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WEEK 20 OF THE SOFTBALL COACH
THIS WEEK HAS BEEN THE WEEK OF FINAL PREPARATION FOR THE CANBERRA DIAMONDS
Tomorrow its a very early flight as we take off at 6 am and arrive in Sydney at 6.45. This will give us 3 hours to get to the international terminal and board the flying kangaroo {Quantas Airlines} to the land of the great white cloud better known as New Zealand. We will be just over 3 hours in the air before we touch down in Auckland. The diamonds have a 19 seater rented and we will cross Auckland right in peak traffic, and should reach North Harbour by 7 pm. By the time the bus is unloaded and the girls have checked into there rooms, they will be put through 20 minutes of water aerobics at the nearby beach. Chilly but refreshing.
As the players are enjoying the chilly waters the coaches will be out grocery shopping so we can stalk all the rooms with food for 5 days. By doing it this way each girl will save $150 in food costs. To play in this event costs each player about $1500.00 dollars and thats what you call committment to your sport.
Everyone is looking forward to the first game and questions go through my mind like do we all know the signals, have we got the right team to face our opponents. I have always been a firm believer that you never under estimate your opposition, and study them every chance you get. We take a special person to do this and along with myself design the game plan to give to the girls on how we think we're going to play the game.
We know we will face some very good teams, and we are looked upon as underdogs, but i think we will surprize a few teams, as we have our pitchers and catchers in peak form. Where i thought we would be weak in catching has been our most improved position, our pitching is very strong and Greta Checetti from Italy will do the bulk of the work. Our hitters are very good and after facing our u/19 boys on 2 occasions we know we will not face any pitchers who throw harder or faster.
A picture or two of some of our players and please leave any comments you have. I will try and bring you a daily report from New Zealand on our progress. In the meantime you can follow me on http://bobharrow.blogspot.com
Ella watching closely for the coming pitch.
pitching and batting practice 
Gretta working with our up and coming catcher 
The team raising funds with a BBQ to help offset our costs.
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