Tim Walton Softball Coaches Academy: Infield & Outfield Skills & Drills

with Tim Walton,
University of Florida Head Coach;
2x Women's College World Series Champions (2014, 2015);
5x SEC Tournament Champions;
8x SEC Regular Season Champions;
5x SEC Coach of the Year;
2019 NFCA Southeast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year;
2015 USA Softball Junior Women's National Team Assistant Coach;
over 800 career wins

Coach Tim Walton provides a detailed roadmap of how coaches can structure the fundamental drills that build applicable skills for infielders and outfielders at any level. You will appreciate Coach Walton's adaptations to make drills ideal and practical for any team's softball practice.

If you have ever wondered if you're dedicating too much of your practices to fundamental skills, or if you've ever been concerned about allocating time to base skill execution, your worries will be put to rest by the plan laid out by Walton in this video.

Infield

Accurate and strong throws are the core of any defensive effort. The throwing section of Coach Walton's presentation provides a detailed pattern for an in-season throwing workout that blends the breadth of skills needed with repetition to build competence in your players. Additionally, you will get a preseason build up program to prepare for the transition from off-season to preseason practice.

Walton gives you more than 20 infield execution drills, progressing from his basic "Roller" set, to grounders and double play execution. Several specialty drills are shown that will give you excellent ideas for training both basic and advanced field-throw techniques in a compact and efficient manner.

Outfield

The outfield section of this video covers throwing and fungo drills that touch on all commonly occurring fielding situations. With Coach Walton's drills, your outfielders will have no problem moving right or left, backward or forward as they cover ground to take away balls hit at every trajectory.

Any coach looking for a well developed menu of drills, organized in a logical manner, will benefit from watching this video. Coach Walton does a great job of showing, in detail, how he structures his practices to improve the play of his infielders and outfielders.

71 minutes. 2022.