China News Service, Beijing, July 7th. According to the China Softball Association, the 2022 "China Hainan Fangyuan International Art Village" Cup China Softball League is in full swing in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and the Jiangsu team has won Shanghai, Tianjin and Sichuan in the first four games. , Guangdong, won four consecutive victories after the start of the game.
Speaking of the match against the Zhejiang team, Jiangsu team coach Huang Weigang said that he is looking forward to it. Although there are national team players on the opposite side, the players are all gearing up to compete with the national team. momentum.
Why is the Jiangsu women's baseball team so strong?
Since the official establishment of the team in 2002, the Jiangsu team has been cutting waves and standing out from the provincial teams.
In 2005, in the 10th Jiangsu National Games, the Jiangsu team won the sixth place. In 2009, the 11th Shandong National Games stood on the podium and won the bronze medal. Then they sang all the way, and won the 12th consecutive year in 2013. The three-time champion of the Liaoning National Games, the 13th Tianjin National Games in 2017, and the three-time Shaanxi National Games in 2021, plus the championship of the 12th National Softball Championship, Jiangsu women's baseball has an unparalleled position in the national softball field. Shaking is undoubtedly the strongest provincial team in the country, so that before the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, the goal of other provincial teams is clearly "impacting the Jiangsu team".
Compared with other provinces, the Jiangsu team was not established very early.
Song Qiuyuan, director of the Education Committee of the Chinese Softball Association and former head coach of the Jiangsu team, said: "When I participated in the National Games for the first time, there were a total of 9 teams, and each team was a senior."
Since it was established late, why can it overtake in a corner?
Has it become the object that the provincial teams want to surpass?
Song Qiuyuan said: "The development of Jiangsu softball did not happen overnight, but step by step, gradually moving towards glory."
After the 9th Guangdong National Games in 2001, Jiangsu began to plan to establish its own softball team, hoping to take the opportunity of the National Games to develop softball.
So, at the beginning of 2002, Jiangsu began to recruit troops, looking for softball talents all over the country.
The beginning of everything is difficult, and the process from zero to one is often full of hardships.
Facing the dilemma of lack of softball talents and a late start, Jiangsu women's softball can only select players from the softball students who have just started training at the Jiangsu Wuxi Xishan Amateur Sports School and the Jiangsu Amateur Sports School's basketball team and volleyball youth team.
With the efforts of all parties, the Jiangsu softball team was established on the basis of blank paper.
After its establishment, Jiangsu adopted the method of provincial teams and schools, and the teams were resident in Nanjing University of Technology, and embarked on the road of integrated development of sports and education.
Things have sweetness and bitterness, and those who taste them know; Tao has dangers, and those who walk them know.
The newly established Jiangsu team embarked on a long journey under the "three noes" conditions of no venue, no equipment, and no technology.
In 2003, Jiangsu women's softball first signed up to participate in a national softball competition held in Chengdu. As expected, the result was the bottom.
The temporary defeat did not blind the Jiangsu women's baseball team from looking forward to the future.
Jiangsu Women's Baseball has formulated the "631" target plan, which is to achieve the sixth, third and first places in the three National Games.
It is not too bold to put forward such a goal when it was first established. Judging from the results, Jiangsu Women's Baseball can be called "a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers".
Song Qiuyuan introduced: "The goal of the first team of the Jiangsu Provincial Team is to fight for survival." Although the Jiangsu Sports Bureau did not set a goal for the newly established team at that time, if the results were too poor, it would be doubtful whether the team could be retained.
"There was a sense of crisis in the team preparing for the battle," Song Qiuyuan said.
Thanks to the good educational environment of Nanjing University of Technology and Song Qiuyuan's emphasis on team management, Jiangsu women's baseball has made rapid progress.
Song Qiuyuan organized the whole team to listen to a lecture by a teacher from Nanjing University of Technology when the team was not nervous about the training task.
Outside of the class, Song Qiuyuan led everyone to level the venue and clean the dormitory.
Song Qiuyuan said: "To do this is to strengthen team cohesion. The atmosphere of a sports team is very important. From a certain perspective, I think team management is more important than training. Only good management can be accepted by athletes and can bring strong performance. Team unity."
In 2005, in order to further strengthen the ideological construction of the team, Jiangsu Women's Baseball established a party branch - the Third Party Branch of the Sports Department of Nanjing University of Technology (renamed as Nanjing University of Technology Women's Baseball Branch in 2020).
In 2019, the Third Party Branch of the Sports Department of Nanjing University of Technology was included in the list of the second batch of "National Party Building Demonstration Universities" by the General Office of the Ministry of Education.
Huang Weigang has the same understanding: "One of the main reasons for the rise of Jiangsu women's baseball team is to strictly control team management and pay attention to team building." Huang Weigang believes that only by strictly grasping team management can they mobilize their self in life and on the field. Management skills, self-driven motivation.
Huang Weigang also told a small story.
"When a player who had just joined the team was cheering for her teammates on the sidelines, she subconsciously covered her ears because the teammate's voice was too loud. She just had an instinctive reaction, but at this time, the old players in the team came forward to tell her and help her. Quickly integrate into the team, that's cohesion."
So there is a scene at the beginning of the article.
With a positive and enthusiastic team atmosphere to protect, the effect of training will naturally be multiplied with half the effort.
Huang Weigang told the players that the time when we really need to work hard is during training and enjoying it during the game.
"In these few days of competition, what we are most tired of is not our body, but our throat. 'Golden Throat' has eaten a lot, haha." Huang Weigang laughed.
At the same time, Jiangsu Women's Baseball started the road of communication in 2004, and successively went to China Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to participate in the competition, in order to improve the team's actual combat experience in the competition.
Song Qiuyuan introduced: "We have established a long-term cooperative and exchange relationship with Japan's Toyota Softball Club. By participating in the 'Toyota Cup' competition, the athletes have grown rapidly and benefited a lot." Such exchanges continued until 2019, until the outbreak of the epidemic. stop.
In this way, with the support of many parties, the Jiangsu softball team worked with one heart and the whole army to achieve the sixth place in the 10th Jiangsu National Games, achieving the goal of the first step.
In the subsequent 2009 Shandong National Games, Jiangsu Women's Baseball proposed "fight for development" and handed over the bronze medal answer sheet. Later in the 2013 Liaoning National Games, the goal of "fight for honor" was determined.
"The enemy's road is narrow. In the Liaoning National Games, we faced the host Liaoning team in the final, but we still withstood the pressure and won the championship." Song Qiuyuan recalled.
Then came the "Fight for Glory" in the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, which achieved the hegemony of the National Games' three consecutive championships. Such a record will surely leave an indelible mark in the history of Chinese softball development.
In this regard, Song Qiuyuan said: "It is actually very difficult to win three consecutive championships. In the face of the impact of the provincial teams and the improvement of China's softball development environment in recent years, 'It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country', we must continue to cultivate The new core players and the old players went to the sports bureau to be the head coach at the grassroots level, which also propped up the sky and laid the foundation for the long-term development of the Jiangsu softball project." As Song Qiuyuan said, this time in the Chinese Women's Softball League, on the field There are many young and new faces.
Don't ask for near work, don't worry about small work.
Boldly training new players in the heyday of the team requires great courage and courage, but Jiangsu softball ranks first in the strength of the provincial team all the year round, which is also the benefit.
All the way through thorns and thorns, all the way to write brilliant.
The Jiangsu women's baseball team, who is at its peak, has never forgotten its original intention in the forward movement. The work of team management has kept pace with the times in the inheritance. This is also a question that Song Qiuyuan and Huang Weigang often think about.
Huang Weigang said: "We need to pass on the wealth that Guidance Song (Song Qiuyuan) left to the team, and at the same time think about what areas need to be improved."
From the field to the field, from the coaches to the players, you can feel the energy of this team, a spirit of selflessness and love.
"This is a manifestation of the spirit of Jiangsu women's baseball. The spirit of Jiangsu women's baseball has become one of the three major spirits in the spiritual spectrum of Nanjing University of Technology, including four levels of dedication, hard work, perseverance, and collaboration." Huang Weigang said.
From the original project to Nanjing University of Technology, and benefited from the good atmosphere of educating people, now the spirit of Jiangsu women's baseball has become one of the spiritual connotations of the school, feeding back the spiritual and cultural construction of Nanjing University of Technology, which has become a widely circulated period in Jiangsu sports circles. 's story.
With the rise of the Jiangsu softball team, the training of reserve talents for softball projects has also begun. The first benefit is that Nanjing University of Technology - China Softball Academy is listed, the softball school team is established, and the school-level softball league and baseball and softball cultural festivals continue to compete. As an elective course, softball was rush repaired by students, and the period was full.
Outside the school, the youth training camp is very lively. The four cities of Nanjing, Changzhou, Wuxi and Yangzhou are connected together, and the training camp is season after season.
Huang Weigang introduced: "We have also explored the centralized training of athletes in different positions since last year to improve the pertinence of the training camp."
"The record in the U series is the best proof. We are the top three in the competition. In last year's national U15 series, the champion of the sports school group was Wuxi team, and the champion of the general school team was Nanjing team." Huang Weigang proudly Said, he also revealed that now Suzhou and Lianyungang have also taken steps to cultivate softball reserve talents.
It is worth mentioning that the head coaches of Nanjing Jiangning Senior High School, Changzhou Senior High School, Wuxi Xishan Sports School, and Yangzhou Yizheng Youth Team (Jiangsu Province) were all professional athletes brought out by Song Qiuyuan. This is consistent with the strengthening of the training of grass-roots coaches.
Nearly 20 years of persistence and exploration have achieved today's brilliance - athletes who have been transferred from amateur sports schools to softball events have become the main players of the "Triple Crown King" of the Jiangsu National Games; Jiangsu women's baseball is a national player. The team has sent a group of excellent softball players; the current national team's ace pitcher Wang Lan was selected by Song Qiuyuan from Gansu at that time.
Jiangsu has truly become the "black land" for the development of China's softball program.
Song Qiuyuan said: "Looking back at the rise of the Jiangsu team and the development of Jiangsu softball, from a difficult start and many difficulties to three consecutive championships in the National Games and 12 consecutive championships, it is inseparable from the China Softball Association and the provinces, cities, schools, etc. With the strong support of all parties, it is hoped that Jiangsu Women's Softball can contribute more Jiangsu strength to the development of Chinese softball.
Huang Weigang also said: "The holding of the China Softball League has strengthened our confidence in the development of the softball project, and it is also a precious opportunity for the team, which can improve our players in terms of experience, technology, awareness and other aspects. , we hope that more outstanding softball players will emerge from Jiangsu in the future to help the development of softball in China."
Speaking of the development of softball in Jiangsu, Yang Xu, chairman of the China Softball Association, gave a thumbs up. He said: "One Jiangsu team is not enough. I hope the provincial teams can take this league as an opportunity to cultivate more fertile softballs like Jiangsu. Soil!" (End)