Keri Casas

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Name: Keri Casas
Date registered: January 29, 2013

Latest posts

Swing, Batter, Swing — April 13, 2016
Coaching For Commitment — April 29, 2015
How to Teach Commitment and Perseverance — July 1, 2014
How to Build Confidence — December 10, 2013
How to Manage Academics and Athletics — September 24, 2013

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Apr
13

Swing, Batter, Swing

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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

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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

Categories:

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

Categories:

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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Mar
18

“Bats, Gloves, and Glitter” is now available on Amazon!

Categories:

Coaching,
General

by Keri Casas

Thank you all for the great, positive feedback regarding our Coaching a Female Athlete Blog. With such great response, we are happy to announce our first eBook entitled, “Bats, Gloves, and Glitter: 7 Must-Know Facts about Female Athletes.” We cover the most essential, and sometimes daunting, aspects of coaching young, female athletes in an easy-t0-read …

Tags: book, coaching, coaching females, coaching young athletes, eBook, female athletes, how-to, reading, softball

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Jan
29

How to Coach an Athlete Who Takes Private Lessons

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by Keri Casas

Sometimes an athlete taking private lessons can hinder your relationship with her and her parents. Parents spend a lot of time and money on private instruction and do not want things to differ from what they are spending their money on. If your style of teaching is different than what their instructor is teaching, you …

Tags: athlete that takes lessons, coaching, instruction, lessons and coaching, private instruction

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Aug
30

How to Coach a Pitcher

Categories:

Coaching

by Keri Casas

Many coaches run into the issue of how to coach a pitcher, especially when they have never been a pitcher before. Even if a coach has prior experience as a baseball pitcher, it simply isn’t the same; mentally or physically. Coaching a female athlete, for one, can prove to be a difficult task in …

Tags: coaching, coaching a female athlete, coaching a pitcher, pitcher fail, pitcher mentality, pitcher success, pitchers, pitching with confidence, positive coaching, softball pitching, support of a pitcher

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Apr
10

How To Motivate Your Daughter to Practice

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by Keri Casas

You pay money for lessons, you travel to all her practices and games, you pay for her to be on the team, but she won’t practice. You put in all the time and effort you can, because she says she loves the game and wants to play, but won’t put in the work to …

Tags: daughter practice, female athlete, female athlete practice, motivate athlete, motivate daughter, motivation, practice, sport

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