Dynamic Defensive Drills for Infielders

with Ed Servais,
Creighton University Head Coach from 2004 to 2025;
4x Big East Regular Season Champions (2014, 2017, 2019, 2025);
2x Big East Tournament Champions (2025, 2019);
2x Big East Coach of the Yearÿ(2014, 2019);
2x MVC Regular Season Champions (2005, 2011);
3x MVC Tournament Champions(2007, 2011,ÿ2012);
4xÿMVCÿCoach of the Year (2004, 2005, 2007, 2011);
2008 Field Turf National Coach of the Year;
2013 USA Baseball Assistant Coach;
NCAA Record .984 Team Fielding Percentage (2009);
Creighton Assistant Coach from 1998 to 2003;
Iowa State Assistant Coach from 1996 to 1997;
Saint Mary's (MN) Head Coach from 1989 to 1995;
2x MIAC Regular Season Champions (1990, 1993);
2x MIAC Coach of the Year (1990, 1993);
played college baseball for Wisconsin-La Crosse

During his tenure as Head Coach at Creighton University, Ed Servais has coached his teams to the highest fielding percentage in the country, with no other Division I team committing as few errors. Creighton has achieved a single-year fielding percentage as high as .984, which is the best in the NCAA aluminum bat era.

In this video, Coach Servais dismisses the labels of "hard" and "soft" hands and shows what's really going on - poor technique vs. proper technique. Servais covers every aspect of fielding, including:

• The glove - how to choose it, break it in, and wear it
• Two types of ready position that get the feet active and the glove prepared
• The approach - from first step, through attack, to the last two steps
• The glove action that emphasizes "up" before "in" which improves control, and avoids balls off the heel
• Two footwork patterns for the throwing action
• The arm action that increases accuracy and reduces errors

Coach Servais also presents a complete throwing program that progresses from the ground up, isolates every element of the throw and places a high premium on accuracy.

He shares his rapid catch and rapid fire drills that feature two drills to develop footwork on long and short relays, dead ball touch drill, the "Last Two Steps" drill, the "Short Hop Series" that creates proper hand position and keeps the chin down, fielding progression drill, baby gator training glove and no-glove fielding drills, and a timing drill in which coach Servais reveals the precise delivery-time target for beating out college runners.

Raise your team's fielding percentage with an approach proven to develop mastery and that leads to success on game day.

58 minutes. 2011.