Book Private Softball Lessons with Coach Alissa

I am a full time student studying Biology at New Mexico State University. I am studying to become a pediatric dentist, but at my core, my passion has always been helping the youth in my community. I have played softball since I was a little girl, and got the opportunity to play at the collegiate level in Midland, Texas. I pride myself on my outgoing, understanding spirit, and I enjoy every part that comes along with making new connections with the athletes I am able to work with. I was able to coach at my own little league back home, where I hosted free pitching, and utility clinics. I was able to provide private lessons with a few of the athletes from these clinics that wanted the extra one on one coaching. Eventually, I would like to be able to become a full time coach wherever the right fit may be, and I look forward to helping athletes along my way!

I can help improve your game by making sure we set a solid ground for proper mechanics. When we get these solid mechanics down, you will be able to build yourself up to anything you set your mind to, and I am here to help with that! I believe in becoming a stronger athlete not only physically, but mentally as well. An athlete is only as strong as their mind, and with my coaching I will make sure that we work towards improving the mental game as well. I also understand that each athlete has their own strengths and weaknesses, so we will work with what feels comfortable with each athlete, while also working towards improving towards your athletes goal.

A typical training session contains about 15-20 minutes of warm ups, to ensure injury prevention. Once we are done stretching out, if it is the first session I'd like to start off with getting to know each other. i want to know what your goals are, what you believe your strengths and weaknesses are, and what your "why" is for playing this sport. I would like to introduce myself as well and talk more about what I expect as a coach. I think its important to have a why, and with each session if we reach a bump in the road, it is important we can look back on your "why", so it can fuel you to get over any challenges you may come across. After we get to learn more about each other, we will start off with the mechanics of whatever the lesson is based on; pitching, fielding, hitting, and more. Once I am able to evaluate the athletes mechanics, we can base the remaining time of the session off what needs work in that specific lesson. After the physical repetitions are done, we will end off the session with a collaborative talk with the athlete, their parents, as well as myself where we come up with a game plan for the athlete to follow on their own time.

The best coach I ever had would have to be my dad, even though they were the toughest years of my life! He taught me so much about not only softball, but myself. He instilled my hard working mentality, and taught me to never give up on something that I put my mind to. He taught me with tough love, but this tough love raised me to work for every achievement, and taught me to never forget to be a good person and a good athlete.

I operate on a more than just business level. Whenever I get the opportunity to be able to coach an athlete, I invest my all into them, because I was once them! I want them to achieve anything and everything, and while we work towards getting better, I like to learn more about the athlete as a person as well. I want them to be comfortable with me, and feel like they have a coach that will always cheer them on, because when working with me, you will! I am very big on hard work and mindset, so in turn I will try my best to teach this to the athletes I work with. I expect honesty, respect and grit in return for my authentic time I give out to my athletes.