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| From top, Wesley Wolverines senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE), sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD), junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA). |
Saturday, November 11, 2017
WINNERS!
Friday, November 10, 2017
HAPPY VETERANS DAY!
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| VETERANS DAY 2017 THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE SERVED Wesley Wolverines pictured above from left, senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE), junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE). Visit the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team website. Click here for information about the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team’s (WWAST’s) tour of Virginia (Manassas, Fredericksburg, Portsmouth, Hopewell, Richmond, and Bedford areas) next April 20-29, 2018. |
DON'T LOOK BACK
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| From top, Wesley Wolverine freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA) and freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD). |
Thursday, November 9, 2017
DEVIN MACKAY VISIT
An outstanding scholar-athlete
Devin Mackay stops by,
visiting the 2018 Wolverines
“Who’s on first?”
Could it be Wesley Wolverine defensive player of the 2017 year #42 1B/P Devin Mackay (Bangor, PA)?
Devin is well known to have never let a wide throw past her while stretched out from the first base bag. At the plate last season, she was one of the Wolverine RBI leaders who led the team and tied for sixth in the CAC in doubles. Devin was a standout hurler from the circle, too.
Devin Mackay stops by,
visiting the 2018 Wolverines
“Who’s on first?”
Could it be Wesley Wolverine defensive player of the 2017 year #42 1B/P Devin Mackay (Bangor, PA)?
Devin is well known to have never let a wide throw past her while stretched out from the first base bag. At the plate last season, she was one of the Wolverine RBI leaders who led the team and tied for sixth in the CAC in doubles. Devin was a standout hurler from the circle, too.
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| Devin Mackay |
A President’s List scholar (earning a perfect 4.0 GPA), Devin picked up her diploma from Wesley with a B.S. in Nursing last May.
Is she back?! Yes, temporarily, but just for this evening in a brief visit to the weight room with the new 2018 Wesley Wolverines.
Below she poses with three who will cover the first base bag this 2018 season. They are, from the left, freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA), freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ) and freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ) with graduate #42 1B/P Devin Mackay (Bangor, PA) stretched out below them!
Is she back?! Yes, temporarily, but just for this evening in a brief visit to the weight room with the new 2018 Wesley Wolverines.
Below she poses with three who will cover the first base bag this 2018 season. They are, from the left, freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA), freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ) and freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ) with graduate #42 1B/P Devin Mackay (Bangor, PA) stretched out below them!
VETERANS DAY
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| Wesley Wolverine sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD) covering 2B with American Flag on fence as a backdrop at the Penn State Abington Huntingdon Field, April 11, 2017 |
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| More photos of the event at Wesley College Facebook page. |
DOUBLE PLAY COMBO
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| A WESLEY WOLVERINE DOUBLE PLAY COMBO, from left sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD), freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ). |
PUSHING HARDER
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| Wesley Wolverines freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ) and senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE). |
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
FRESHMAN ARMS
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WESLEY WOLVERINE FRESHMAN ARMS, from top,
#25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA),
#17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ),
#4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD)
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
WORKOUT 11-7
CONDITIONING
Tuesday, November 7
39 photos below of fastpitch
Wesley Wolverines working hard.
Always inspiring to watch the dedication of these young women to personal sweat and physical exertion taken to their limits, night after winter night, solely to prepare themselves individually and as a team for the most success possible in the 2018 softball season.
MYRTLE BEACH DREAMIN'
Week of March 11, 2018, games
North Myrtle Beach dreamin’,
heavy early team registrations
To date, 87 collegiate teams are signed up for next March’s (2018’s) Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic softball tournament with most, if not all, games held at the beautiful North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex (150 Citizens Circle, Little River, SC).
The Wesley Wolverines are, of course, registered as one of the 87 and no stranger to these games. The team has played at this location since the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex's opening in Spring 2014 as well as many years before on softball diamonds throughout the Myrtle Beach area.
The college softball team registrations cover tournament schedules held the entire month of March on the North Myrtle Beach fields from NCAA, NJCAA and NAIA squads.
The Wolverines will play the week of March 11, 2018, dates that, so far, have attracted a total of 18 other D3 NCAA teams committed to be there. More teams almost certainly will be added well into January 2018.
The Wolverines have enjoyed great success at these South Carolina contests over their last five early-season visits.
Last year, Spring 2017, Wesley tallied a 6-2 record at these games. In Spring 2015, the team won 8 of 9 games, improving on Spring 2015’s 7 wins in 10 games, Spring 2014’s 5 victories in 8 meetings and Spring 2013’s 4-4 record. (Two years ago, the Wolverines traveled to Clermont, Florida, for the southern Spring 2015 games.)
North Myrtle Beach dreamin’,
heavy early team registrations
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| Wesley Wolverine junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA). |
The college softball team registrations cover tournament schedules held the entire month of March on the North Myrtle Beach fields from NCAA, NJCAA and NAIA squads.
The Wolverines will play the week of March 11, 2018, dates that, so far, have attracted a total of 18 other D3 NCAA teams committed to be there. More teams almost certainly will be added well into January 2018.
The Wolverines have enjoyed great success at these South Carolina contests over their last five early-season visits.
Last year, Spring 2017, Wesley tallied a 6-2 record at these games. In Spring 2015, the team won 8 of 9 games, improving on Spring 2015’s 7 wins in 10 games, Spring 2014’s 5 victories in 8 meetings and Spring 2013’s 4-4 record. (Two years ago, the Wolverines traveled to Clermont, Florida, for the southern Spring 2015 games.)
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| Wesley Wolverine sophomore #23 UT Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD). |
OUTFIELDERS IMPORTANCE
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WESLEY WOLVERINE OUTFIELDERS, FROM LEFT…
junior #8 Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE),
freshman #32 Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA),
junior #99 Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE).
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Vital part of team
Outties anthem:
Why outfielders really matter!
From a longer article by Haylie McCleney McCleney, USSSA Pride.
CLICK HERE for the full story @ FLOSOFTBALL.
“Outfielders are the last line of defense. They are a vital, integral part of every team. They can make you, and they can definitely break you...
“We give the pitcher confidence that if they make a mistake, it's okay because we have her back.
“Outfielders know and understand pressure and adversity. We throw people out at home. We rob home runs. We dive in the gap even if no one is backing us up. We deliver accurate throws to our cutoffs…
“when an outfielder makes a mistake, it's not just one base that the runner gets — it's probably two as well, sometimes even three extra bases. Knowing that, as a coach, why would you not put your most reliable, athletic players out there?
“I was always told in college that pressure is a privilege. So why would anyone not want to be an outfielder? It's a privilege to be that last line of defense."
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Monday, November 6, 2017
DISCIPLINE
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| From left, Wesley Wolverine senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE) and freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA). |
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Friday, November 3, 2017
MOTIVATION
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| TOP PHOTO, left-to-right, Wesley Wolverines Assistant Coach Nina Marcano, freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA), junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE), freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA), senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE), in the background: freshman #24 P/OF Zoee Garis (Lebanon, PA). BOTTOM PHOTO, left-to-right, Wesley Wolverines freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ), freshman #4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD), freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ), junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA). |
LOUISVILLE XENO
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| Pictured, Wesley Wolverine freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD). The Louisville Slugger Xeno is the official bat of the Wesley Wolverines. CLICK HERE (& scroll down) for three past blog posts (including this one) about this unique Louisville fastpitch bat. |
CROSSFIT CONDITIONING
Fastpitch Wolverines experience
an arduous CrossFit conditioning
Assistant Coach Nina Marcano brought her CrossFit exercises to the fastpitch Wolverines last night.
She introduced the players to “MetCon” (metabolic conditioning), which meant, in this case, partnered teams of two in dual repeated lifting workouts “AMRAP”-style. AMRAP is an acronym for "as many reps as possible."
The AMRAP winning team (pictured in the second photocollage below) for the most reps was, from left, Wesley Wolverines freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ) and junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).
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From top, left-to-right, Wesley Wolverines
freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA),
freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD),
freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA),
junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE),
freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA),
freshman #4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD),
senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE).
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| From left, Wesley Wolverines freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ) and junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE). CLICK HERE for 37 PHOTOS of the CrossFit conditioning. |
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
ENLARGED TEAM PHOTOS
PRACTICE & PERFORM
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| From left, Wesley Wolverines senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE) and freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA). |
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