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Find below the latest Chalfont Softball Club news. The page is ordered with the most recent at the top.

Sunday 18 July 2010

President's Day - Sunday 8th August

Following the success of last year's President's Day, Chalfont Softball Club have decided to make this an annual event. This year the Club's President, Neil Turner, is organising the event on Sunday 8th August on Goldhill Common.


The event will comprise 3 games of softball with Flames playing Phoenix (Phoenix narrowly won this game last year, no doubt Flames will be keen to reverse this this year) and both Flames and Phoenix play Avengers (the President's invitation team). The winner of the Phoenix vs. Avengers game will win the President's Cup - Avengers will be looking to hold on to this for another year.

Watch this space for more details of the day, including start times, other planned activities and details of plans for refreshments.

If you would like to play then please contact Emma - secretary@chalfontsoftballclub.co.uk

Sunday 18 July 2010

Junior Softball at Ley Hill Primary School

We have started running a 7 week programme of junior softball at Ley Hill Primary School with the help of one of our members, Mel Parker, who is a teacher at the school. The youngsters at the school had already played some softball and we're keen to develop their skills and play a lot more.


Neil and Clare, with the help of other club members and BSUK, are running a series of 1.25 hour sessions on Saturday mornings at the school with the aim of:
  • Developing basic skills
  • Improving the kids' knowledge of the game
  • Having fun
So far we've covered catching, throwing, ground balls, fly balls and batting and the kids have had a great time competing against each other in a series of skills based games.

The kids all show huge amounts of natural talent and it's exciting for us to see the softballers of the future in action.


Monday 24 May 2010

Development Of Softball Coaching Staff

You may or may not be aware that Neil Turner and Clare Winter have been working towards their Level 2 Softball Coaching awards this spring. Following a weekend of classroom modules and two practical assessments, they were left with proving that they have run six training sessions of which four needed to show a linked progression.

Well this week they have received their coaching awards after submitting training session plans for all Chalfont's training sessions since we started training at the beginning of March.

Gaining Level 2 is quite a milestone for both Neil and Clare and the club. It now means that:

  • we have proved that all our training sessions are planned well
  • we can now comply with the Clubmark requirement that all our training sessions are run by qualified coaches
  • we now have two coaches that can (after a small payment to BSUK) be insured to run training sessions and events outside of our club - in schools and youth organisations for example or corporate softball days
  • we now have the capability to run the eight week softball programme for a group of 9 and 10 year olds over in Ley Hill during July and August

To build on this development futher, the next step would be to start helping our Level 1 coaches start working towards their Level 2, and to find some more players interested in starting (or continuing) their Level 1.

Neil and Clare would be interested in hearing from anyone in the club who would like to start getting a coaching qualification.

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