NEUQUA VALLEY BASEBALL
Baseball is one of the world’s greatest games, and as coaches, it provides us the opportunity to teach our players to individually excel within a team concept. As coaches, baseball also provides us a unique opportunity to teach life skills using baseball as an avenue. Our first concern, always, involves the best interest of the young men under our care. These are ten lessons our players should learn from their baseball experience:
1. Integrity
2. Teachable Spirit (ABC’s) 3. Academic Responsibility 4. Confidence 5. Accountability-Work Habits 6. Discipline 7. Mental Toughness-Competitiveness 8. Pride and Humility 9. Leadership & Service 10. Selflessness Our job is to teach the players how to play the game fundamentally, get them to believe in themselves, inspire them to work hard at the game, and teach them how to compete. As coaches, if we concern ourselves with developing people, this will go hand-in-hand with winning games. We believe in playing hard and coaching hard with enthusiasm and energy. We challenge each player to improve in some aspect of the game everyday. We believe that we must allow our players the opportunity to experience both success and failure and reach positively to each. Even though baseball involves more failures than other games, the failures we experience are acceptable if we can learn from that failure and enhance the possibility of success the next time we meet that situation. Baseball is a game, and games are designed to be competitive and enjoyable. Baseball is also a very useful tool to build life skills in players of all ages. Having fun playing baseball comes from knowing we ALL have done our very best! Robin Renner – Hall of Fame Coach, Neuqua Valley 1997-2018 |