Coaching youth softball can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also feel overwhelming, especially regarding planning practices.
Keeping young players engaged and developing their skills requires a structured approach, but who has the time to reinvent the wheel every time they hit the field? This system provides a complete season’s worth of practice plans designed for 10-14-year-olds, taking the guesswork out of your coaching routine.
These plans offer a flexible framework that allows you to adapt to your team’s needs while keeping things fun. Delivered in a mobile-friendly format, each day’s agenda can be easily accessed on your smartphone, freeing you to focus on what matters most—coaching your players in the moment.
Unlock your team’s winning potential with a structured approach that works.
Structured Softball Practice Plans
Coaching can be a lot of fun but comes with challenges. The best way to address these challenges is to be prepared. We’ve got you covered from warm-ups through hitting drills and a final word with your players.
Consider what plans can do for you as a youth coach:
1.) Instill confidence in yourself, your coaches, and your players by working with a proven system from experienced coaches who have “been there and done that.”
2.) Identify coaching concepts to address and address them in the right way —the right stuff to teach at the right time.
3.) Facilitate player development. The biggest winners of this system are the players!
4.) Save time because the planning is done. You won’t have to start from scratch; review and tweak as needed for your team. Please print out the plan and bring it with you to use as your guide.
5.) “Coach at the moment” by focusing on the task at hand; consequently, you won’t have to worry about what to do next.
Coaching Plans Templates
This ebook includes agendas and teaching points for twenty‐five 90‐minute practices and twenty‐five 10‐minute pre‐practice meetings. Don’t wing it — be ready.
Plans = Preparation
All-time great Lisa Fernandez once said,
“We’re prepared, and we’ve done everything we can to prepare for this moment. That’s what confidence is all about.”
Having a plan like this gives the coaches confidence, which translates to the players. Check out these other great softball quotes.
Benefits of Planning
Here’s why coaches like these plans
1.) You’re ready in very little time. Just take 5 – 10 minutes to review the plans before practice, print out the plan for the day, and you’re good to go.
2.) This coaching process works. John has coached for over twenty years. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel; learn from an expert who has had success.
3.) You can coach now because you don’t have to worry about what to do next. This gives you time to enjoy coaching players. You no longer have to worry about the next drill and how to teach.
4.) Players rapidly improve with this process.
5.) Coach in the correct order and keep your players engaged.
About John Blissenbach
John Blissenbach started as a high school assistant varsity/JV head coach, working with varsity head coach Hank Mauer (the Great uncle of Minnesota Twins All‐Star Catcher Joe Mauer). John has coached all levels of youth softball. He has also coached and managed championship youth and American Legion baseball teams. He began coaching baseball in 1979 at the age of 20.
John has also been a coach for his four children’s baseball, football, basketball, track & soccer teams, and softball. During the past 20 years of coaching, he has had the pleasure of coaching more than 50 youth (boys & girls) teams.
Drills and Practices
Note from author John Blissenbach
Practices can be boring for players. For many teams, they consist of warm-up catch and batting drills followed by a round of infield. Players spent much time standing around watching other players hit and occasionally field a ball hit to them. Most coaches have little time to think about or prepare a plan.
If, as a coach, you would rather have fun, structured, fast‐moving practices loaded with fundamentals, then this book is for you. As you enter a new season, four things are certain: your players will be diverse in their skills and understanding of the game, there is a great deal your players will need to learn, and finally, you will have a limited amount of time to prepare and a limited amount of time during your session.
Practices Make the Difference
How your players spend their time during practice will determine the success of your team’s season. What your players do and when they do is entirely up to you. Your players are counting on you to be prepared so they can be prepared.
This guide is intended to make your coaching job a lot easier. If you’re new to coaching, use this guide as your road map. If you’ve coached before, this guide will remove much of the work associated with mapping out your time with your players. You can supplement our drills and schedule with the concepts that have worked for you in the past.
With your use of this guide, your players will learn, have fun, and pick up on the key softball concepts at the right time. As a coach, you’ll look experienced, knowledgeable, and well-prepared. Plus, with some heavy lifting removed from our schedule, you’ll have more time to appreciate the season. Enjoy!
John Blissenbach
Practice Plans PDF Available Immediately
You’ll receive a PDF upon purchase—this product is a digital download. The PDF works on both Macs and PCs. Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader (available for free) on your computer. The PDF lets you print out pages you want when needed.
Fastpitch softball plans make a big difference. They’ll work for 10u up to high school.
Drills and Tips
The Well-Prepared Coach — 25 Youth Softball Practice Plans — $29.97
You’ll immediately receive a link to download the PDF when you purchase this ebook. The PDF file, which you’ll save to your computer, works on PCs and Macs.
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Free Softball Practice Plans
Here’s one free plan for you to check out the format. Please note that each activity has a suggested period. Coaches sometimes go under or over some activities based on how their teams respond. Don’t worry about making a few changes to each plan to customize them for your needs.
Additional appendix diagrams are included to make it easy for even the newest coaches.
These plans are available immediately as instant digital downloads in PDF format, which works on Macs and PCs.
Practice Planner
With this planner, you can save time and get the most from your players. Be the most prepared. Create a season to remember. This guide makes you ready to go. You can make some adjustments to fit your needs, but you can also follow it minute-by-minute for your season’s road map.
The Secret to Coaching Youth Softball
A big part of seeing the picture is having a vision and a plan. This guide will help you.
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The Well-Prepared Coach — 25 Youth Softball Practice Plans — $29.97
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