It's that time of year! The last part of August/early Sept. marks the start of our practice portion of our fall semester. We start out every year with a couple weeks of "individuals." During the fall, we are only allowed to practice a certain amount of days as a team, which equals to about a month. Before and after this time, Division 1 schools are allowed to invest only 8 hours of time to skill instruction and strength and conditioning. Only 2 hours of that time can be invested in actual skill instruction each week. Here at Wichita State, we divide that time up into 4, 30 minute session per athlete. Our individual schedule usually looks like this: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays are offensive days, and Wednesdays are defensive days. During these sessions, we devote this time to concentrate on the fundamentals and doing the little things right. During the offensive sessions, we do alot of tee and front toss drill work. On defense, we spend the first day getting back to the fundamentals of throwing and fielding, and then we will get some repititions from the plate the last 8-10 minutes. We do this so our returners can have a refresher course and get back in the flow of things, and give our rookies a good foundation on how we do things here before fall team practice starts.
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