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Tammy Williams TOP RECRUITNFCA’s camp magazine Concussions: A Growing Tammy Concern Williams How to Get on a Coach’s Helping Young Radar Players Reach Their Goals is Just Another Step to Success 5 Things I Wish I Knew volume 9: 2014 ride-along SummeR 2014 contents plAYeRS 4 Get To Know Three-Time NFCA All-America Shortstop Tammy on the cover Williams extRAS 8 Crossword 14 Word Search 38 Think Before You Post On Social Media HeAltH 9 Concussions: A Growing Concern 11 The Effects Of Sleep On Performance 12 What’s Up With Green Smoothies? ReCRuItING 16 Follow Our Road Map To Success 18 How To Make A Recruiting Video 19 Understanding The New Recruiting Camp Measurables 20–21 Early Recruiting Is The New Norm 22-24 The 10 Most Important Things About Recruiting 25 How To Get On A Coach’s Radar ColleGe lIFe 27 How I Spent My Summer/Favorite Quotes and Walk-out Songs 28-29 A Day In The Life Of A College Player 31 Five Things I Wish I Knew Before College 32-34 Making A Difference With Community Service 36 Managing Your Time Effectively 4 Tammy Williams 37 Adjusting To A New Role In College Helping Young Players Reach Their Goals Is Just Another Step to Success 9 Concussions: A Growing Concern Complete AtHlete Head injuries need to be treated fully and 40 The Difference Between Good And Great carefully 41 Shaking Off Adversity 42 A Champion’s Checklist 25 How to Get on a Coach’s Radar Some tips on catching the eye of college coaches INStRuCtIoN 31 5 Things I Wish I Knew 44 Choosing The Right Equipment 45 The Importance Of Slap Hitting NFCA 34 What’s in it for you? Awards! Top Recruit is published yearly for NFCA members and their camps. For more information, contact the NFCA at 502.409.4600 or nfca.org Photos Courtesy of: Dina Kwit/National Pro Fastpitch (cover, p. 4-6); JJ Jorgenson (p.28); University of Kentucky, Florida Tech, SUNY New Paltz (p. 31); University of Notre Dame (p. 32); University of California, Berkeley (p. 33); University of Tennessee (p. 45). he will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach “Tyour full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” That’s a quote ascribed to famed Helping Young Chinese philosopher Confucius that could be argued sums up the characteristics Players Reach needed to succeed in anything in life. It’s also a quote that could be used to Their Goals is sum up many of those who find success Just Another in athletic endeavors as athletes often cite phrases such as “the will to win” as Step to Success the major factors that help drive them to reach the pinnacle of their chosen sport. For Tammy Williams, a former NFCA By Brian Davis, All-American at Northwestern, member of NFCA Director of Team USA and current standout for the Media Relations Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch, it’s that urge to succeed and reach her full potential that has helped transform her into one of the top players in the sport of softball. “I think my will to win is a combination of what I learned from my family and something I was born with,” Williams said. “There’s a part inside of me that absolutely hates losing, and I think that partially comes from having older brothers and competing with them. I think part of it comes from my dad and in what he instilled in me. He would say ‘if you’re Tammy doing this, you’re doing it to win. You’re going 100 percent.’ I think it’s a little of both. I think I was naturally born with that personality inside, and then the environment, especially when I went to Northwestern, helped that will grow.” WilliamsLike so many others, the Osceola, Missouri, native found softball at a young age with the help and support of an athletic family. “I started playing when I was really little,” Williams said. “I came from a baseball family. My dad absolutely loved baseball. My older brother Jamie always played, and he’s a couple of years older than me. It was just sort of what we did when we were home, go outside and play. “My family just loved sports. My dad was all about sports and all into them. My players players mom loved it, but you know how moms and how much I loved softball until I Following her outstanding collegiate are, she would practice with us, but dad went to Northwestern. The competition career she moved on to a stint with the was really the one who was the fanatic was incredible. Everyone around me was U.S. Women’s Senior National Team, about it. My dad passed away when I was a great player and was making me better. helping the Red, White & Blue secure 12, so after that, my mom had to practice Coming into that team with the work the gold medal at the 2010 ISF Women’s with me all the time and be the one to ethic they had, the drive, the amazing World Championship, and to a roster spot take me around everywhere. Thankfully with the NPF’s Chicago Bandits. Those there was never a lot of pressure on me to opportunities are ones that Williams play, and my mom let me play because I doesn’t take lightly. loved it. Softball was something I always “Putting that USA jersey on for the loved to do. I was always passionate about first time was absolutely breathtaking,” softball. I got that love from my dad. Williams said. “It’s what you grow up “They put me on my first coach-pitch dreaming about as a little kid. You team when I was around seven. I think I grow up wanting to be in the Olympics, was probably 11 when I started playing wanting to represent your country. It’s travel ball. When I got older, I played what you’ve always thought about. When for the Missouri Madness under Glenn I first got to do that, it was one of the Knaebel, who actually went on to be most exciting times in my life. That a Division I coach. I had a little bit of summer I got to meet so many incredible an advantage in that regard because he people and had the chance to play with was a fastpitch guy. He threw us batting the very best athletes, the best softball practice all the time and knew the game players in the world. really, really well. “After that summer, we all had the “Just like everyone else I traveled opportunity to come into the NPF. I still on weekends throughout the summer. get to put that Bandits jersey on every day In Missouri it’s a little bit different and know that I am competing against a because high school softball goes on “I think my will to win is Cat Osterman [and other great players]. in the fall, so at my school I actually a combination of what I For now this is our Olympics. That we get played volleyball. I came from a small to put on our uniforms and play for the school, so basically I felt it was much learned from my family championship in August, it’s the same more beneficial to me to play travel and something I was level of feeling. You’re going out there softball during those years than it would born with.” every day knowing it’s going to be a battle. have been to play high school softball. “For me I’ve seen the league grow so I would do that for most of the summer much in the last six years. My first game throughout the fall and then I would pitching, that was the year we played for we were on a college field and two years move into volleyball, basketball and track. the national championship, I just began later, we had a field built specifically I was a busy athlete. Growing up, being to love competing. I loved getting in the for us. It was the very first facility from a smaller community, all the athletes batter’s box every time knowing I could built solely for a women’s professional played everything. I think that played change the game. That’s really where I sport. We have amazing facilities and an a huge part in eventually helping make began to absolutely love softball when I incredible owner who would do absolutely me a better softball player because I was got to college, because it was finally at anything for us. always active and moving, so that helped the speed I wanted to play.” “The reason I love the league so much me become a more well-rounded athlete. To say she thrived at that speed at is that so many women can play. Right “In high school, I wasn’t sure if I Northwestern is an understatement as now we don’t have enough teams to give wanted to play softball or volleyball in Williams went on to earn three first-team all of the top collegiate softball players college because volleyball was so fast. NFCA All-American selections, was twice a chance to continue playing the game. There was so much movement, which is chosen as the Big Ten Conference Player of We have All-Americans sitting on the why I loved it. Towards my junior year I the Year and still holds the Wildcat marks bench.
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