Personal Narrative: My Softball Coach

Many people have had one person who has inspired them. They have changed their life very much the first day that they met. The person who has changed my life in the past couple years was my softball coach. She had us all work as hard as we could everyday. If we didn’t put in our best effort for a drill, she would have us start over and do it again. Coach Tash was motivated, committed, and helpful to everyone on the team.
Throughout the softball season, Coach Tash motivated all of us everyday whether it was at practice or in the middle of a game. She told us that we should want to get better everyday. She always wanted us to leave better players and competitors at the game then when we came. Coach Tash is also a soccer coach. She says the same things to the soccer players that she coaches. After every game, we would all go in the
If someone had a question, she could answer it and help them with it. Tash had us do things over again everyday until we had it muscle memorized. One day someone told Tash that it was insane to have us to things over and over again and Coach Tash said a quote that one of her former coaches told her, “Insanity is doing something over and over and over again, and expecting a different result.” If someone made an error during a game, Tash wrote down who made the error and talked to them after the inning was finished and what they could have done to help prevent the error. If you are sitting for an inning, Tash has us run to the end of the field and back so we are ready to go in. Everyone had something that needed improving and Tash was helpful to show us what we were doing wrong and how to fix it.
At the end of the season she told all of us that she was proud of how much effort we put into the game. We had become a better team throughout the season and bonded well together. Each of us improved at something whether it was batting or fielding. She continues to inspired me