As you may know, I am coaching Little League 9-10 age group.
We have had our first 2 practices and a third is tonight. I have 14 kids on the roster and most are of average talent with maybe 2-3 that are above average. There are 4 kids however that are very much below average. Two of them are eleven that were cut from their age group. They have never played before. The other two are 9 and 10 and have played 1 to 2 years respectively. But they look like they have never played before either.
Just as an example - These kids are literally hacking at the baseball like my 2 year old does and throwing the balls like a shotput and jumping away from the catches.
Now, don't get me wrong I am more than happy they are out there playing and I am just fine with them on the team, but I want to make sure that I do not get too advanced with the teachings so that they fall further behind. I have plenty of assistant coaches to help with the more experience kids while I give these four kids a chance to learn and not get overwhelmed.
Any suggestions on how I should work with these four? Should I take them aside and work more one on one? Or is it still beneficial to them to just get in there and work with the other kids? The thing I am afraid with this is that 1) they get further behind and 2) they get seperated as the weaker players from the other kids (which can still happen if I work one on one with them).
I guess the bottom line is that I have not had much experience with kids at such a lower level than the others. At this point I am not thinking about the games or just sticking them in left field or anything like that. I want to coach them into being descent players. And hopefully they enjoy it enough to come back next year.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
We have had our first 2 practices and a third is tonight. I have 14 kids on the roster and most are of average talent with maybe 2-3 that are above average. There are 4 kids however that are very much below average. Two of them are eleven that were cut from their age group. They have never played before. The other two are 9 and 10 and have played 1 to 2 years respectively. But they look like they have never played before either.
Just as an example - These kids are literally hacking at the baseball like my 2 year old does and throwing the balls like a shotput and jumping away from the catches.
Now, don't get me wrong I am more than happy they are out there playing and I am just fine with them on the team, but I want to make sure that I do not get too advanced with the teachings so that they fall further behind. I have plenty of assistant coaches to help with the more experience kids while I give these four kids a chance to learn and not get overwhelmed.
Any suggestions on how I should work with these four? Should I take them aside and work more one on one? Or is it still beneficial to them to just get in there and work with the other kids? The thing I am afraid with this is that 1) they get further behind and 2) they get seperated as the weaker players from the other kids (which can still happen if I work one on one with them).
I guess the bottom line is that I have not had much experience with kids at such a lower level than the others. At this point I am not thinking about the games or just sticking them in left field or anything like that. I want to coach them into being descent players. And hopefully they enjoy it enough to come back next year.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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