Mike Candrea
Mike Candrea
Mike Candreais the head softball coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He was the head coach of the United States women's national softball team in 2004, when Team USA won a gold medal, and in 2008, bringing home silver...
aggressive compete competing five gave good innings job nice
Offensively we gave away five innings and did not do a good job competing at the plate. We're just not aggressive enough and we're a little too nice to compete at this level.
throw workouts
She's pretty much week-to-week. She's still able to throw and do workouts right now.
fight softball
I was devastated, obviously. I was very disappointed. There is not much more we can do right now but strategize and try to fight to get softball back into the games.
cleared ready uniform
She's been cleared to play. She'll be in uniform and ready to go for us.
hold
I don't have any doubts. Lisa can hold her own right now.
balance great hero impressed nice seemed top
It's only a start, but I was very, very, very impressed with the way we competed. We got great balance and contributions from top to bottom, and that is always nice to see. It seemed like we had a different hero every game.
call good
It was a good wake-up call for us.
chance might outside
I think there is an outside chance it might happen,
games happened
Probably 2,000 games and that's never happened to me.
chance program tradition
This is a chance to keep the tradition in our program active.
ball good puts
When she puts the ball in play, good things happen.
kids giving trying
I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.
softball running games
It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.
softball sports motivation
I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.