COURTESY GRAHAM HAYS -- espnW.com
Stay in the present. Take one pitch at a time.
They are cliches, to be sure, but when Texas State's Randi Rupp cites their successful completion as sources of satisfaction from the week that was, the sentiment carries the ring of expertise.
Few college pitchers, after all, spend as much of their present in the circle. Few have so many opportunities to focus on the next pitch. None made better use of a workload a week ago than the junior who is espnW's softball player of the week for both quality and quantity of her work.