Jan 27, 2010

Softball Team Gears Up for 2010 Season with Judgment Day

NORTH ANDOVER, MA – This past weekend the Merrimack College softball team was the latest Warrior team to take part in the two-day team-building and leadership mini-camp known as Judgment Day put on by The Program Athletics.

The softball team is the fifth team at Merrimack this year—following men’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, men’s basketball and baseball—to undergo the Judgment Day experience.

Erik Kapitulik of The Program conducted the camp with the softball team on a Volpe Field at Merrimack College on Saturday covered with six inches of fresh snow. On Sunday, the team took to the pool at the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club for an off-shore endurance test.

The Program’s Judgment Day is a “mentally and physically challenging, team-building and leadership development training,” Kapitulik said. “Integrity, discipline and confidence are what we hope to instill in each of our student athletes.”

Judgment Day itself was brought to campus by Merrimack’s Strength and Conditioning Coach, Mike Kamal. It has been embraced by the Athletics Department at Merrimack College and will continue to enable varsity clubs to partake in the team-building sessions throughout the year.

“Of all the teams to have gone, these women showed some of the best initiative and teamwork yet,” Coach Kamal said on Monday morning. “This weekend was a success on so many levels. The ability for team leaders to entirely sacrifice their own well-being for their fellow teammates was something special to see.”

Entering her final season as a Warrior, senior catcher Jill Bradford (Stoneham, MA), for one, reflected on how the weekend set the tone for the 2010 season.

“Without a doubt, our team has grown closer and has learned ways in which we can apply our new teamwork and leadership skills throughout the upcoming season," Bradford said. “At one point or another throughout the weekend, each of us was forced out of our comfort zone and able to experience new levels of capability.”

Under the 2009 Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year, Elaine Schwager, the Warriors hope 2010 is another successful year, starting on March 5 when the team travels south to Florida for a tournament in Clermont, Florida. The Warriors open up at home on March 30 against Saint Michael's College for a doubleheader starting at 3:00pm.


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