The coach, to my surprise, subscribed to a rather submissive/baby sitting brand of coaching. The practice had very little structure or organization. After a brief warm-up period, which consisted of a light jog and short stretching routine, he simply divided the team up into two groups. One headed for the two batting cages and the other spread themselves out to fill the remainder of the gym to throw and eventually lined up to take ground bal

To get more of an understanding of what style of coaching the coach used I stayed close to the dugout for the majority of the game. He definitely emphasized winning, but at the same time he cared about his players. There were a couple of occasions where players made mental and physical errors. He definitely let them know that they made a mistake; he raised his voice quite a bit (not screaming...but not talking either). However, he was never demeaning, and whenever he was done getting their attention and pointing out mistakes he offered encouragement, "come on, you're better that that...", or "...get'm next time". I felt that this coach was well balanced and offered much more guidance than the high school coach, which in my opinion is necessary when coaching in competitive levels of organized sports.

ls from the assistant coach. This went on for almost entirety of the two-hour practice (the groups switched about mid way through). During this time the head coach freely roamed the gym, stopping here and there, offering at most minor instruction to where he felt it was needed. While he was doing this, those who were

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