Louisville Softball Hitting Coach - Bryce Neal

Patrick Jones Baseball

In today’s episode I speak to Bryce Neal, Bryce is the hitting coach of the University of Louisville.

Bryce comes to Louisville after serving as an assistant coach at Bucknell University during 2021 season.

Prior to his stint at Bucknell, Bryce served as a volunteer assistant coach at Arizona State in 2020. He has also worked as a private instructor and spent five years coaching one-on-one private lessons at Perfect Timing Baseball and Softball in Springdale, Arkansas. In 2019 he worked as a camp instructor for LSU softball.

From 2013 to 2015, he served as a director and coach for Midwest Nationals Baseball in Springfield, Missouri. While there he was in charge of developing training programs as well as travel logistics.

He talks about softball from a development standpoint, hitting, recruiting, offensive strategy, and the mental side of the game.

He shares some of his experiences in baseball and how he evolved as a coach.

In this episode, learn how they do things at the University of Louisville.

SHOW NOTES:

[2:34] Why did you decide to go in the softball game?

[4:12] What advice did your wife have for you when you came into softball?

[5:32] Has anything particularly changed in your approach to working with hitters now on the softball side?

[7:56] Being a hitter is the hardest thing to do and I think the second hardest thing to do in all sports just be a hitting coach.

[10:03] What are you telling the hitters as they're going up on the index circle?

[12:30] Would you say you're doing less talking now than you were doing before?

[14:56] You don't believe in the word timing, can you elaborate on that?

[18:47] Would you also work with hitters on their stance or set up to help with that time?

[22:49] When you're out recruiting and watching hitters knowing maybe it might be different for other people but being progressive how you are is there anything specific you're looking for?

[26:50] Is that just from your just gut and eyes tell you like they have good bath speed or they don't?

[29:12] How do you go about knowing who to go watch?

[32:19] What's a good home to first time that like you look down your stopwatch right that's a burner right there?

[33:40] What about from a defensive side?

[35:26] Are there other numbers that you're looking forward to at the camp from an exit velocity standpoint?

[38:54] How are you going to go about helping him develop as a hitter from the time he's a young kid all the way up the chain?

[42:42] How much parent involvement is too much?

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WEBSITE:

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