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PROFILE: MIZUNO HAWKS 16U (ILL.)
Several years ago, there was a club team called the Homer Hawks in Illinois which was owned by Dave Betcher.
At the same time, Bill Judge had a daughter in rec ball and, seeing that wasn’t the direction the family wanted to go, contacted Betcher who was interested in bringing Judge because of his baseball background which included playing at Chicago Brother Rice High School and being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 1988 MLB draft.
Mizuno Hawks Logo“Dave kept calling me to coach the team,” Judge recalls. “He knew about me and my baseball background and thought it would be a good fit. I was a bit hesitant because I really did not have a background in fastpitch softball, but my wife finally talked me into coaching with the Hawks organization. I will tell you I did have reservations because of the differences between softball and baseball.
The former baseball standout says one thing he learned quickly was that the differences between the two sports isn’t just physical.
“There are some similarities but also many differences,” he states. “I studied softball a ton, learned the nuances of the game, the short game, the speed of the game, and went to some college coaching conventions to learn more about the game.”
“One thing that always stuck out to me was something one of the coaches said at a convention: ‘Girls need to feel good to play good, which is opposite of boys in baseball where they need to play good to feel good.’”
“By listening to and learning this quote I have changed my philosophy about coaching in fastpitch softball, I used to raise my voice a lot and get animated, but that style does not fit the girls, they need someone to carry themselves professionally and talk with them, not down to them. I am still intense but I internalize and think before I say something to them.”
Judge, who had been coaching a rec team for two years, joined the Hawks and was surprised when Betcher approached him one day to take over the program.
“Dave was getting burned out and had some personal things he wanted to tend to in his life,” Judge continues. “I agreed and have been in charge of it since 2009.”
Today, the Hawks organization has seven teams in the organization: three 12U teams with two of them having all 11-year-olds, two 14U squads, which are young and have mainly 13-year-olds and two 16U teams which includes the one that Judge coaches.
- See more at: www.studentsports.com/softball/2014/01/17/daily-update-01-17-14/#sthash.Z2fOSF2h.dpuf
Take a look, just I like said before we have no BFF's here at ILsoftball.com
PROFILE: MIZUNO HAWKS 16U (ILL.)
Several years ago, there was a club team called the Homer Hawks in Illinois which was owned by Dave Betcher.
At the same time, Bill Judge had a daughter in rec ball and, seeing that wasn’t the direction the family wanted to go, contacted Betcher who was interested in bringing Judge because of his baseball background which included playing at Chicago Brother Rice High School and being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 1988 MLB draft.
Mizuno Hawks Logo“Dave kept calling me to coach the team,” Judge recalls. “He knew about me and my baseball background and thought it would be a good fit. I was a bit hesitant because I really did not have a background in fastpitch softball, but my wife finally talked me into coaching with the Hawks organization. I will tell you I did have reservations because of the differences between softball and baseball.
The former baseball standout says one thing he learned quickly was that the differences between the two sports isn’t just physical.
“There are some similarities but also many differences,” he states. “I studied softball a ton, learned the nuances of the game, the short game, the speed of the game, and went to some college coaching conventions to learn more about the game.”
“One thing that always stuck out to me was something one of the coaches said at a convention: ‘Girls need to feel good to play good, which is opposite of boys in baseball where they need to play good to feel good.’”
“By listening to and learning this quote I have changed my philosophy about coaching in fastpitch softball, I used to raise my voice a lot and get animated, but that style does not fit the girls, they need someone to carry themselves professionally and talk with them, not down to them. I am still intense but I internalize and think before I say something to them.”
Judge, who had been coaching a rec team for two years, joined the Hawks and was surprised when Betcher approached him one day to take over the program.
“Dave was getting burned out and had some personal things he wanted to tend to in his life,” Judge continues. “I agreed and have been in charge of it since 2009.”
Today, the Hawks organization has seven teams in the organization: three 12U teams with two of them having all 11-year-olds, two 14U squads, which are young and have mainly 13-year-olds and two 16U teams which includes the one that Judge coaches.
- See more at: www.studentsports.com/softball/2014/01/17/daily-update-01-17-14/#sthash.Z2fOSF2h.dpuf