Free Girls Softball Practice Drills
July 9th, 2009 | 
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Drill 1 - Soccer Ball (Softball Hitting)
Purpose: To learn how to drive through the ball.
Procedure: Place a soccer ball on a T. If the T is an open tube, place a small bathroom plunger in the T to hold the ball or use a traffic cone and a plunger. The batter hits the soccer ball hard off the T. If she does not drive through the soccer ball, it will not explode off the bat.
Drill 2 - Football Up and Down Purpose: To develop the agility and quickness to escape a rundown.
Procedure: In staggered rows, players assume well-balanced positions as if between bases. The coach faces the players and gives hand signals to indicate the direction in which players move. The signals are right, left, down, and up. Players shuffle to the side on right and left signals. On the down signal they quickly hit the ground. Players should be absolutely flat. On the up signal they get up quickly to be ready to go again. In a rundown, players use the prone position to trip the defensive player.
Drill 3 - Timed Throws (Softball Catchers)
Purpose: To evaluate quickness of release and speed of the throw.
Procedure: The catcher catches a pitched ball in full gear so that the drill is gamelike. The coach starts a stopwatch when the ball enters the glove and stops it when the ball is released or when the ball reaches the shortstop’s glove at second base. Good times for the ball to go from glove to glove for college catchers are between 1.65 and 1.75 seconds. High school catchers should make the throw in less than 2 seconds.
Drill 4 - Wall Drill (Softball Pitching)
Purpose: To develop proper rotation of the arm.
Procedure: The pitcher throws imaginary pitches using a wall to keep the arm straight in a perfect circle. She stands perpendicular to a wall with the pitching arm close to the wall and about four inches away. The pitcher uses the full pitching motion (including the stride and the opening of the hips), keeping the arm straight and in tight so that it does not contact the wall. The pitcher walks and moves down the wall throwing imaginary pitches.
Drill 5 - Moving to the Base (Softball Infield)
Purpose: To improve quickness and range moving to first base.
Procedure: The first baseman takes a position halfway to home as if fielding a bunt. On the coach’s command “go,” she sprints to the base (turning inward to the diamond), finds the base, takes the receiving position, catches an imaginary ball, and tags the base. The player repeats the drills, moving ever closer to home to increase the distance and push herself to improve quickness in getting to the base.
By: Marc Dagenais
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I have long time played baseball, but now i am a certificated baseball coach. I agre with your article, you provided some good points for later discussions.