PITCHING CLINIC

Pitching clinics
Fluid dynamics lessons
scheduled for Wolverines 

Nicole Thomas watches sophomore 

Lindsay Siok work on the short 

foot drag of Fluid Dynamics.

There's a new fastpitch softball pitching style for the Wesley Wolverines this season. For those hurlers embracing it, fans should immediately recognize a brand new windup launching softballs from the circle.

Head Coach Juli Greep has tapped pitching specialist Nicole Thomas to spend time with the Wesley pitchers and catchers to introduce the new form.

It's called “fluid dynamics” or more formally “Tincher Maximum Energy Transfer System.”

Nicole Thomas knows all about it. A former college and high school pitching star, Nicole is one of 13 instructors across the country who are licensed to teach this new pitching style.
                                                          

This blog has written about this
revolutionary pitching technique in the past.

CLICK HERE for that previous blog post.

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Freshman Lauren Hoffman keeps 
the glove high as prescribe in the 
Fluid Dynamics follow through.

What is Fluid Dynamics?

CAUTION: What follows is a thumbnail description from a totally non-expert bystander who is summarizing some of what was overheard during the pitching instructions to the players.

► First, the glove stays high in the air, then the arm speed is swift and smooth, the leg drag is short, and the stride is long.

► Every movement is fleet and graceful, purposely designed from in-depth research into bio-mechanics to take advantage of female strengths and draw maximum power from the legs to the fingertips. 

Lindsay Siok and Lauren Hoffman consult with 
Nicole Thomas during the Wesley West pitching clinic.

► It's ultra-efficiency in windmill mechanics that's balanced yet mobile, strong and stable, powerful, while reducing risk of injury – all before the ball suddenly explodes and spins toward the batter like never before! 

Clinic participants
 
For the next two weeks Nicole will be spend time holding a series of clinics at Wesley West and DuPont Field, specifically to work with four Wolverine pitchers. They are:

Nicole Thomas observes Lindsay Siok's 
and Lauren Hoffman's pitching form.

■ Sophomore #12 P/MI Lindsay Siok (Milford, DE)...

■ Sophomore #9 P/OF Lily Engel (Dover, DE)...

■  freshman #99 P/OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE)...

■  freshman #23 P/MI Destiny Davis (Salisbury, MD).

Catchers are part of the clinic's game plan, as well. Besides calling pitches, they are, of course, focused like no one else on the field on the pitcher's form and effectiveness – and quick, if not first, to consult with pitchers under the pressures of the game.

Catching for the pitchers at the Fluid Dynamic sessions are ■ sophomore #18 C/3B Nina Marcano (Middletown, DE) and ■ sophomore #21 C/3B Whitney Dibb (La Mesa, CA). A non-catcher, ■  junior #8 OF Steph Caracozza (Melbourne Beach, FL) is also helping out behind the plate.

Nicole Thomas instructing at Wesley West. She is one of 13 instructors 

across the country who are licensed to teach the Fluid Dynamics pitching style.

Two other  Wolverine catchers, softball co-captains ■ junior #22 C/UT Morgan Seymour (Smyrna, DE) and ■ junior #32 C/3B Kayla Fromal (Middletown, DE), are ineligible for fall softball because they are members of Wesley field hockey team whose season runs into November.

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Will you be at the Wolverine's
first & only fall doubleheader?

It's less than two weeks away, Sunday Oct. 5! It is away games at  Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD – not really that far from the Wesley College campus.

CLICK HERE for the blog post
about these games.