try again." Originally published in the February 2014 issue of Parents magazine.

Competing has become somewhat of a lost art for this generation of softball players, and one that I hear from many college coaches that is a characteristic they are searching for in their future athletes. Nowadays, more often than not, competing is a quality that is having to be taught, instead of being innate.

Parents: Your daughters have to learn to dig deep, struggle & fight their way out of adversity. You can put them on every kind of competitive team, get them a trainer & extra practice, but if they can’t claw their way past the troubles that WILL come, they’ll never develop as athletes and compete at the college level.

As a 2009 team, we have a core of great athletes and families and are looking to add another pitcher and all-around athletes. All positions are open for competi...tion. Our vision is to continue building an age-pure core of hardworking, committed athletes, along with supportive families. https://www.californiabreeze.org See more

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If this is going to remain the land of the free, it must be the home of the brave. Learn how to parent resilient kids at RaiseThemStrong.com.

A couple of things I’ve learned in my 33 years of coaching softball 1. The player who refuse to put in extra work gets left behind by those that work harder. 2. The player who’s afraid to make a mistake in practice won’t last against the more competitive players.... 3. Taking a break can change everything in terms of your role on the team.

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Parents: You can buy your kids a phone; pay for college, a car. You can buy sporting equipment & uniforms, but you can’t buy their success. If they want it, they have to earn it. Success isn’t easy. It’s gritty & hard. The price comes with a lot of extra work, trials & failure.

Putting in the work to get stronger and better.