3 Ps Pitching: Emily Ullrich

🔑Only 300 D1 pitchers get recruited every year 👀

I wanted to share this from the NCAA!

5.6% of HS softball players go on to play in the NCAA, 1.8% play D1. (‼️ Only .03% go to Power 5 conferences - ACC, Big 10, Big 12, PAC 12, SEC- Thanks Cheri Naudin for the stat!)

Are you working harder than 94% of the softball players out there?

If your goal is to play D1, are you working harder than 98% of the softball players out there?

Are you finding ways to get better every day?

Do you understand that ALL of your choices play a part in your small % to try to make it to the next level?

Are you aware that your attitude and drive greatly effect whatever is coming next for you?

To me, this just really puts thing into perspective about the importance of your day to day choices for your softball journey.

Sooo many things need to be on your side and go your way in order to play at the next level- many things aren’t in your control.

Therefore whatever the things are that you CAN control - diet, sleep, strength work, order of priorities, amount of times you practice, the attitude you keep in games/practices, etc - make the MOST of them!! It is is so competitive to play D1, D2 and D3- make the most of ALL of your choices, as a softball player and as a softball family.

‼️ For pitcher perspective with round numbers, I’ll say there are 300 D1 schools. Say there are 4 pitchers for every team. That means there are 1200 pitchers in D1. That would mean 0.3% HS players go to D1, D2 or D3 as pitchers!

+++ Say there are 300 freshmen pitchers. 300 sophomore pitchers. 300 junior pitchers. 300 senior pitchers. That means there are only 300 D1 pitchers who get recruited every year. 👀

Staggering stats when you really think about it!

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A strikeout,
A bad grade on a quiz or test,
A “bad game”,
A friend not liking what you’re wearing to school,
The umpire’s call you disagree with…

Don’t let one thing consume your day, energy, and mood.

Acknowledge it, feel it, use your failure recovery strategies, and ground yourself in your anchor to move about your day even after that one thing.

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