Softball...it's almost here

So as the school year finally comes to a close (thank goodness)…Well for seniors at least it ends early…This event of school coming closer to an end also marks something that’s exciting to me at least, and that’s the beginning of softball practice. Waiting for that day is getting closer and closer, and I couldn’t be more excited for it. I have been playing softball basically since I was like 5 or 6 starting with T-Ball of course and then working my way up to coach pitch, and then I began to do an ASA league through Kennedy and that’s how I got started pitching. I think I have been pitching for like 6 or 7 years; I started off slow and not know what to do, and just doing it for fun. Then one tournament in Solon, the coach put me in pitching, I was pretty scared but at the same time excited, and think I got all three outs by myself. And then as ASA ball went on I got more serious and serious about pitching, practicing whenever I could and going out the field and practicing. Then when I finally got to high school, the summer of my 8th grade year I finally was on the high school level for softball and I was excited, I did pretty well I think. But then my freshman year I was on Varsity and I going to admit that I was terrified because of course we compete with all the teams that have gone to state multiple times and it was kind of intimidating, and that year was also the year that we had gotten a new coach, that actually came from one of the schools that we compete against, and it got kind of annoying when he was our coach because of the fact that he always everyday of practice had to say something that referred to the school across the river…meaning Jefferson, and its like we thought well if you like so much then why don’t you got back…everyone one the team after the second year that he was there thought that we didn’t like him at all. And of course as soon as he resigned we were all excited that he wasn’t coming back…and where did he go….back to Jefferson…which wasn’t surprising at all because he talked about them so much that we thought that he missed it and wanted to go back, and wanted to change our program into a mini version of what Jefferson was and we got tired of it after awhile…anyway off topic. Pitching became my life in the off season…At the end of my freshman year of softball I had begun to start working with a pitching coach in the off season…meaning all winter once a week I would go to sports zone and throw for like an hour…and that’s were I got better and was able to also gain so pitches and got more speed and worked on my mechanics to become a better thrower, and I think that I was lucky that I was able to get a pitching coach to help me get better because I honestly don’t know where I would be as a pitcher if I didn’t have a coach to help me with what I was doing wrong and helping me fix it, and also I would have the pitches that I do right now and I m excited for that because the pitches I have now I think have made me a pretty successful pitcher.