Softball

Mission Statement

 

The NIACC Softball staff will recruit, develop, and place people that will give us an opportunity to win each game we play.

 

We will recruit NCAA D-I and D-II caliber athletes that are passionate about softball and serious about academics.

 

We will develop our student-athletes through a year-around program of physical and mental skill building that will be applied to, both, their academic and athletic endeavors.

We will work to help place our sophomore athletes in a 4-year college or university that best fits their academic and athletic goals.

 

Coaching Philosophy

 

To be successful on the field, we will have:

 

1. Highly skilled pitchers.
2. Fundamentally sound defensive skills and schemes.
3. An opportunistic offense built on high on-base percentage, situational hitting, and intelligent

     base-running.
4. Student-athletes that put the good of team before themselves.

 

Academic Development

 

Because time is taken away for softball development and games, we give time back for academic success. Trojan softball players are expect to adhere to our system of academic development. We require our student-athletes to submit bi-monthly academic progress reports and attend NIACC's Student Learning Center each week. These efforts and our players' grades are closely monitored.

 

Physical Development

 

NIACC softball players invest themselves in year-around skill development and strength & conditioning for enhanced performance and injury prevention on the field. In doing so our student-athletes adhere to individually designed programs to ensure positive and sustainable results. The performance programs are broken down into three phases: off-season, pre-season, and in-season. The overriding theme to each phase is improvement.

Environment is key. NIACC offers a brand new Rec Center, opening the Fall of 2008, and one of the top community college strength and conditioning facilities in the country. NIACC upgrades its facilities each year to keep up with the demands of a collegiate athletic program.

 

Schedule

 

We have a 20 game Fall schedule against 2-year and 4-year colleges around the Midwest. This prepares us for the competitive 50+ game schedule in Spring. In early March we travel to beautiful Cocoa, Florida to play 12 of our regular season games during our week-long stay. Our regular season concludes in early May with the Region XI tournament. The winner of which goes to the NJCAA World Series.

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