Keri Casas

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Name: Keri Casas
Date registered: January 29, 2013

Latest posts

Listening, Learning, Understanding, and Reacting to Different Perspectives — February 14, 2019
Game Day Nutrition by Nikoli Sharp — February 7, 2019
Being A Good Teammate by Nikoli Sharp — January 31, 2019
Comfort Zone by Nikoli Sharp — January 17, 2019
Swing, Batter, Swing — April 13, 2016

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Feb
14

Listening, Learning, Understanding, and Reacting to Different Perspectives

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Coaching

by Keri Casas

Listening, Learning, Understanding, and Reacting to Different Perspectives Getting constructive criticism, feedback, or having to listen to something you don’t want to hear can cause negative reactions, emotions, and future problems among coaches, players, and even parents. Do you get defensive when someone else has a different opinion than you? Some of us can be …

Tags: academics, athletes, being a softball coach, being a softball player, coaching, coaching a female athlete, communication, female athletes, female athletics, learning, learning the game, listening, opinions, perspective, student, student-athlete

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Feb
07

Game Day Nutrition by Nikoli Sharp

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Uncategorized

by Keri Casas

Game Day Nutrition We all know that food and nutrition is important. Like all things, some value it more than others. For competitive athletes, nutrition can make a huge difference in their performance! Speaking from my own experiences as an athlete, and coming from an upbringing in an extremely athletic family, nutrition became a strict …

Tags: athletes, balance, being a softball player, coaching, coaching female athletes, creating goals, energy, female sports, focus, game day, learning the game, nutrition, performance, performing your best, preparing for games, reaching goals, softball

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Jan
31

Being A Good Teammate by Nikoli Sharp

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Coaching

by Keri Casas

What makes a good teammate? Is it a person who is kind, thoughtful, and trustworthy? Is it a person who is honest, hardworking, and inspiring? Is it a person who challenges you, motivates you, and helps you? Who said that the words “good teammate” had to be categorized and defined in one way? Being a …

Tags: being a softball coach, being a softball player, challenge your team, challenge yourself, coach, competitive nature, creating competition, positive influence, positive leadership, positive mindset, softball skills, team, team player, team success, teammates

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Jan
17

Comfort Zone by Nikoli Sharp

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by Keri Casas

Written by: Nikoli Sharp Many of us, athlete or non-athlete, have a fear of getting out of our comfort zone. We were not wired to do things that are uncomfortable, scary, uncertain, or difficult with ease. We were wired to protect ourselves from those things. To protect ourselves from embarrassment, hurt, and failure. …

Tags: coaching, coaching a female athlete, comfort zone, softball, sports

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Apr
13

Swing, Batter, Swing

Categories:

General

by Keri Casas

I recently came across a forum debating the “right hitting instruction for softball players” and was overwhelmed by the conflicting ideas presented from coaches, parents, and athletes across the nation. As I read the confident responses including, “a baseball swing is a softball swing”, “there’s no such thing as a softball swing”, and my favorite, …

Tags: baseball swing, batting, best swing, coaching, coaching softball, female athletes, hitting, softball, softball mechanics, softball swing, swing, swing mechanics

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Apr
29

Coaching For Commitment

Categories:

Coaching

by Keri Casas

Find our EBook Here! The road to collegiate softball takes time, hard work, and discipline within the athlete; but how do we instill the commitment necessary to achieve greatness? How do we prepare them for the next level with extracurricular activities, social media, family events, and other various on-goings outside the game? The importance of …

Tags: athletes, coaching, coaching female athletes, commitment, female, female athletes, female athletics, focus, game, girls, girls athletics, respect, softball, sports, structure, time organization, training

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Jul
01

How to Teach Commitment and Perseverance

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Coaching,
General

by Keri Casas

All too often we let our female athletes “off the hook.” We let them give up, we let them put their head down, and we tell them, “It’s ok”. We feel bad for them, we see how tired they are, we see their emotions on their sleeves, come on, they’re just girls. If you …

Tags: athletes, athletics, coaching, coaching females, coaching young athletes, commitment, dedication, female athletes, hard work, perseverance, practice, support, teammates

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Dec
10

How to Build Confidence

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Coaching

by Keri Casas

Many of you may look at the title of this post and think, “Oh thank goodness, someone out there knows how to help my athlete gain confidence!” Well, it may not be that easy. There is no quick fix, or perfect words to immediately fix your female athlete’s insecurity or lack of aggressiveness. If …

Tags: aggressive athletes, aggressiveness, builiding confidence, coaching, coaching confidence, coaching female athletes, confidence, confident female athletes, creating competition, female confidence, female sports, how to teach confidence, strong athletes, strong female athletes

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Sep
24

How to Manage Academics and Athletics

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Uncategorized

by Keri Casas

I have heard countless stories and excuses among student-athletes for their inability to maintain good grades because of their commitment to their sport. To me, it’s a cop-out. It’s reason for a student to be lazy, to under-achieve, and to go through the motions. Furthermore, I see more and more parents supporting their athletes in …

Tags: academics, achieving high academics, athletes, athletics, coaching, college softball, female athletes, females, keeping commitment, managing time, schedule, softball, time management

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May
14

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Looking the Part of a Softball Coach

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Coaching,
General

by Keri Casas

Monkey see, monkey do. We have all heard this saying, and when we have children, we understand the saying. What we don’t tend to take into account is the impact we have as adults in the simple four-word phrase. Every action we commit , every word we say, children pay attention; they are sponges and …

Tags: being a softball coach, coaching, coaching female athlete, demonstrating drills, demonstrating skills, drills, know how to coach, looking like a coach, performing drills, softball, softball skills

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