Michelle Gardner
Michelle Gardner
Michelle "Mikey" Gardner, formerly Michelle Bolster, is an American softball coach and former player. She has been the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers softball team since 2009. She previously served as the head coach at the University of Nevada from 2003 to 2008. She also served as an assistant softball coach at Arizona Stateand Florida State...
factor felt huge improvement marked needed pitching time
They needed more one-on-one time than I felt I could give them. With her, we'll see marked improvement in our pitching staff. That's a huge factor for us.
cancel field reason starts taking unless
As of now, we're going out there. Our field is fine. There's no reason to cancel it unless it starts to snow. We're taking a wait-and-see attitude.
backed game pushing stay team
The first game, we just did not play well, but we backed it up with a game and I am so excited. This team is talented, we just have got to keep pushing to get and stay over the hump.
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This will be a good test for us. The good news is it's everybody's first weekend out. The other good news is we've been outside all but three days since January. Last year, I think it was a huge factor that we hadn't been outside. We should be ready to go. The kids have worked extremely hard. I'm excited. What's another week going to do? Nothing. Let's go play.
build hoping needed
We really just did the things we needed to do to win. I'm hoping it will build momentum.
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We looked good at the plate all day. We looked confident, we swung at good pitches and made good choices. I'm excited. Good things have been happening. The team has had the capability to score a ton of runs all year long. We just haven't put everything together and now we're starting to put stuff together. That's the way it has to happen. I'm just excited because I really love what we're doing.