So I thought I'd keep a little blog detailing my recent adventures in becoming a coach (assistant coach atm) for a local baseball team, an under 14's team to be exact. For people who aren't quite sure what I mean by that, over here in Australia its common for people signing up for sports teams to be assigned based on their age, so the under 14's would be everyone who is 13 years old (though we do have some exceptions, such as the two 12 year old boys on my team). Though there is one difference with our local baseball club, they like to keep the same coach with the same team for as long as that team is playing. In my case, that would be about 5 years which is totally awesome.

Anyway, I decided to sign up as a coach because I started to really get into the sport myself. Im at that age though that I don't feel I could really contribute that well to a team for people my age (20) so I decided to give coaching a shot. I was lucky enough to get the job on a trial basis until they can be sure I can coach the team well enough, that's why Im only an assistant coach at the moment. Once I've been there long enough, though, they'll make me the head coach so I can continue the kids training well into the future.

I was lucky enough to get an awesome team of about 14 kids. All of them are new to baseball so today was an awesome experience trying to find out what each of them could be good at. Teaching them the basics is going to be a really cool experience for the next few weeks and I look forward to watching them grow both as individuals and as a team.

At the moment there really isn't much more to report on their progress since it's only day 1 but Im totally planning on updating this every now and then so I can log their progress.

So freakin hyped!