Suzy Willemssen: Hi! I'm Suzy Willemssen. I coach the Blue Jays Gold, which is 18 and under Girl's ASA Fast Pitch Team. I'm also the head coach at Chantilly High School and a professional hitting instructor and it's my pleasure to offer you some tips, insights regarding some basic fastpitch softball skills. In particular, we'll be reviewing the throwing, fielding ground balls, bunting, hitting, pitching and just kind of touch upon how important the mental aspect is of the game.
It's my sincere honor and pleasure to have a two of the areas of premium softball players, helping me to demonstrate some of the skills, Christie Spars, who will be attending at Broward College, in Florida, and Erin Moran, who will be attending Notre Dame. So, let's get going.
As with any sport particularly, be a baseball and softball that we're talking today safety is first. So, if you're doing any type of hitting, you got to make sure you have that helmet on, and preferably with a mask that's the rules for today. You need to have a helmet with the face mask. When you are throwing, make sure you are warmed up. Again, we will talk a little bit about injury prevention when we talk about our throwing skills, and by all means, whoever you're throwing the ball to they'd better be looking at you.
I don't know how many times I've seen people throwing the ball around and they throw it to a person and their heads turned away. So, make sure you're warmed up, make sure the person you're playing catch with this watching you and if you're in the batter's box, and make sure you got that helmet on and preferable with the face mask.
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