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| Left to right, Wesley Wolverines freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ), junior #13 Utility Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA), freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ), junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE). |
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| Left to right, Wesley Wolverines sophomore #23 UT Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD), sophomore #2 3B/SS Karina Cardona (Cooper City, FL). |
Five quotes
about conditioning
from a much longer article titled
CONDITIONING ENHANCES...
“Any time you improve a player's overall athleticism and fitness level you help maximize performance.”
► TRAINING
“You can practice all the softball skill work you want, but if your players don't have the conditioning and stamina to properly execute those skills all game long, all weekend long, all season long, what's the point?”
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| Foreground, left to right, Wesley Wolverines freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA), senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE). |
“Don't let your team be the one that starts making mental and physical errors first simply because they get tired first!”
► TEAM
BUILDING
“One thing about enduring tough preseason conditioning with teammates is that, no matter how much one player may not get along with another, you almost can't help but respect someone who came out, day after day, through the conditioning period and shed a bunch of sweat (and maybe even some blood and tears too) right along side you.”
► MENTAL TOUGHNESS
“Why wait until the season starts before you work on staying positive when things get hard?”
Photo on right,
Wesley Wolverine freshman #17 P/ 1B Julianna Neel (Haddon Township, NJ). Behind her, freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA).
