CBS INTERVIEW

TV interview this morning
Phillies ballgirl, Wesley Wolverine
Megan DiRubbio on CBS Philly show

Tryouts are today for 50 young women to join this year’s Phillies ballgirl team. Our own Wesley Wolverine fastpitch junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE) was selected last year and will work with the MLB group again this coming season.

Below is a video clip of Megan’s TV interview this morning about the Phillies ballgirls. For the full video, please go to http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/3790262-phillies-to-hold-ballgirl-tryouts

Megan will be busy as a Phillies ballgirl this summer. For about four games a month, she will be on the Phillies field monitoring the baselines to field foul balls and interact with fans throughout the game as well as visiting the seats of sick or underprivileged fans to present them with special Phillies packages.

She also will participate in several environmental initiatives and join other Phillies Ballgirls to make over 150 off-field appearances at schools, nursing homes, golf and bowling tournaments and fashion shows.

We expect Megan to star in the Phillies ballgirls softball games played for charity. In addition, the ballgirls are instrumental in Community Outreach events such as the Phillies Phestival, Summer Week of Giving, Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, and Season of Giving.

CLICK HERE FOR THE MEGAN DIRUBBIO INTERVIEW VIDEO

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Phillies ballgirl and Wesley Wolverine

junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).

MEGAN & CBS PHILLY

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WEDNESDAY MORNING ■ 1/10 

CBS PHILLY ■ BETWEEN 6-7 AM

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Posted: Jan 09, 2018

DiRubbio to be interviewed 

on CBS Philly Morning Show

PHILADELPHIA – Junior outfielder Megan DiRubbio will be featured on CBS Philadelphia Eyewitness News in the Morning on Wednesday morning between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.

A Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Second Team honoree a season ago, DiRubbio registered the fifth-highest batting average (.441) and seventh-highest on-base percentage (.485) in the CAC while primarily being used in the lead-off spot or in the nine hole.

DiRubbio is a ball girl for the Philadelphia Phillies and will discuss the upcoming season for the Phillies and tryouts to be a ball girl for the upcoming baseball season.

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From the top, a composite of two 
entirely different 2017 fall-ball plays: 
batting, Wesley Wolverine freshman 
#5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD) and 
sliding, freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA).

PUSH HARDER

Wesley Wolverine junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA).

NEW BATTER BOX RULES

CLICK HERE FOR NEW NCAA
BATTER'S BOX RULES VIDEO

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Slap hitting Wesley Wolverine junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).

SEASON EXPECTATIONS

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Wesley Wolverines in conditioning workout last semester (2017) at Wesley West Fieldhouse. From top, left-to-right,
freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD),
freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA),
freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ),
freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA),
sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD),
junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA),
freshman #4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD),
freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA).

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THE RIGHT PEOPLE

From left, Wesley Wolverines
freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar
(Egg Harbor City, NJ) and
junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).

ST. PATRICK'S PARADE

North Myrtle Beach
ST. PATRICK’S DAY 

PARADE & FESTIVAL

THE 30TH ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL & PARADE will be held on North Myrtle Beach’s Main Street, Saturday, March 17, 2018, at 9 a.m.

CLICK HERE for the parade and festival website.

This one-day, rain or shine event BRINGS APPROXIMATELY 30,000 PEOPLE to celebrate being Irish and welcome the coming of spring.

Following the parade is the ST. PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL with THREE STAGES OF LIVE MUSIC and a children’s area with rides and amusements from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Crafts, services, information, products, and treats will be on display from approximately 150 VENDORS.

Depending on the game dates and times, March 17 -- the day of the parade and festival -- may be the morning that the Wesley Wolverines begin their trek home to Delaware.

Pictured, from left to right, Wesley Wolverines

freshman#17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ). 

freshman#4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD), 

freshman#25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA), 

freshman#12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ), 

freshman#9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA) 

all of whom may (or may not depending on game times) be traveling home to 

the Wesley campus from North Myrtle 

Beach on the day of the parade.

COMPETITION

COMPETITION CAN 
BRING OUT YOUR BEST

Summarized from a much longer article titled “DR. TIM ELMORE: COMPETITION. IS IT GOOD FOR YOU?” posted at We Are One Softball. Please click here for the full story.

A group jumping from a plane for the first time where shown to experience less anxiety after successive jumps by measuring chemicals in their saliva. Another group of SEASONED ballroom dancers was tested to have the SAME angst before EVERY performance as the first time jumpers.

“Dancing is much safer than skydiving, don’t you think? Why the heightened adrenaline?

“The answer is competition.

“The dancers, while very experienced, were competing with each other. That’s it.

“It was discovered that whenever people are watched, evaluated, or know they are performing alongside someone else, they tend to perform better. Our senses are raised. We are alert. We are more aware of who we are and what we’re doing. In short, we tend to be at our best.”

From top, left-to-right, Wesley Wolverines
freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA),
freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ),
junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).

STRENGTH, REFLEXES, SPEED

Wesley Wolverine junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA)
takes second base in last semester's 2017 fall-ball games.

TEAM USA 2018

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MEET TEAM USA 2018 @

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From top, Wesley Wolverines
sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD) and
sophomore #2 3B/SS Karina Cardona (Cooper City, FL).

TEAMWORK

From left, Wesley Wolverines
freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA),
freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ),
junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA)
recording an out in last semester’s 2017 fall-ball games.

VALUE OF ATHLETICS

COST AND VALUE OF 

ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION

Below is an interesting chart prepared by Ohio University about the costs and benefits of high school athletics.

Wesley Wolverine sophomore #6 

P/UT Allison Mills (Leonardtown, MD) 

at the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic

2017, North Myrtle Beach, SC.

If you have difficulty reading the chart's smaller print, please CLICK HERE to view the post of the original infographic online.

► The information is as of November 11, 2016.

► Note the ROI of school athletics (found at bottom of graphic): ■higher salaries, ■2x as likely to pursue future education, ■future employment more likely & exhibiting significantly higher levels of ■leadership, ■self-confidence, and ■self-respect.

► As to the monetary cost of sports, this graphic does not seem to account for travel-ball/ club team expenses for any of the sports. Regardless, the points made still seem valid.

► Also, softball costs probably equate fairly closely to the price of baseball equipment, which is listed here as the “most expensive” sport.

MYRTLE GAMES ONLINE

Pictured, Wesley Wolverine junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA) at last season’s North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex spring games 2017.

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 ALL FANS: family, relatives, neighbors, friends need not miss an inning with online cameras set up at all six fields for the coming spring games. Catch all the action WITH SOUND (new for 2018) @ http://nmbpark.com/park-cameras Example: Click here for Field #1.

HUSTLE

FANS WILL NOT NEED A SECOND INTRODUCTION
to the hustle of Wesley Wolverine freshman
#32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA).
Photo from 2017 fall-ball practice last semester.

MULTISKILLED CATCHER

THE MULTISKILLED 
FASTPITCH CATCHER

Pulled from an article titled "The Softball Pitcher Catcher Relationship" 
by Sara Moulton at FPN (Fastpitch News).

"The role of a catcher is often times a quiet one. They crouch behind home plate in full body armor, their backs to the spectators watching, and give the pitcher as well as the infield players the signs. They spend more time on the field interacting with the opposing team’s batters and the umpire than their own team on the defensive side. They learn the strike zone and relay it to their team’s offense. They frame the pitches coming in because at one point in their life, they were told their job was to 'make their pitcher and the pitches she delivers look good.'"

From top, Wesley Wolverines behind the plate 

during last semester's 2017 fall-ball games: 

freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD), 

freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA), 

freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar

(Egg Harbor City, NJ).

TALENT, EFFORT, ATTITUDE

From front to back, Wesley Wolverines
working out at Wesley West last semester,
freshman #4 P/ UT Abbey Mayse (Cecilton, MD),
junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE),
sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD),
senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE),
freshman #32 OF Kelly Palmer (Hershey, PA),
freshman #5 UT Amanda Curry (Williamsport, MD).

FEARLESS & FOCUSED

At last year's Fall-ball game, Wesley Wolverine freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ).

PERSIST

Working out last semester Wesley Wolverine
freshman #9 OF/C Miranda Kinney (Bethlehem PA).

TEAMWORK

Wesley Wolverine freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ).

ARE YOU UNSTOPPABLE?

WILL YOU MAKE YOURSELF
UNSTOPPABLE THIS NEW YEAR?

Summary from a longer article titled “30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable” by Benjamin P. Hardy. Please CLICK HERE for the full story

"A lot of people are good at what they do. Some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable….

"1. DON’T THINK — KNOW AND ACT. “Don’t think. You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?” — Tim Grover…

"2. ALWAYS BE PREPARED so you have the freedom to act on instinct...While everyone else is relaxing, you’re practicing and perfecting...

"3. DON’T BE MOTIVATED BY MONEY OR ANYTHING EXTERNAL… You’re still going to be pushing your personal limits and giving it your all...

"4. NEVER BE SATISFIED… For you, it’s not even about the goal. It’s about the climb to see how far you can push yourself.

"5. ALWAYS BE IN CONTROL… you are in control of what you put in your body, how you spend your time and how long you stay in the zone.

"6. BE TRUE TO YOURSELF… Have the self-respect and confidence to live life on your terms. When something isn’t right in your life, change it. Immediately...

"7. NEVER LET OFF THE PRESSURE. “Pressure can bust pipes, but it also can make diamonds.” — Robert Horry...

"8. DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE… If something goes wrong — if you “fail” — you adjust and keep going….

"9. DON’T COMPETE WITH OTHERS. Make them compete with you… Competing with others makes absolutely zero sense to you. It pulls you from your authentic zone….

"10. NEVER STOP LEARNING… Your unparalleled preparation is what gives you power. No one else is willing to pay the price you’ve paid.

"11. SUCCESS ISN’T ENOUGH — IT ONLY INCREASES THE PRESSURE… Immediately following the achievement of a goal, you’re focused on your next challenge.

"12. DON’T GET CRUSHED BY SUCCESS… It’s not about this achievement, but the one after, and the one after that...

"13. COMPLETELY OWN IT WHEN YOU SCREW UP… as the leader, you own it when your team fails. Only with extreme ownership can you have complete freedom and control.

"14. LET YOUR WORK SPEAK FOR ITSELF… “deep work” is rare. It’s done by people who are focused and working while everyone else is talking. Deep work is so good it can’t be ignored.

"15. ALWAYS WORK ON YOUR MENTAL STRENGTH… Wherever your mind goes, your body follows. Wherever your thoughts go, your life follows.

"16. CONFIDENCE IS YOUR GREATEST ASSET… When you’re confident, you don’t care how many times you fail, you’re going to succeed. And it doesn’t matter how stacked the odds seem against you.

"17. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO REMIND YOU OF THE FUTURE, NOT THE PAST… expectations of those around you in large measure determines how well you perform.

Wesley Wolverine sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD).

"18. LET THINGS GO, BUT NEVER FORGET… Being unstoppable requires carrying no unnecessary mental or emotional baggage.

"19. HAVE CLEAR GOALS… According to loads of psychology research, the most motivating goals are clearly defined and time-bound. Your goals can either be focused on your behaviors… or on the outcomes you’re seeking...

"20. RESPOND IMMEDIATELY, rather than analyzing or stalling… Just do it. Train yourself to respond immediately when you feel you should do something...

"21. CHOOSE SIMPLICITY OVER COMPLICATION. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein

"22. NEVER BE JEALOUS or envious of someone else’s accomplishments. Being unstoppable means you genuinely want what’s best for everyone — even those you would consider your competitors. Jealousy and envy are the ego — which operates out of fear...

"23. TAKE THE SHOT EVERY TIME. “If I fail more than you, I win.” — Seth Godin. The only way you can become unstoppable is if you stop thinking about it.Just take the shot...

"24. DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE RESULTS OF YOUR SUCCESS. Always remain focused on what got you those results: the work….Keep practicing. Perfect your craft...

"25. THINK AND ACT 10X (i.e., operating at activity levels far beyond the normal). “When 10X is your measuring stick, you immediately see how you can bypass what everyone else is doing.” — Dan Sullivan...

"26. SET GOALS THAT FAR EXCEED YOUR CURRENT CAPABILITIES… If your goals are logical, they won’t force you to create luck. Being unstoppable means your goals challenge you to be someone more than you currently are...

"27. MAKE TIME FOR RECOVERY AND REJUVENATION… When you focus on results, rather than being busy, you’re 100 percent on when you’re working and 100 percent off when you’re not. This not only allows you to be present in the moment, but it allows you the needed time to rest and recover.

"28. START BEFORE YOU’RE READY… Most people wait… They wait until they feel “secure.” Not people who are unstoppable...

"29. IF YOU NEED PERMISSION, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T DO IT… No one will ever give you permission to live your dreams.

"30. DON’T MAKE EXCEPTIONS… The exception so many times becomes the rule."

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Wesley Wolverine senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE).

NO OFF-SEASON

From left, Wesley Wolverines
sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD) and
freshman #12 C/INF Mykayla Bird-Clahar (Egg Harbor City, NJ).

NORTH MYRTLE ACCOMMODATIONS

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH ACCOMMODATIONS

Click here for the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic homepage where the Wesley Wolverines will play the week of March 11, 2018.

Click here for the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic HOUSING at Avista Resort & Baywatch Resort.

Typically – based on past years – the team travels to North Myrtle Beach and back home again on Saturdays, tentatively March 10 and March 17, but, of course, it all depends on scheduled playing days.

Click here for the official team schedule, whose game times have not been set yet for the week of March 10. The tournament has promised to have the game days and times posted by January 10 at www.fastpitchdreams.citymax.com/Schedules.html.

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AVISTA RESORT

►Reservations

BAY WATCH RESORT

►Reservations 

See also North Myrtle Beach hotels page.

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Wesley Wolverine freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA).

DI @ MYRTLE

COASTAL CAROLINA CHANTICLEERS 
VERSUS

LOUISIANA RAGIN’ CAJUNS

SATURDAY: 1:00 PM, March 10

LOUISIANA RAGIN’ CAJUNS

SATURDAY: 3:30 PM, March 10

LOUISIANA RAGIN’ CAJUNS

SUNDAY: 12:00 NOON, March 11 

TEXAS LONGHORNS

THURSDAY: 6:00 PM, March 15

All games played at Coastal Carolina Softball Stadium - Charles Wade-John Lott Field, 965 One Landon Loop, Conway, SC 29526. NEW this year: $5.00 general admission tickets. Note: PARKING for Coastal Carolina softball is based on a first come first served basis. Visitors may be directed to designated off-site areas where a shuttle service to the game is provided.

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Wesley Wolverine junior #8
OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE).