Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Special Pitcher and Player Clinics Begin This Week!

Mad River Girls Fastpitch Softball Association is excited to add former Arcata High softball coach Kelly Helms to our coaching staff this season. Kelly will be leading pitching and player clinics all registered MRGFSA players on Fridays and Saturdays for this season. Kelly is an outstanding coach and a great teacher of softball skills. We're excited to have her on our "staff".

Pitchers Clinics:
Friday nights at Pacific Union School in Arcata
8-10 year olds from 5:00 - 6:00
11-16 year olds from 6:00 - 7:00
No charge, but every pitcher needs to bring a catcher (adult preferred).

Fri 3/26: The PU field is open and the clinic will go on as scheduled!

Player Clinics:
Saturday mornings at Pacific Union School
7-10 year olds from 9:00 - 10:30 am
11-16 year olds from 10:30 - 12:00.
$5 per player per session helps cover the costs of her assistant coaches.

All registered MRGFSA players are invited to participate in these clinics throughout the season.

We'll see y'all out on the diamond.

1 comment:

Kelly Helms said...

I just wanted to thank the young ladies and their parents who committed their time this weekend to softball. Friday night I had a chance to work with five young ladies pitching. The younger girls worked on basic technique, while the older girls fine tuned their pitching motion. We even did a bit of work on a change up. Saturday we worked with three young ladies and their dads/coaches working on throwing technique and defensive stance. Dads and Coaches even got a chance to participate and learn too! We worked on skills like shuffle step, forehand, and backhand and then practiced them with simulated ground balls. To wrap up the session, we worked a bit on base running. We worked on running through the bag and rounding the bag in the event of a base hit. Next session we will expand on the skills we worked on this time but add defensive skills like flips, fly balls, crow hop, and more! We hope to see you there!