On Saturday morning the Boiling Springs softball team held their first ever youth softball camp held for ages 8-12 at the Bulldogs softball complex that included fielding and hitting instruction along with pitching and catching instruction as well.
"We sent the word out to the youth organizations, because we have a great youth organization in this area, that we wanted to introduce the girls to our program," said Bulldogs head coach Randy Piazza. "We wanted to introduce them to how we do things here with Boiling Springs softball while also getting to work on some fundamentals." The instructors for the Bulldogs consisted of current coaches, players, and former players that have played at the college level. Piazza said that they want to get the kids introduced to the culture at Boiling Springs and let them get to know the current players so they'll have players to look up to as they move closer to getting their own chance at playing for the team. "One reason we had a lot of our current players here is because we wanted these younger girls to see that's where they will be in a few years," said Piazza. "We wanted to give them people to look up to and hopefully inspire the kids to come out to our games once the season starts. It's about building up our culture from a younger age." As part of building that culture the Bulldogs wanted to give the younger kids a chance to play on the field that they hope to be competing on when they get older along with giving them a "This is like the big stage for them because it's where the big girls play," said Piazza. "These girls on our team are the ones they want to become and some of these girls are eight years old and in eight more years will be the ones competing on this field for the high school team." Piazza says that this camp isn't just a one year thing as they want to make it a yearly event that will build the culture with Bulldogs softball program for the years to come. "I absolutely think this will be a yearly event," said Piazza. "It gives us a chance to get to know the players coming up in the community a little more and just build those relationships. We want all these players to keep coming back and to just build this camp into a yearly event for the players. Next year we hope to be able to add even more age groups and just keep building the softball culture in the Boiling Springs community." Comments are closed.
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