Savage Athletics: Indoor Softball Facility

Big shout to my rising freshman starting their high school careers yesterday!!
Brooklyn S. Navarre HS
Anniston S. Northview HS
Kaylee D. Northview HS

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Excited to start with the Atmore, AL High School today !!

Ohh the negative mind & how it always feels sorry for itself.

Softball is a game of failures, make them learning lessons & MOVE ON to the next pitch the next at bat but please MOVE ON!!

Your response to adversity inside the dugout says more about you than your response on the field.

Out on the field, a) you're getting playing time, so it probably makes you a little bit happier b) you're in front of hundreds of people so your response is most likely effected by knowing you have eyes on you.

But inside the dugout, how do you react?

How do you react when you're 0-3 with 3 Ks? How do you react when you're injured and know you won't play for the rest of the season? How do you react after you just made two errors in one inning? How do you react after giving up 5 runs in one inning?

The more you dwell on yourself and your personal negativity, the more those emotions build in the dugout because it's enclosed, there's no where for it to go but right back to your team.

Can you imagine if every single person on your team was upset and feeling sorry for themselves inside the dugout? It would feel awful in the dugout and hurt the team, it just wouldn't feel right, it wouldn't feel good.

Don't let the walls of the dugout fool you. No one from the outside in the stands may be able to see how you react, but your teammates know, and your team comes before you.

When you feel your frustration coming on, put your team first in your thoughts. Instead of just thinking about yourself and what you did or didn't do, look at your teammate who just got a hit and feel happiness for her - genuinely be happy for her. Take your focus off of yourself. Look for something, anything, that you could do to help your team right there in that moment.

See, the dugout might seem like it's a place to hide, but the real you actually gets exposed a little bit more inside of there when you think no one is watching.

If you're feeling a little down, find ways to build other people up and make your team better. You feeling down and staying down only hurts your team. The dugout can be a place for your entire team to come together, share ideas, and lift each other up to build momentum to win the game TOGETHER.

How are you helping your TEAM inside the dugout even when things aren't going YOUR way? Your personal mission and expectations are never bigger than the team's.

LETZZZ GOOO!!!

Northview softball tops Jay 7-0 to claim district championship, advanc... McAnally’s one-hitter with 11 strikeouts powers Northview past Jay 7-0 for the Class Rural, District 1 title and a home regional semifinal on May 7.

It’s about dang time someone said this LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK!!!

Fight is built in the silence of your bullpens. Just you and the ball. Just you against you.

& she’s right hours and hours of working on your craft, getting up before school to spend some time on the elliptical, journaling your thought out on paper before bed … all this when no one is looking ….HECK YA YOURE GONNA CELEBRATE THAT STRIKE OUT !!!!

Our sport has the right to be celebrated!

Watching Karlyn Pickens in that Tennessee vs Alabama softball game and I had a thought I know some people aren’t gonna like…

Some of you don’t have an intensity problem. You’ve got people around you who can’t handle it.

They’ll call it “too much” because it makes them uncomfortable. Because it exposes the fact they don’t bring that same edge. Because your confidence is loud and theirs is… nonexistent.

So what do they do? They try to level you out. Quiet you down. Make you easier to digest.

Nah. Not here.

You don’t get elite by being easy to handle. You get elite by being a damn problem.

And that version of you? The one that talks a little. The one that walks with presence. The one that lets the whole field feel her when she’s on? That’s not an act. That’s not something you flip on in the 7th inning.

That’s built in the random Tuesday bullpen. That’s built when nobody’s clapping. That’s built when you decide “average” isn’t even in your vocabulary.

And let’s clear something up real quick—emotion isn’t weakness.

Strike someone out and feel it. Your teammate barrels one up? Lose your mind for her. Bring juice. Bring life. Bring something people can actually feel.

But don’t be fake tough either…

If you’re gonna stare someone down, celebrate, carry that energy—you better be built to eat it when it comes back at you. No pouting. No victim mentality. No hiding when it flips.

You wanted the spotlight? Good. Now stand in it when it burns a little too.

Because the real ones—the dangerous ones—they don’t disappear when it gets uncomfortable. They get louder.

So if they’re telling you to tone it down?

You’re probably right where you need to be

What an honor !
I have the privilege of working with 3 sisters out of 4 from this wonderful family.

It doesn’t feel like a job ❤️