Softball Practice Plan | Youth Coaching

This product will give you a complete road map for your softball season. It includes step-by-step breakdowns of each practice so you can be ready in 5 minutes.

While coaching, you can focus on the task without worrying about “what should we do next?” Follow the plan. The plan has been coach-tested, so it works.

Benefits of the Softball Guide

Here’s what this program does:

Instill confidence in yourself, your coaches, and your players by working with a proven system from experienced coaches who have “been there and done that.”
Identifies coaching concepts to address and the order in which to address them—the right stuff to teach at the right time.
Generates team improvement rapidly. The biggest winners are the players!
Saves time. You won’t have to start from scratch; review and tweak as needed for your team. Please print out the plan for your upcoming practice and bring it with you to use as your guide.

If you’ve never had formal softball coaching training or want to improve your chances at a great softball season for your players and their families, this is the solution for you. With the “heavy lifting” done, you can review the practice plan minutes before your scheduled time and be set to go. You’ll be well-prepared and have more fun without the stress.

This ebook includes agendas and teaching points for twenty‐five 90‐minute practices and twenty‐five 10-minute pre‐practice meetings. Don’t wing it—be ready for every softball practice and pre-practice meeting.

About the Author

John Blissenbach has coached all levels of youth softball. He has coached and managed championship youth & American Legion baseball teams. He began coaching baseball in 1979 at the age of 20. John started as a high school assistant varsity/JV head coach, working with varsity head coach Hank Mauer (Great uncle of Minnesota Twins All‐Star Catcher Joe Mauer).

In addition to coaching softball, John has also been a coach for his four children’s baseball, football, basketball, track & soccer teams. During the past 20 years, he has had the great pleasure of coaching more than 50 youth (boys & girls) teams.

NOTE FROM AUTHOR JOHN BLISSENBACH

Softball practices can be boring for players. For many teams, they consist of warm-up catch, batting practice, and a round of infield. Players spend a lot of time standing around watching other players hit and occasionally field a ball hit to them. Most coaches have little time to think about or prepare a plan for each practice.

If as a youth softball coach, you would rather have fun, structured, fast‐moving practices loaded with fundamentals, then this book is for you. As you enter a new softball season, four things are certain; your players will be diverse in their skills and understanding of the game, there is great deal your players will need to learn, and finally, you will have a limited amount of time to prepare for each practice, as well as a limited amount of time during practice.

This guide is intended to make your coaching job a lot easier. If you’re new to coaching, use this guide as your road map. If you’ve coached before, this guide will remove much of the work associated with mapping out each practice. You can supplement the practice plans with your concepts that have worked for you in the past.

Using this guide, your players will learn, have fun, and pick up on the key softball concepts at the right time. As a coach, you’ll look experienced, knowledgeable, and well-prepared. Plus, with some heavy lifting removed from our schedule, you’ll have more time to appreciate the season. Enjoy!

‐‐John Blissenbach

Softball Practice Drills and Tips

The Well-Prepared Coach — 25 Youth Softball Practice Plans (EBook) — $29.97

You’ll immediately receive a link to download the PDF when you purchase this ebook. The PDF file, which you’ll save to your computer, works on PCs and Macs.

The book comes with an overview of the 25 practices.