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Britney Purser
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Britney Purser
@BritneyPurser
Walters State Head Softball Coach #RollSens 🤘@WSCCsoftball • FGCL @bradentonslice Coach🍊• @OspreySB Alumni • @floridavibesb staff 🥎 [email protected]
Morristown, TN
Joined August 2022
- College athletes: These 4 years are going to go by really fast. You’ll have days where you are exhausted from agility/workouts/practice/homework. Want it all! Want the pain, want the failure, want the success, want this moment. One day, it won’t be there and you’ll wish it was.
- Less than 5% of high school softball players get to play in College. If you are one of those players who were lucky enough to get an opportunity to play college softball, don’t take it for granted.
- As a coach, I want to know you as a person. Not just an athlete. I want to be able to talk to you about life. Not just softball. A lot of recruiting nowadays is about spotting the talent first. Which is understandable, and something I do first as well. But after that, I recruit
- You want to play D1? I encourage you to watch a D1 game & see if you can beat out someone on that field. Then I want you to do the same thing for D2, D3, NAIA, & JUCO. This will give you perspective. Don’t insist on going somewhere that does not fit you athletically.
- “Do the extra” Practice is not enough. You have to do work outside of practice to get better. You are sharing reps during practice. If you take it seriously you may get a little better, but you are not getting enough. Studs are created when they do the extra work. DO IT 💪
- I'm looking for players that want to be better. Not ones that think they are already good enough. There's no such thing.
- The biggest thing softball did for me was help me understand that failure is just a part of the process. It’s what you do after failure that defines you. 🗣
- 📢 All Athletes! Don’t assume that the best of the best is all at the D1 level. I know D2, D3, NAIA, and JUCO schools that can compete with and beat multiple D1 schools. Choose carefully when you make your decision. Are you doing it for you? Your education? Will it exceed
- It is a privilege to be a collegiate athlete. You got an opportunity to be there but every day you are earning your stay. The grind doesn’t stop when you get to college. You can’t just “make it”. You have to “maintain it”.
- RECRUITS: Learn how to play multiple positions. You hit, you play. If you are able to play multiple positions, it opens a lot more opportunities for you. Don’t let yourself be a one trick pony. Find any way to get into the lineup. 🫡
- I recruit the person before the athlete. Your character is what I crave to get to know. I may love you on the field, but I want to love you off the field too.
- I got the question "Do you prefer to see us at camps or have us email you with our videos?" CAMPS ALL DAY! Wanna know why? I get to see the UNEDITED version of you. I wanna know what your mentality is when you make a mistake. How you handle failure shows me a lot about you.
- Recruits, do not burn bridges! The coaching world is small. You want positive things said about you. Also, coaches move all the time. A coach that you rudely dismissed because you weren’t interested in their program may be somewhere new next yr with new opportunities. Respect! 🫡
