Baseball · patrick burns

Inside the Circle with Coach Pat

by patrick burns

Youth sports can be one of the greatest experiences of your family's life. It can also be one of the most overwhelming. Between the recruiting pressure, the tournament schedules, the team drama, and the constant noise about what your kid should be doing next, it's easy to lose sight of why you started in the first place. Inside the Circle with Coach Pat cuts through all of it. Coach Pat is a youth and travel softball coach with over 20 years of experience and a track record of helping dozens of athletes reach college softball. Known for his calm, firm coaching style and his belief that sport is one of the best classrooms life has to offer, Coach Pat brings the inside perspective that most people in youth sports don't want to say out loud. Every episode features honest conversations with college coaches, tournament directors, travel ball organizations, and people who've built programs that last. We talk about team culture, player development, coaching fundamentals, the recruiting process, and the mindset that keeps families grounded when the pressure gets loud. This show is for the parents sitting in the bleachers trying to figure it all out. It's for the new coach who wants to do right by their players. And it's for the athlete who is starting to take the game seriously and wants to understand what the journey ahead really looks like. Every kid's journey is unique and this show exists to help you navigate yours. New episodes every other week. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

Website

Latest episodes

Showing 12 · updated from the feed

011: The Real Reason Softball Hitters Lack Confidence | Vicky Galasso

Softball hitting confidence is not a personality trait your daughter is born with. It is proof she builds, one successful rep at a time. If your travel softball player st

Oct 6
55 min

010: How to Be a Coachable Softball Player | Leah O'Brien-Amico

How to be a coachable softball player comes down to three things three-time Olympic gold medalist Leah O'Brien-Amico lived at every level: take the correction, make the a

Sep 29
49 min

009: What No One Tells Softball Parents About Recruiting | Cheri Naudin

A softball recruiting advocate for parents is someone who turns a coach's interest into a real plan instead of a guess, and Cheri Naudin has built an entire company aroun

Sep 22
54 min

008: The Softball Recruiting Hub Every Travel Ball Parent Needs | Tiffany Worthy Deering, President of APS Recruits

A softball recruiting app for parents like APS Recruits exists because the college recruiting process for travel softball families has quietly become an unpaid second job

Sep 15
40 min

007: The Injury That Almost Ended Olympic Gold Medalist Michele Smith's Career | Coach Pat

Michele Smith is a two time Olympic softball gold medalist, ESPN's lead college softball analyst, and one of the loudest voices in the fight for equal opportunity under T

Sep 1
1 h 01 min

006: Dr. Dot Richardson: What No One Tells Softball Parents | Coach Pat

Travel softball for parents means finding guests who have lived every version of this journey, and Dr. Dot Richardson has lived nearly all of them. Rejected for being a g

Aug 18
59 min

005: Coach Stef Ewing on Five-for-Five, Roles and Team Culture | Coach Pat

Travel softball for parents raises one of the toughest questions in the sport: how do college coaches actually decide who gets recruited? On Inside the Circle with Coac

Aug 4
1 h 00 min

004: Rick Fremin on Why Raw Talent Isn't Enough | Coach Pat

Softball team culture is the real reason a mid-major program keeps beating Power Four schools, and in this episode of Inside the Circle, Coach Pat sits down with Rick Fre

Jul 21
32 min

003: Bill Conroy Sent 529 Kids to College Softball. Here’s What Happened Next | Coach Pat

Travel softball recruiting advice from someone who has sent 529 players to college ball starts right here. In this episode of Inside the Circle, Coach Pat sits down wit

Jul 21
36 min

002: 37 Years, 8 Titles, One Coaching Rule with Mike Candrea | Coach Pat

Youth softball coaching tips from a legend anchor this episode of Inside the Circle. Coach Pat sits down with Mike Candrea, the winningest coach in NCAA softball histor

Jul 21
49 min

001: Three Lessons Every Travel Softball Parent Needs | Coach Pat

Travel softball for parents often starts with a pretty pink bat, a matching helmet, and a hit that lands on grandma's Facebook. It rarely stays that simple. In this sol

Jul 21
11 min

Trailer | Welcome Inside the Circle with Coach Pat

Youth sports can be one of the greatest experiences of your family's life. It can also be one of the most overwhelming. Between the recruiting pressure, the tournament

Jul 13
1 min