Ok, not necessarily musings, but the title got your attention right!
The fall season is now over. The weather is turning cooler, days are getting shorter, recruiting is heating up, and the stretch run of the academic semester is now upon our team. After having what has definetly been a great fall season, our programs attention now turns to concentrating on the little things. We have started individuals back up, and can honestly say that this may have been the best week of individual practices in my 2.5 years here. Like I have previously posted, our individuals sessions are split up into four, half hour sessions, four days a week. Its all about getting back to the basics and concentrating on doing the little things right. Our team is also getting after it harder in the weight room as well, working on building on the solid foundation they started since the start of the semester, and getting quicker and more agile.
Academically, it has been a solid semester so far, but now is the time when they will have to step it up and really bear down on their studies. The NCAA only allows us 8 hours per week to do the things we need to do softball wise (only two hours of that can be skill instruction), so they have alot more time on their hands to get the job done. Coach Burris, along with our advisor with the Athletics Student Services department, keeps close tabs on our teams academics. She periodically schedules individual meetings with them to go over their grades, areas they need help in, setting academic goals until the next meeting, etc. Doing this helps us to not only stay on top of things, but also keeps reinforcing how important their grades and progressing along to their degress really is.
As always, GO SHOCKERS, and hope you continue to enjoy this blog. More postings to come soon!
