Michelle Gardner
Michelle Gardner
Michelle "Mikey" Gardner, formerly Michelle Bolster, is an American softball coach and former player. She has been the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers softball team since 2009. She previously served as the head coach at the University of Nevada from 2003 to 2008. She also served as an assistant softball coach at Arizona Stateand Florida State...
class confident core critical definitely good leadership program senior success true
This my first true senior class. We definitely have more versatility. We've got a good core leadership group, which is critical to a program and the success of the team. I feel confident with where we are.
bit played
It was a little bit cold, but we played well. Everybody's got to play in the same elements.
beat came easily games laid lost mexico struggled third three won
We have struggled a little bit, but after getting beat two games in New Mexico we came back and won the third game, which to me is huge, we could have very easily laid down and lost three games.
against baby gave matter portland putting side spark state step taking tough
It doesn't matter who's on the other side of the field, you have to come out and play. Against Portland State (on Friday), I don't think we gave up, but I don't think we had the spark we had in the first game. I want to keep putting them out there in tough situations, and to know we can get back-to-back wins, it's a big step for us, right this second, and we're taking baby steps.
ball everybody finally games hits needed played
Those first two games we played awesome, we just didn't get the hits when we needed to. We finally made some adjustments at the plate. Everybody hit the ball well.
defense great played spark
She was the spark plug. She played great defense too.
excited gets phenomenal plug spark weekend
She had a phenomenal weekend and I'm really excited to have her. She is the spark plug we needed. She competes and she just gets it done.
athletics dad developed harder kids killer nicest
She has athletics in her background. Her dad is harder on her than I could ever be. She has developed that killer instinct, but she's one of the nicest kids you'll ever meet.
against confidence games kept losing needed pushing runs three top
We just kept pushing, pushing, pushing and we got the runs we needed. They needed a little confidence after losing three games against Top 25 teams.
defense effort few great hitting kids matter mistakes played pleased runs solid
When you don't score, it doesn't matter how many runs you give up. We played very solid defense. We made a few mistakes here and there, but really, for the most part, our defense did a great job. Our hitting is going to come around. I'm very pleased with the effort the kids gave. They played hard.
days extremely factor good huge kids last news outside ready since test three weekend worked
This will be a good test for us. The good news is it's everybody's first weekend out. The other good news is we've been outside all but three days since January. Last year, I think it was a huge factor that we hadn't been outside. We should be ready to go. The kids have worked extremely hard. I'm excited. What's another week going to do? Nothing. Let's go play.
prove putting stock
We're not putting much stock into it. That's what they think and your only thing is to prove them wrong.
build hoping needed
We really just did the things we needed to do to win. I'm hoping it will build momentum.
against bottom couple felt good key line loss played recover took trying wisconsin
We actually played very well against Stanford. I felt pretty good about that game. We had a couple of key errors, which, against Stanford, you can't have. The bottom line is we're learning, we're still getting better. Against Wisconsin it took us a while. Some of it is trying to recover from that loss and then going right back out on the field.