We reached out to top softball players across the nation to find out what they want to work on most or shoot to achieve in the New Year… here are their responses to the question:

What is your No. 1 goal for 2014?

 

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Our No. 1 goal for 2014 is to “Keep it simple”! This applies to all of our lives: home, school, work, softball, sports and friendships.

— 1B Alexis Allan (2017), Firecrackers-Brashear

 

My No. 1 goal for 2014 is to keep making consistent hard contact. And to overall improve my hitting. 

—C/SS Annika Baez (2017), Arizona Cats 

 

I would like to find the school that fits both academically, competitively and feels like a family by the end of 2014

—P DeNae Chatman (2017), Arizona Storm Mizuno-Tyler

 

My No. 1 goal for 2014 is to become the best overall person I can be. Whether it is athletically, academically, or socially, I want to excel and be better than I am today.

— SS Ivy Davis (2017), Firecrackers-Brashear (Calif.)

My goal is to make 16 A nationals and finish in the top 10. I would like to start a team Bible study on Sundays when we play.

—OF Hannah Johnson (2016), Georgia Fire

 

To hit the ball over the fence.

—IF/OF Madison Lawrence (2016), Utah Hot Shotz

 

To pitch a perfect game!

— P/IF Sadie Lawrence (2018), Utah Hot Shotz

 

My main goal is to keep working hard on my pitching and help my travel team win at PGF. My resolution is to work hard every day doing the little things that will help me to get to the next level- being the best player I can be.

—P/1B Hannah Lilly (2017), OC Batbusters-Granado (Calif.)

 

A New Year’s resolution for 2014 is to rise above other people’s standards, meet my own, and be satisfied with them.

–—OF Kelsey Miller (2017), Louisiana Patriots

 

I wanted to share my New Years resolutions… it is to work harder in the weight room and to be a more vocal leader on my high school team. My goals are simple: first, to reach out and help people less fortunate than me; second, to win a state championship with my high school team and a national championship with my travel team and lastly to be in the top 100 players in the country. That would be a unbelievable honor.

— IF Morgan Neal (2015), Tulsa Elite (Okla.)

 

During 2014, I want to continue to get stronger as a pitcher and overall player. 

—P/1B/OF Reilly Peters (2017), The Next Level (Calif.)

My goal is to polish my field work, get stronger and drop bombs!

—SS Toni Polk (2015), Gold Coast Hurricanes (Fla.)

 

My New Year’s resolution is to verbal to a college with my major and to lose some weight to gain speed.

—C/IF Tatiana Santiago (2015), Overdrive (Fla.)

 

My No. 1 goal for 2014 is to be the best teammate and all-around person I can be.

 — P/3B Lacy Smith (2015), TNT Gold (Pa.)

 

My No. 1 goal for the 2014 year is for my fellow teammates and I to take our high school softball coach, Roger Mathews, to states. I understand this is a huge task to accomplish but with the talent level and work ethnic that our team has nothing is impossible.

 —P/SS Taylor Strickland (2015), Lightspeed (Fla.)

 

My New Years resolution is to be the starting varsity outfielder for my high school team and get all straight A’s for school.

—OF Kalie Tafoya (2017), Colorado Cardinals

 

My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 is to become a friend when my friends need me the most. To be there as their shoulder to cry on, to see their need and full fill it, to be their greatest friend at all times.

—C/1B April Utecht (2015), WA Explosion (Wash.)

 

My No. 1 goal for 2014 is to focus on my pitching more so I can improve.

—SS Kristyn Whitlock (2023), Nemesis Elite (Calif.)

 

My No. 1 goal for 2014 is to become stronger mentally and physically and improve all aspects of my softball game.

—CF Kayla Yoshioka (2017), Nemesis Elite (Calif.)

 

In 2014 I want to stay completely focused on two of the most important things, school and softball. In school. my goal is to maintain all A’s and B’s.  In softball, I want to strive harder to be a dominant pitcher and hitter. 

—P/1B Lindsay Zdroik (2016), Wasco Diamonds (Ill.)