Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully. This item is unavailable.Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully

During her prolific 25-year coaching career, Coach Kathy Veroni has won more than 1,000 women’s premier and Division I collegiate games. She also has served as president of both the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the United States Fastpitch Association.

In Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully, Veroni shows you how to build a winning softball program and field a great team every year. She explains how to develop a coaching philosophy, motivate and teach players, and plan for each season. You’ll also find proven offensive and defensive strategies, including 121 drills for developing players’ hitting, fielding, pitching, and baserunning.

Complete with sample practice and conditioning plans, scouting cards, evaluation forms, community sponsorship activities, and more than 220 illustrations, Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully is an all-in-one resource for softball coaches at all levels.

Kathy Veroni has served as head softball coach at Western Illinois University (WIU) in Macomb, IL for more than 25 years. A past president of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and United States Fastpitch Association, Veroni has won over 1,000 women’s premier and Division I college games, as well as founding a women’s premier fastpitch team that she coached to two U.S. Olympic Sports Festivals.

Veroni is a member of both the Illinois State University Hall of Fame and the Illinois Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame. She has also recruited, coached, and taught two Olympians: Dot Richardson for the United States and Kara McGaw for Canada.

When away from softball, Veroni enjoys golfing, gardening, and camping.

Veroni was assisted in the writing of this book by Mindy Dessert, an assistant softball coach at WIU who played Division I softball for Veroni for four years.