Gary Leland: Hello and welcome to the fastpitch TV show. I am your host Gary Leland. If you’re finding our show on another website or somewhere else, please check out our website, our full show, it’s www.fastpitchtvshow.com, check out the website and find out about past episodes, things like that. Also don’t forget to check out sponsor softballjunk.com, without them we wouldn’t be here. And before we start today’s show I do want to tell everybody about our newest episode of the fastpitch radio show, you can find the show at www.softballpodcast.com. We’re in episode 21 and this week we have interview with Stacey Nuveman, the Olympic softball catcher, three time Olympian. So, check that out, I think you’ll find it very interesting, it was a great interview. Then at this week show, we’re going to interview Meagan Denny.
Meagan Denny is from Dallas, Fort Worth area. I interviewed a while with that PFX tour, she travels with them, she played on a softball team a couple of years older than my team but once I was with her team. She won 1,500 UTEP nationals. Then she went on to win the Texas high school championship at her high school. And then she went to UTEP, the University of Texas Player College Ball. Denny Meagan is a great person and a funny girl and I think you’ll enjoy the interview. So, we’ll be right back after the interview. See you in a minute.
Meagan Denny: I use 12.5-inch glove.
I don’t hit. I woe let me have a bat.
My favorite practice drill would probably be right before I start throw up in the mount, I like to walk into my pitch and throw the ball as hard as can so I feel pretty powerful and strong when I do that, that’s one of my favorite drill for practice.
Make sure that you want to contact whatever college that you’re willing to pursue, send them emails, sent them your resumes, then pictures of yourself, and tell them all about you, where you’re going to playing as they then come and watch you, and we have to do this periodically, you can’t just do it one time. They’ve need to see your name on their desk just about every other day so they know who you are and they -- that you will stick into their mind so they’ll be up all the time watching you.
Probably coaches out there who want to put together a successful team, I think you need to get a lot of girls with the same personalities so they can have good chemistry, may be some girls who have played together, you know, something is familiar, and also make sure you find parents that are very – they have the same chemistry as the girls. You want a very nice wonderful comfortable atmosphere for your team.
It’s being negative, being negative. I have come, you know, from watching parents, watching coaches, watching everybody handle young girls in softball is that one negative remark to a girl can ruin 1,000 better girls.
Well, you know every softball player is different I mean they’re going to have -- some softball players are going to be a little bit better at the skill, you know not so good the skill, you know, they are all different but I think the one thing that everybody can get better at is their mental game. I think just learning how to have the focus, you know is definitely -- how to control your mind and control your focus is definitely something I think all the softball players can definitely work on and get better at no matter how old you are or what level you play at.
Actually I have a tip, don’t ever put a glove in a marker away, don’t ever do it, it’ll burn it up and it’ll ruin it, I have to in.
Male Speaker: That’s a tip.
Meagan Denny: I learned the hard way. But you know, you can put a ball in the glove and wrap a big rubber band around it and so that will actually shape the glove in the shape of the ball, which is very good. And also you can just get out and play good old game of catch.
My favorite softball player of all time well, you know I’d – I am going to have to say Lisa Fernandez. You know when I was 11 years old, I saw her pitching, I tried to mimic everything she did, everything she did I did and, you know some of those old habits are still with me today. So, thank you Lisa Fernandes for making me a better pitcher.
Gary Leland: Hello welcome back from the interview. Like I said, Meagan is a funny girl, she will make laugh and she is really one of the nicest people I have met, a real ambassador for the sport. So, I hope you enjoyed the interview. Please tell your friends about our show, tell them to check this out or you’ll find us at youtube, iTunes this sort of softball will come up in everyone, alright, so you can go to our website softball or fastpitchtvshow.com. Don’t forget to check our sponsor softballjunk.com, without them we wouldn’t be here. And until next week thanks for watching.
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