HS career⬇️
⚾️ 3-yr letterman
⚾️8.2 playoff innings pitched 9K, 2 runs/ FB 90
⚾️3B 2025 6A state semifinal team
⚾️2025 Marcus played toughest schedule in TX, according to MaxPreps
🏈All-district QB-2,100 yards, playoff team
@JeffSherman26@thepackbaseball@FiveToolTexas
Dane Parlin (@dane_parlin) makes the sweet backhand at third and fires over to first to end the inning. #FiveToolDefense
@thepackbasebal (TX) 2025
#FiveToolFestival
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Another elite preseason with @thepackbaseball in the books! 9 weeks of hard work capped off with Round Rock Challenge 2025! 🐺💪
Congrats to:
⭐️ of the year - Cullen Osterloh
RRC25 Champs - Gladiators
RRC MVP - Dane Parlin
Now let the real the fun begin!! 💣 ⛽️ 🏴☠️
Hitting the holiday break in stride! Love the work that @thepackbaseball and @marcus_softball have been putting in! One more phase to go.
S/o to our last ⭐️’s of 2024!
⚾️: Ethan, Bryce, Michael, Dane
🥎: Averie, Kayla
Enjoy the week off!! 🎄🎅
HS 🏈 is over. Had a blast watching this “baseball kid” compete, especially last year against one of the toughest schedules in TX. Your character, leadership, and grit will take you far. Keep running into the 🔥 @dane_parlin
Final ‘24 summer stats. Led my team in batting average and fielding percentage.
Batting - PA-60/ AB- 52/.385 avg/ 3B-2/2B-5/.933 OPS
Fielding – 1.000%, error-free summer
@thepackbaseball@StixBaseballTX@JeffSherman26
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Recently, I have been asked by several parents, “What do I need to do to prep my kid for kindergarten?” Typically, they anticipate my response to be centered around what they need to know academically, but I think there are skills more important than that. It isn’t about knowing all of their letters and sounds to be kindergarten ready. If they do, GREAT. They are ahead of the game. But the more important thing is that they learn social and independent skills that will help them be successful in the classroom.
🔺Help them learn to say their full name when someone asks them (not their nickname).
🔹Help them learn to ask for help.
🔺Help them learn how to speak to other people who are not family members.
🔹 Eat dinner together. At a table. With the tv off. ➡️ They will learn about table manners, how to stay in their seat an entire meal, develop vocabulary through conversation, and benefit from quality time.
🔺Help them learn how to compete a task and work all the way through until they complete it.
🔹Help them learn how to wait patiently. 🤪 Maybe they are waiting in line while friends go to the bathroom, or maybe someone is needing to talk to their teacher. Waiting is a hard thing for littles!
🔺 Read books every night. ➡️ Their world will be enlarged, they will develop new vocabulary, and they will benefit from quality time.
🔹 Help them learn to share.
🔺 Help them sharpen taking care of their basic needs by themselves - using the bathroom, washing their hands, blowing their nose.
🔹Tell them no.
🔺Teach them nursery rhymes. There is so much research behind this and how it supports brain development.
🔹Help them understand it is ok to make mistakes.
🔺Help them practice putting things in and taking things out of their backpack. Their teacher will thank you! 🤪
🔹Help them learn to follow two step directions. For example, “Take off your shoes and hang up your jacket.”
🔺Help them learn to sit and wait without having to be entertained. Can they sit and wait without having to be handed a device?
There is so much more than academics that goes into helping a kid be “kindergarten ready”. Social and independent skills are life skills! If you aren’t practicing some of these things regularly, give yourself some grace. And if your child is older than KG age and cannot do some of these things yet, it isn’t too late! I am still working on these in my home too! We are about 5 weeks away from the start of school. The more they are able to do independently, the more successful they will be!
Giving kids the opportunity to develop their emotions, compassion, and social skills is one of the greatest gifts we can give kids to prepare them for this thing called “life”.
Let’s go!