Sports article

Last year, a baseball team was formed at IGA. Tim B. was working with a Turkish baseball federation here in Turkey and decided that baseball should be continued at IGA. IGA agreed with Tim and decided that if he would coach it then they would get students to join.


The kids that signed up were all pretty new to baseball. “Most of the kids had not played baseball on a team before”, Coach Tim, but that did not seem to be too big of a problem. Because there were so many different ages of the kids that signed up, two different teams were made. One team was for older players ages 12-16, and the other one was for the younger kids from ages 9-11. Tim was the coach of the little league team.

Practice was held two days a week for two hours each of those days. “It was not enough, but the kids don’t usually have time for more practices,” says Coach Tim. To get his players prepared for practice, Coach Tim does stretches and practices throwing with the team.

When asked what was the most important part of baseball, he answered, “Having a good attitude and working as a team. Baseball is a team sport in which all players must work together for the team. Everyone gets a chance to be the one that the whole team relies on.” This was his favorite part of coaching. He really enjoyed it, and said that he will be coaching next season.

The baseball team is improving with practice and won 1 game out of 4 that were played. Next season, IGA baseball might have more competition because of the rising popularity of baseball in Turkey. Even so, IGA is always up for a challenge.