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...
seen
I don't think I have ever seen that.
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.
arizona game hard help hopefully kids played turn uniform weekend
It's very disheartening. I'm used to kids in an Arizona uniform that play the game hard and play the game as a front-runner. This weekend they played like they were in awe. Hopefully it's a weekend that will help us turn it around.
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.
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.
chance program tradition
This is a chance to keep the tradition in our program active.
anyone decision easy special tiger
She's a special player. She's our Tiger Woods. When I told her, 'Lisa, you got the ball,' it was an easy decision on my part because I can't think of anyone better in a big game.
bats good great hits key looked offensive pitcher runs
It was a great offensive performance. We got some bats unleashed. Overall, I thought offensively we looked really good and got some key hits and put a lot of runs on the board. That's good for the pitcher that's for sure.