Volume I No. 10
December 2011
Glory News & Notes – Texas Glory gets 1st 2014 College Commitment in North Texas! Glory hosts 3 college exposure events at Craig Ranch. Coach Naudin selected as adidas Futures coach again. adidas Futures tryouts scheduled for Dec. 10 @ Craig Ranch, 9am Glory Alum News and Notes: In the spring of 2012, there will be 70+ Glory Alum playing college softball Glory’s Team SpotLight – 2002 Glory Red (http://www.eteamz.com/2002texasglory) Led by Head Coach Scott Hale & assistants, John Jobson & Jack Sims. The team hails from Princeton, Mesquite, Crandall, Forney, as well as Ft. Worth. 02 TX Glory Red was formed in August 2010. This year they have played 16 events. The new team has put in a lot of hard work during practices and at home. This dedication to continually improve, has led to success in a very short time period. All of the coaches continue to improve as well pushing out of their comfort zones..... Each girl is LEARNING the game of softball and that is not all about wins, but about becoming stronger players now with focus on the future. With the shared knowledge in the organization, the coaches are able to use techniques and strategies from older teams and incorporate them with this team so that our young ladies will be prepared for what lies ahead. Nov. 2011 Commitments: Tori Charters, 2013, OF, Keller TX, Keller High, La. Tech Kacie Brann, 2012, P, Aledo TX, Aledo High, Angelo St. Univ Mallory Foster, 2013, C/OF, Burleson TX, Burleson HS, UTA 2012/2013/2014 Commitments: 32. Total (since May 2000): 126 Our Team’s Results/Accomplishments 11/13/11 – 2000 Texas Glory finish 3rd in Grand Prairie 11/13/11 – ’03/’04 Glory is 3rd in Del City OK Mental Skills Tip of the Month: Routines: LEARNING ‐ Make Learning Most Important. If your top goal is to be the best you can be in softball, you will maximize your chances to achieve all your other softball goals. What does it take to approach potential? This lofty goal doesn't require that you perform perfectly today; it requires that you learn as much as possible today about how to give your best effort in all the performances in your future. Three questions: 1. Do you perform better with a positive attitude than a negative one? 2. Isn't adversity inevitable? 3. If yes to both, then isn't staying positive through adversity going to be a critical skill for you to develop into the best athlete you can be? Here's how to do it: make learning most important! Adversity is good because it usually provides information about something that isn't working. Seek out that information and when it isn't immediately apparent, have patience and faith! Even when we aren’t able to learn from adversity, which is rare, it provides us with an opportunity to practice dealing with adversity. We do this successfully by controlling our attitudes and emotions with the positive self‐talk that comes from an optimistic explanatory style. When you make learning more important than achievement today, you are able to adopt the scientist's mindset that there is no such thing as "failure,“ only outcomes that can be avoided in the future by making effective adjustments. Learn what to repeat from your "successes" and what to change from your "failures." But remember, learning doesn't happen automatically. You have to pay attention, looking for patterns and details that have eluded you in the past. Realistically, this is too much trouble for most people, but since you are committed to being the best you can be at your sport, it's certainly not too much for you. You know that to get what most people won't ever get, you'll have to do things that most people won't do. This includes having the thought, “adversity is good!” Constantly ask questions, including: • What was I trying to do? • What happened? • Why? • What do I want to try to do the next time that I'm in a similar situation? • How can I do that? We are not born with the information needed to formulate the best plan of attack for any situation. We must seek it out if we are going to have a chance to approach our potential. We must be open to the possibility that our old map of life that tells us how to get to where we want to go probably has a few mistakes on it. Also, this map is certainly lacking in some of the details and distinctions needed to traverse challenging obstacles, and there is no more challenging path than trying to be the best you can be at something. Here are two big 'ifs:' If you know what you want, and if you have both the motivation and courage to go and get it, then you are well on your way getting what you want. That "way" equals learning and applying what you learn. Our ability to get what we want in life is no different from our rate of learning and applying what we learned. Know your job and do your job! Aaron Weintraub, www.coachtraub.com Upcoming Camp/Clinic Schedule: Dec 10th – adidas Futures tryouts at Craig Ranch. 9am Dec 17th – OK St. Hitting & Pitching camp sponsored by NTFCA @ Extra Innings Links: www.texasglory.com, www.nfca.org, http://www.facebook.com/texasglory, http://twitter.com/texasglory
