Berating and tearing down your players as a travel coach and saying it’a preparing them for the college level is simply not true. We don’t mentally deplete our players and no travel ball player or parent should put up with it. My free advice for the week.
Brooke Kalman
2,313 posts
Drexel University Head Softball Coach
- It’s more than telling our athletes it’s okay to not be okay. While that’s a huge part of it, it’s also equipping them with the skills to ask those who are struggling difficult questions and get them to the people who can help. Gatekeeper training is vital right now.
- Thank you to the so many people who have reached out to me! Grateful for my time at MIT, and can’t wait see all the future success they have! But I think it’s finally time to say “it’s a great day to be a Bullet!” 🧡💙SB: #Gettysburg has announced Brooke Kalman as the next head softball coach. The 2014 grad has most recently been the head coach at @MITAthletics. Welcome home, Brooke! 🔶🔷 #GoBullets #CentConf #d3sb gettysburgsports.com/news/2022/9/7/…
- Give me a break- team just tied it up in the 7th of a d3 regional and was warned for an “excessive celebration.” What are we doing? Literally.
- A lot out there about the lack of offense for USA softball… at the end of the day they’re winning. At the highest level, and really any level, it’s defense, pitching, and some timely hitting. I’ll take it to the grave with me. Keep games close and give yourself a chance to win.
- To all those athletes not signing an NLI today, keep your heads up! I can give you 20 examples of formers PSAs who didn’t sign an NLI and I’d say landed on their feet… in fact a few of them might land on the moon some day…
- Today we lost the plug for first base and had to dig around the first base area for quite some time... it’s been the most normal thing to happen me in almost 12 months. And no we didn’t find it. @coach_toric
- Tons of 9/1 tweets filling up my feed -2022s don’t forget the relationships you’ve built with the d3s-it took time to get to know us and our programs...Relationship building is the same at all divisions...it’s not d1 or bust, be smart as you embark on the d1 recruitment journey
- Had a former player call me tonight to just catch up and check in… it didn’t hit me until an hour later of how special that call was. Little does she know how much that call meant to me and how it needed it was 🧡
- Wouldn’t be a true D3 NCAA experience without a compromised school credit card and 2 cancelled flights.
- While we are still very much so building our 2026 class, we are super excited to also start connecting with the class of 2027 come 9/1. Please make sure we have all of your updated contact information- questionnaires.armssoftware.com/7bdf62799eb2 The Dragon Wagon is off and moving!
- Hoping this stacks nicely with a championship ring… shoutout to @JeffSlanovec for having to deal with me in season for the rest of his life ❤️










