Coaching Tools (Softball Excellence) Educational Package Now Available to NFCA Youth Coach Members

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Fastpitch Coaches association is pleased to announce that member coaches in the high school, travel ball and youth categories will receive EXCLUSIVE educational materials from Softball Excellence, a premier softball education and training company.

The first-of-its-kind coaching package, which includes practice plans, drills, a hitting drills eBook and a team production package, was specially produced for the NFCA by Softball Excellence. This unique package is targeted specifically at the travel ball, high school and youth coaches and will only be available to NFCA members.

“The NFCA wanted to provide a special and unique package for our valued high school, travel ball and youth coaches,” said Interim Executive Director Carol Bruggeman. “This educational package will be a positive benefit for our members.”

For more information about this new benefit, please click on the COACHING TOOLS link located in the main menu. The collaboration with Softball Excellence extends for three years. Each year, eligible members will receive new sets of practice plans, drills and team production packages.

Cindy Bristow founded Softball Excellence almost a decade ago, and her company offers innovative training products, creative instruction, and performance solutions to the softball community. Her website extends the anyplace-anytime convenience of the internet to softball coaches, players and parents all over the world. Softball Excellence has the world’s largest online repository of on-demand softball instruction available to athletes and coaches at all skill and experience levels, including drill videos, skill videos, practice plans and online clinics.

“The most exciting thing about the package we’ve created for the NFCA is that it is something all high school, travel ball and youth coaches need, and that they can IMMEDIATELY use,” Bristow said. “By creating a three-year series of practices and drills, we are helping coaches not only organize their practices, but also help them immediately improve. This partnership with the NFCA includes a huge collection of practice plans and drills that will give every high school, travel ball and youth coach a library of interchangeable options to ensure their practices are fast-paced & fresh, while allowing them to select practices that focus on either skill development, competition or game strategy.

“We recognize youth coaches don’t have tons of time in their day to create detailed practice plans so we’ve put the tools together for them. Every single coach who takes advantage of this NFCA offer will receive a TON of practices they can use for years, as well as a TON of drills they can plug into any of these various practices.”