FURY Softball

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Head coach NOT ALLOWED to challenge the call.

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Fury Family,

Please keep Coach Lee White in your prayers today. Lee is currently undergoing open heart bypass surgery due to some blockages around his heart. Surgery is expected to last several hours today.

If you know Lee, you know what a kind, talented, caring, and genuinely good man he is. He has impacted so many lives through softball, friendship, and simply always being there for others. He means a lot to all of us.

I forgot to add ornery Army guy this attribute will help him in these circumstances!!!!

Lee is also an extremely private person, and before today he only wanted a very small circle of people to know what he was facing. He didn’t want to make a big deal out of it or have people worrying while he prepared for surgery. Now that the surgery is underway, we wanted to share this so everyone can lift him up in prayer and support.

Please keep Coach Lee, his doctors, and his family in your thoughts and prayers today for a successful surgery and smooth recovery. ❤️

Once he is home and feeling better, I’m sure he would love hearing from everyone. We will also keep everyone updated as we hear more from the family regarding visits or ways we may be able to help during recovery.

Please also keep an eye out for possible meal train and fundraising information to help support Lee and his family while he recovers.

Thank you everyone for the love, prayers, and support.

A lot of people confuse “nice” coaching with good coaching.

The best athletes know: their most formative coaches could never be called “nice”

Kids don’t respect a “nice” coach.

We’re not talking about the average kid who doesn’t care about winning in real competition, or desire to COMPETE amongst the best.

But for the truly motivated:

They yearn for mentors & coaches who believe in them enough to tell them the truth and push them to excellence.

Even if they don’t consciously understand it.

Yesterday at practice we worked around the horn and broke it down into the details most players want to skip:

Footwork.
Timing.
Direction.
Transfers.
Throwing with intent.

Some girls acted like they were too good for the lesson, even though they couldn’t execute it flawlessly.

Some girls were so afraid to look bad while learning that they kept doing it wrong quietly, hoping we’d just move on.

So we didn’t move on.

We stopped the drill.

Again.
And again.

Until every girl understood what we were asking for. There were tears of frustration because growth feels bad when ego, fear, or comfort is fighting it.

For the ones who thought they were above the details, we told the truth: being the best in a small town doesn’t mean you’ve arrived, and getting mercied by barely above average teams means there is still a massive gap. You’re not too good for the little things.

For the ones who were afraid to fail in front of their teammates, we told the truth too: if you can’t let yourself look bad while learning, you’ll keep looking bad in competition.

That wasn’t “nice.” Nice would have been letting them feel better while they kept doing it wrong.

But that isn’t kindness.

Kindness is caring enough to stop, correct, tell the truth, and hold the standard when it would be easier to let it slide.

By the end of practice, every single girl improved. The tears turned into confidence. They had gained a new skill.

That’s what this graphic represents.

Not being harsh for the sake of being harsh.

Just refusing to confuse “nice” with kind.

Nice lies protect feelings.

Kind truth builds competitors.