CoachJV

Had nothing to do with teaching them to throw lets give credit where credit is due/ summer league coaches and pitching coaches and dads. I was blessed with 3 great young ladies that could throw. They are 8 great teams in the state and my girls are going to have fun and enjoy the moment and play hard and what happens , happens. Dont make it know more than what it is . 8 teams that have worked hard and are reaping what has been sowed. there are many more teams that should be here as well !Alltheway2013 thanks for the comment but the praises go to the players of all 8 teams.Remember the moment because it is here and gone!

Well said Coach. But as a former parent I wanted to say Good Luck and Great Job. I have said it before and I will say it again I am glad my daughter played for you for the last 4 years and you, and all of your players deserve the praise and success.

Teaching the game, how to throw this pitch or that pitch might have come from some pitching coach or camp, but the greatist compliment I can give you is about something else. It is the thing's you DIDN'T teach her.

You didn't teach her the game was more important than her faith and family.

You didn't teach her that her success is only of her doing, and not have anything to do with her teamates.

But most of all, even though it was not the best thing for wins and loses when mine was injured, you told me you were shutting her down to prevent her from hurting herself worse and that probably saved her career.

I don't know if it's coming out that way but that is the highest compliment I can give you.

I don't know if you will win it or not but I know you deserve to and I hope you do.

Good Luck Lady Raiders!

JV

well, i am not sure there is sarcasm throughout the ENTIRE quote, but i'll take your word for it. i'm glad you cleared that up quickly--i feel better already. i should have known that you wouldn't be stupid enough to think that ALL umpires are bad.

Not to speak for Pedo, but I took it he was speaking to the "syndrome" all humans have of we "forget" the 100 calls we agree with, but fixate on the one that we didn't.

Great game on all sides.

Thanks!

That's off Exit 111 on I-24, which is Highway 55 (McMinnville, Tulluhoma exit). Turn south toward Tullahoma, and take the first right into the park. It's North Waite St.

The High School is south on Hwy 55 about 3 miles. The ball field is behind the school.

I was glad to do it, I appologize it took a little time in between to post the scores when we played. We had great weather for the tournament, with the exception of Monday. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year.

Did you guys post the All Tournament team anywhere? Some that were not there when it was announced were asking.

Coffee County Spring Classic will be held April 29 & 30. Max. 24 teams. Information will be sent out after Labor Day. Contact Coach Floyd @ 931-409-0752 or twfloyd@msn.com

David Lipscomb

Greenbrier

Marshall Co.

Cornersville

Ravenwood

Shelbyville

Bolton

Marion Co

Hendersonville

Warren Co.

Independence

Forrest

Brentwood

May want to check but I believe Bri Blanco from Maryville is going to Georgia

 

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Heather Montgomery - Beech High School 2012 - Lipscomb

Taylor Harris - East Hamilton High School 2012 - Southern Illinois

Katie Henderson - Silverdale Baptist Academy 2012 - University of Kentucky

These have "committed"...they are 2012's.....can't "sign" their NLI until next November. This thread was all signings of this years 2011 seniors.

Just wanted you guys to know why they haven't been added to the master list.

Congrats anyway and well worth mentioning. All good kids and hard workers. They will do well.

Coach JV Goodpasture has 4 going to division I

Paige Neely, Austin Peay, OVC Divion I

Brittany Toney, Southern Illinois Edwardsville, OVC Division I (recently moved up from DII)

McKenzie Ledding, Southern Illinois Carbondale, Missouri Valley Conference Division I

Cheyanne Knepper, University @ Buffalo New York State, Mid American Conference Division I

My bad nursecass...you are correct...I missed SIU-E because they were not D-1 in 2010...or they may have been but it was their first year in D1. My apologies to Brit on that one...maybe she won't hit me when she sees me at the park.)))

From what I see they are going to be strong and will help the OVC be a stronger conference.

J,

I think you would agree that Coach Michael Connell (Worth organization) has had no less than 7 in just this class, by my count, on some of his teams for no less than one tournament and certainly a lot more would have benefited from his knowledge, tireless instruction and selfless promotion. He should be a D1 coach somewhere by now, which means some ADs are missing the boat.

I TOTALLY agree.

Slow day at work...I sorted these by those going to D1 schools....per the list.

 

 

3 GOODPASTURE

3 SODDY DAISY

2 COFFEE CO

2 LAWRENCE CO

 

 

Congratulations to these young ladies and their families. Also congratulations to the coaches, both H.S. and travel ball that helped these girls achieve their dreams. It takes a lot of commitment and effort to get to this level.

I did do a sort on this data to see what schools had multiple kids signed. I know travel ball is where they get seen, but it is good data.

Thoughts?

5 LAWRENCE CO

4 GOODPASTURE

3 RIVERDALE

3 SODDY DAISY

2 COFFEE CO

2 EAST ROBERTSON

2 JOHNSON CO

2 KARNS

2 MT. JULIET

Welcome Brentwood

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COFFEE COUNTY SPRING CLASSIC WILL BE HELD APRIL 24 & 25 IN MANCHESTER, TN. 4 GAME GUARANTEE/ 3 POOL AND SINGLE ELIMINATION. 200.00 ENTRY FEE, GREAT FIELDS. IF INTERESTED CONTACT TERRY FLOYD 931-409-0752. 1 1/2 DRIVE FROM HUNTSVILLE.LIMITED TO 24 TEAMS

Welcome David Lipscomb

Welcome Greenbrier

Add Marshall Co. and Cornersville

Welcome Ravenwood

Add Shelbyville

Add Bolton,Marion Co. and Hendersonville

Welcome Warren Co

Welcome Independence High School

Add Forrest

Welcome Brentwood

*imitates game show buzzer* Pendergrast signed with Trevecca. I was at the signing on Tuesday.

Yep,

There must have been a late change on that one.

Great post! I hope the list continues to grow. My daughter is on the list and I was just curious where you found the info. And also, if I were to hear of any other signees would you want them passed along?

 

Here is the link to her news article:

http://crossville-chronicle.com/localsports/x1364881396/Lauren-Mathews-inks-softball-scholarship-with-Bryan-College

Add:

Carter Mansolino Dickson Co. UT- Martin

Brittany Pendergrast Riverdale UT- Martin

 

This is a listing of the top 50 Division I All-Academic Teams. For a youung lady with no REAL "Pro Option" for softball players, this is the most important thing to me. Hat's off to Tennessee Tech for coming in at #7 in the nation.

 

 

http://www.nfca.org/pagebank/?id=1693

 

Division I All-Academic Teams

 

 

Rank School Head Coach GPA

1 Robert Morris Craig Coleman 3.580

2 Bowling Green St. Shannon Salsburg 3.571

3 South Carolina Upstate Chris Hawkins 3.566

4 Drake Rich Calvert 3.535

5 Campbell Drew Peterson 3.520

6 Penn St. Robin Petrini 3.517

7 Tennessee Tech Tory Acheson 3.514

8 Binghamton Michelle Burrell 3.488

9 Central Michigan Margo Jonker 3.485

10 Harvard Jenny Allard 3.480

11 Mississippi St. Jay Miller 3.478

12 Jacksonville Amanda Lehotak 3.475

13 Indiana St. Brenda Coldren 3.456

14 Eastern Michigan Karen Baird 3.430

15 Western Illinois Holly Van Vlymen 3.414

16 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Sandy Montgomery 3.410

16 Iona Veronica Rivera 3.410

18 Kentucky Rachel Lawson 3.404

19 Eastern Illinois Kim Schuette 3.400

20 Stanford John Rittman 3.397

21 Alabama Patrick Murphy 3.390

22 DePaul Eugene Lenti 3.381

23 Providence Kerri Jacklets 3.380

23 Florida Tim Walton 3.380

25 Radford Mickey Dean 3.379

26 Tennessee-Martin Donley Canary 3.371

27 Kent St. Karen Linder 3.368

28 Toledo Tarrah Beyster 3.362

29 Cornell Dick Blood 3.357

30 Gardner-Webb Tom Cole 3.354

31 Southern Illinois Kerri Blaylock 3.353

32 Lipscomb Kristin Ryman 3.350

33 Tennessee Ralph & Karen Weekly 3.340

34 Texas-El Paso Kathleen Rodriguez 3.337

35 Mercer Mike Raynor 3.336

36 Youngstown St. Brian Campbell 3.320

37 South Alabama Becky Clarke 3.319

38 Baylor Glenn Moore 3.309

39 Marshall Shonda Stanton 3.306

40 New Mexico St. Kathy Rodolph 3.305

41 Louisiana-Monroe Rosemary Holloway-Hill 3.298

42 Jacksonville St. Jane McGinnis 3.293

43 Bucknell Heather Rakosik 3.292

44 Illinois St. Melinda Fishcer 3.290

45 Indiana-Purdue, Fort Wayne Amy Tudor 3.289

46 Kansas Megan Smth 3.284

47 Northern Iowa Ryan Jacobs 3.282

48 Arizona St. Clint Myers 3.279

49 South Florida Ken Eriksen 3.273

50 Houston Baptist Mary Ellen Hall 3.269

---- Player --------- High School ---------------College

 

Good posting Big Joe,

Please keep these updated as more come in and congratulations ladies for a job well done.

 

I had one of the parents of a younger girl tell me the other day they were going to take their daughter to a different high school because at the high school she is currently zoned for, the kids don't get scholarships to the "big" schools. Maybe my response, restated here, will save someone some money and some time.

First off, most of these girls on this list that chose "smaller schools" had interest from "bigger schools" as well. I guess we can expect a great increase in enrollment at Cornersville now that Haley Fagan has commited to UT...I think my buddy David will be the first to tell you that travel ball and the trips to ASA Nationals are what got Haley seen by Tennessee, not High School ball.

When my daughter was starting to get some interest from schools and started thinking about her choices, we sat down and had a long talk about what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. I asked her what she wanted to make a career of and she told me she wanted to be a Doctor. I asked her to go on the internet and look at the roster page of what ever teams she was interested in, and try to find schools that had juniors or seniors with declared majors of "Pre-Med" or "Biology", etc.....She came back with a big dissapointed look and some bad news...she didn't find much in the SEC. In fact she found where 2 starters from Tennessee that had played on the World Series team had transfered and that they had said the reason for their transfer was that they wanted to go to a school that they could take the classes they wanted and graduate in 4 years. One was a "Pre-Pharmacy" major and the other was "Pre-Dentistry" I think.

We sat down again and I told her, she had a choice to make...I told her, if you want to be a softball coach, pick out the SEC team you think has the best chance of getting back to the World Series and start thinking about walking on or doing whatever you need to do to play for them. Email them or call them and tell them you are coming to their school and you will carry the water bucket if that is what they need , you just want to be on their team. You will get a coaching job by being able to put that team name on your resume.

I told her the other choice is, that if the most important thing to you is the academics, you need to contact the best academic school you can find and tell them you are coming to their school and see what they can offer, if anything. I told her my suggestion was to look for a competetive program that would give her a chance to play and also let her take the classes she needed to take to get the degree she wanted. It's not that she couldn't do it at a bigger school, but it is a LOT harder.

 

The point of this is....help your kids make good choices....they don't need to pick a college because they have a great football team, or because it is a great party school. They need to pick a college because it will get them the education they need to have a better life. Similarly, help them make a good choice with where they are playing high school ball or even middle school ball. School ball to me is just practice. Practice 5 days a week throwing the ball, hitting, etc.

We made the decision to play middle school ball when it was not popular....we stayed at home to play high school ball. We took the money we saved and played the best travel ball we could because that's where the kids get seen.....not high school ball.

Good luck to all these ladies and the more to come. Get your education ladies. That is what is most important from this.

These games are hard to really judge. Some teams use the Fall to look at new players in key spots, some teams are set and you will see pretty much the same team that will be starting this Spring. Unless the coaches decide to go starters on starters they really don't mean much as far as wins and losses. However, they mean plenty when it comes to seeing what they came do on the College Level for the new players. MTSU plays Lipscomb Saturday at Lipscomb.

Sounds like Caralisa Connell did well at Louisville.

http://www.uoflsports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/092510aaa.html

I would start this in the college section but I am afraid it would not be seen....

Maybe if we get a little interest going we can move it there....

How are the college fall ball games going? Any reports? Any scores?

I heard Trevecca had a big win over UT Martin last weekend.

How did MTSU, etc. do.

If they are already playing at a JC they are already signed/committed to that school. The team was wearing the "signed/committed" bands. And it was no secret that they were Junior College players. Most everybody knew that.

LOL...it doesn't have to be a secret for me not to know...lol. I stay in the dark....That is good to know and it explains why the coach from Wallace State was so interested in them. Like I said before it was a good tournament I thought...good competition and I feel good that our two losses were against the number one and number two teams there. Wins and trophys are nice but it is far better to get the experience and learn to play better ball for what lies down the road. I am just glad mine gets another year of this and another year of high school ball before she has to go off to college.

Thanks for the info.

Not about Trophies or Bragging rights!!! I'm sure that is the case, but when I just read they beat a team in CLARKSVILLE 17-0 because they said they are Gold in name only and the other team dropped out, I have to question the reason they are playing there to start with. They have very talented players who need to see the best teams around to continue to get better. From what I heard they ran into Gold level pitching this weekend and it didn't go well. If these girls had seen it all year it would have been different I'm sure and would have helped them get ready for College without a doubt!!!! Unless they they won't be batting in College.

Forget about Clarksville, every good team plays teams that you would rather not have to play....it doesn't help either team...but that happens. I am sure we would not have made that trip...and like Michael said it was a short notice thing...if we had known what kind of competition was there I don't think we would have gone.

Early in the year we had to make a decision as a team what tournaments we were going to. We did that in an open meeting. Like I have said before on this board, given the same information, people make the same decisions. I would have voted the same way I did all over again...and I will tell you why....we have played good competition....and there is no doubt in my mind that my kid has gotten better. From what I see they have all gotten better.

From what I see posted on the TN Exposure web site, "Little Sister must have beat "Big Sister" in the battle of the Renfroe's to get to the championship and that doesn't suprise me. Maybe someone can give us a rundown on how it wound up....but I can tell you this...."Little Siter" had it going on in the game against us. She did not look like the same kid we saw last fall. If she keeps throwing like that Tennessee is going to have a very good year next year with the two of them throwing.

I am going to have to keep this short and get off here...but I want to say a couple of things out of an obligation I think I have to parents of younger players that read these boards. Years ago some of the old timers here would email me and answer questions and that helped me to help my child. I am just trying to pass that on to the next group so they can in turn pass it on to others.

Before I start, let me say that when I talk about "other coaches" I am putting myself into that same group. I didn't know any better...and others don't

One thing is I see "other coaches" go to exposure tournaments and not play all their kids. I have watched Michael get in this rotation thing and no matter what happens he would stick to it. Very rarely have I seen him do otherwise. Chasing an ASA berth would have required him to sit someone...and that is not what he has been about. He has been about getting kids seen, getting them better and playing good competition. I like that.

Second thing is rotating pitchers. He has been rotating pitchers pretty much every 2 innnigs no matter what the situation. I have heard some people complain about that and you can debate that, but frankly I like it. You could debate does it help a pitcher, hurt a pitcher, help/hurt the opposing team? I don't know...I could argue all of that...but I tell you what it does do. It makes them learn to warm up quick. It makes them learn to go to the mound sometimes without their best stuff.

I could go on but I am out of time. The common thread that I see is that he is doing what is best for his kids. The times he has gotten on to his kids, he has been right...and he is being a lot easier on them than the college coaches they are going to play for will be.

Like I said before, mine has gotten better. Far better than she would have playing for other coaches, (remember that includes me) and that is all I am looking for.

Well I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here, but what kind of "exposure" are they trying to get???? Aren't they all signed to D1 full rides???

A few girls are not...he is trying to get the ones that are not committed or signed, seen by colleges....plus trying to give the girls that are signed or committed the opportunity to play good competition.

From what I have seen it has all been about the girls and not the trophies or the bragging rights.....and I like that.

CV threw A LOT today and did a magnificent job! Had the best hit of the day in our 2 games. She's even perfected a brand-new pitch - to me, since we ain't been together in a while - I've personally given the name of 'the wicked'...since our other 2011 pitcher already owns 'the big nasty.' Screwed more than a couple of girls in the ground today and made me want to say to 'em as they walked back to the dugout with their heads down, 'you forgot your shoes!' (you know, 'cause they about swung outta their shoes 'cause they swung so hard; if you don't get it, sorry...anyway...). But, I knew that would make some daddy's mad, so I didn't say it...but, I wanted to! Those pitches always make me lol.

I enjoyed seeing Ms. Connell back on the mound today after her rehab. The 6 innings she pitched were just dominating. That young lady has very bright future ahead of her. I know she struck one kid out twice but the ump wouldn't call it....lol. I am sure they are good umps but honsetly, the one inning that Jackie Baird called balls and strikes was the best called inning I saw...lol...GOOD JOB CATCH!!

Three good teams working to get better. That is what this is all about. Good luck this summer to all the young ladies that were there today. I am sure they will be successful.

Hey CoachJV, I heard yours say Dance Team was her calling. I want to see her first performance. Have a GREAT summer!!

You too sir....I hope you don't hold your breath on the dance team. I think she had better stick with softball although she could use some cardio it looks like.....lol. Pitched in 2 games in North Georgia today and heading to Clarksville for 2 more tomorrow. She was worn out on the way home. She smacked a double off the wall in the second game and told me all she could think about on the way to 2nd was she hoped Michael didn't try to make her take 3rd.....lol.

Yep. All those girls owe all their success to their daddies and no one else. It couldn't be anyone else or the fact that the girl worked hard to become good. Way to take the credit for you daughters achievement

It's always the kid that deserves the credit....good coaches and parents know that....you could send me and Forest Gump to Harvard to study under "Einstien" and I would still be an idiot. Forest might get smarter but not me. Looking at that from the other angle, "Einstien" could have probably been educated down here in "Possum Holler" and still been a pretty smart fellow. I had a very prestigious coach that had coached an "All World" athlete tell me one time, "I learned more from her than she learned from me, all I can take credit for on that one was that I didn't mess her up".

So yes Guru I would like to see this list you have. I am betting this kid was not even on it. If she was you tell me again how the picks were made and expose the "homers".

If you are playing high school ball to add to a resume you are making a mistake. That's like a soldier looking for medals...all they are going to do is get someone killed and they are only in if for themselves....not much of a team mate.

This time of year your focus should be on what can we do to get better for next year instead of whining about why yours was left out. Hit the ball out of the park about 20 times next year and she will be on the list.

Remember it is a small and very connected world. With the internet and face book and all word gets around quick about who is a whiner. I am sure any future prospective college coaches would love to see your posts about this.

If you are that unhappy I would move her or have her just run track or some other individual sport. Mine is thinking about giving it up and going out for the Dance Team. She said something about Clay Busters but I figured she would shoot her foot off and forever be known as "Stumpy" plus I can't afford one of those new fangled repeating shot guns. On the stations where they have multiple targets she would have to shoot at the first on and just throw it at the next one. Not a good thing with Grand Ma Myrtles old single shot 10 guage. Plus I hear they won't let you load gravel and rock salt and that's all I know how to load.

Good Luck