SAFE Baseball
Getting your coaches up to speed on injury prevention has never been easier — or more effective.
The SAFE Baseball injury prevention quiz is a fast, easy and painless way to get your coaches thinking “SAFETY FIRST” every time they take the field. When they go through the interactive 26-slide quiz, they’ll learn to be on the lookout for dangerous hazards and activities. Nothing better prepares them for keeping their players safe.
Some of the topics covered:
Field Inspection
What to look for before anyone sets foot on the field — uneven surfaces, debris, fencing, and equipment left where it doesn’t belong.
During Play
Who needs a helmet, where non-participating players belong, and why it matters every single inning.
Vigilance
Active supervision isn’t passive presence. Coaches learn to continuously ask “How could someone be injured?” and act on the answer before something goes wrong.
Finally
The reminders that sound obvious until they aren’t — Swinging bats, throwing balls, and leaving kids unattended all could bring disastrous consequences that can be avoided.
Founder/Creator
Brian Gotta is Founder and President of CoachDeck (www.coachdeck.com), the number one coach training resource in North America. He is also President of Upstart Sports (www.upstartsports.com) and Supportive Parent (www.supportiveparent.com), and author of Winning Secrets, a top-selling guide to coaching youth baseball.
His summer job for seven years in high school and college was coaching baseball in a community recreational program. He coached three games and one practice each day, five days a week, for eight weeks each summer — equating to around 840 games, or 42 twenty-game seasons of youth league baseball.
He then married and had four children — three boys and a girl, all separated in age by two years — and coached each of them in baseball and softball until they reached high school. His Little League coaching career spanned roughly 400 games and another 400 or so practices. He also coached travel ball for nine years, with teams sometimes playing 70 games in a 12-month period, while also helming several seasons of his daughter’s softball. It would be conservative to estimate that he has overseen several thousand youth league games and practices.
In that time he has seen enough injuries and near-misses that safety has become a passion of his. The purpose of SAFE Baseball is to share that experience so that every child in your care — and you — can have a safe and enjoyable season on the diamond.