A Coach’s Journey: Phil Forbes III

In keeping with the tradition that Be the Best is a convention created for coaches by coaches, we’ve asked for inspirations and stories from your contemporaries. Click...

Why Coaches’ Conventions are Worth the Investment

Even if you’re the winningest coach your organization has ever seen, the best sign caller east of the Mississippi or know how to motivate players better than anyone...

Why Continue Your Coaching Education?

Be the Best Baseball and Softball Coaches' Convention is a great place to up your game as a coach. You spend three days learning from the best, sharing with other...

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Baseball Speaker Line-up Released

If you want to become a better baseball coach, Be the Best is the best place to be. With the best of the best sharing their passions, their stories and their formulas...

Be the Best Announces Softball Speaker Line-up

If you want to be the best, you want to learn from the best. This year, Be the Best brings you the best of the best in an unparalleled roster of softball speakers who...

LONNI ALAMEDA COMES TO BE THE BEST

There’s something special about the way Lonni Alameda coaches. When her team gets tossed to the loser’s bracket, she doesn’t toss in the towel. Instead, she just digs...

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Is someone footing the bill for you? One of the best things about Be the Best is that it’s so well-known and highly-regarded that employers, schools and organizations...

Hacking the Swing by Perry Husband

Jul 11, 2018

If you can’t explain it ‘simply’ then you don’t understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein This statement holds true in the world of hitting, more today than ever. New ways to measure virtually every aspect of the art of hitting a round ball with a round bat,...

The Playground Approach to Softball by Bill Edwards

Jun 18, 2018

There was a time when the local playground helped shape a generation. There was a freedom to those times, since we could leave our houses on a sunny summer day and meet at the playground for a day-long “game.” There was no adult supervision and the primary goal for...

Recruiting Myths and Truths by Kate Stake, as appeared in NFCA Top Recruit Magazine

May 29, 2018

MYTHS IF YOU DON’T PLAY DIVISION I, YOU HAVEN’T REALLY REACHED YOUR GOAL No. Stop. I am a Division I softball coach. It doesn’t mean I’m a better coach than my colleagues in Division II. It doesn’t mean that my wins and losses are more relevant than theirs, or that...

POTENTIAL PROSPECTS: What I’m looking for By Larissa Anderson

May 24, 2018

What I'm looking for in Potential Prospects #1 – Fierce Competitor, Self-Motivated, Self-Disciplined! I want to see someone compete on and off the field, in the batter’s box and in the class room. Someone who works hard on every play, dives, supports their...