Hey Avon Lake Youth and High School players…This is a great opportunity! I have personally attended a conference with Austin Wasserman, and he backs his philosophy with Science and is a leader in arm strength and development. So lucky he is in the area.
The Avon Lake High School Alumni Softball Game , scheduled for Sunday July 6, has been canceled. We did not have enough participants for two teams. Watch for updates in the future!
Negativity spreads fast.
And if you don’t address it, it will cost you.
Here are 7 ways to neutralize negativity and build team-first energy.
Every coach needs this reminder.
Calling all Alumni! Join us Sunday, July 6, 2025 at 2 pm in the afternoon. All Avon Lake Softball Alumni Players are welcome. Here is the registration link...
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Come reminisce with teammates. We will be playing a 7 inning single game with umpires.
“We don't become you. You become us."
Great teams don’t adapt to individuals.
Individuals adapt to the standard.
The culture is built.
The standard is set.
You either buy in, or you don’t belong.
“The standard is the standard.” – Mike Tomlin
1. No excuses.
2. No shortcuts.
3. No compromise.
The standard doesn’t adjust to you; you rise to meet it.
Championship teams don’t just set standards.
They live them, every day.
Mike Tomlin said, “This is a man versus himself battle.”
Great players know this truth…
The ultimate competitive battle you have is always with yourself.
The great ones get better every day.
They WIN the day.
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PLAYERS: When you become a "whatever the team needs" type player then you become a great teammate and your team's culture is strengthened. Great teams have great teammates.
Being a "Sports Parent" is no easy task.
It comes with its own set of challenges, emotions, and balancing acts.
As a parent, your role is crucial in shaping your child's sports experience.
Here are 8 steps to becoming an MVP (Most Valuable Parent):
The “Nothing Speech”
Saban GOLD🥇
“If you wake up in the morning and feel entitled, what would that get you?”
Nothing.
- Focus on being your best
- Everything is earned.
- No entitlement.
Get to Work.
No Deposit - No Return!
"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those.
The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized.
You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you.
There are 2 categories of things in this world:
1) Things that are up to you
2) Things that are not up to you
Which category does your reputation sit in?
Your reputation is not up to you.
I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things.
What's up to you?
How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you.
Here's how I know that:
You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control.
I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words?
You!
You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way.
When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control.
We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."
Peyton Manning on Leadership.
"It is not just about you…the best teams I played on, the best players practiced the hardest."
Winning FOR each other is contagious.
It is what being a great TEAMMATE is all about.
🎥 Peyton Manning/Notre Dame Football