
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 student-athletes with high character, a strong work ethic, a serious approach to academics, and have college level softball skills.
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.
To be successful on the field, we will have:
1. Student-athletes that put the good of team before themselves.
2. Highly skilled pitchers.
3. Fundamentally sound defensive skills and schemes.
4. An opportunistic offense built on high on-base percentage, situational
hitting, and intelligent
base-running.
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.
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 programs designed to ensure positive and
sustainable results. The performance programs are broken down into five phases phases:
Fall season, off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season. The overriding theme to
each phase is improvement.
Environment is key. NIACC offers a new Rec Center, which opened in 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.
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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