Philosophies & Culture
Culture
The mission of Top Dog Performance Center and Top Dog Softball is to build a family friendly culture: A culture that is committed to the fundamentals and principles of the game, where growth and future success is the by product of this foundational work. In the Top Dog family we are ALL IN FOR EACH OTHER! No one gets better by themselves. We teach team values and morals while developing highly competitive athletes and people. The Top Dog culture creates environments that foster growth in athletics, academics, and personal characteristics. This culture is all about teaching our youth to give everything they have to help raise and better others.
The Top Dog Staffs will instill a deep level of respect for tradition and what it will take to achieve excellence on and off the field. The Top Dog Staff and families lead by example in showing respect for the game, respect for themselves, and every individual apart of helping our athletes become the best they can possibly be.
As a member of the Top Dog family we are energy givers, maintaining a positive attitude and outlook. We bring maximum effort every day. We make no excuses for bad days. Our athletes learn athletics is about failure and in the small umbrella of things they can control their attitude and effort will always remain in their control. We expect our athletes, families, and coaches to maintain a positive attitude and give all of their efforts to be ALL IN FOR EACH OTHER. There is no room for negativity, drama, and individualization.
The Top Dog family will maintain community involvement. The Top Dog family contributes to numerous community service events throughout the year including (but not limited to): food drives, clothing drives, school supply drives, and hours at the Poverello House. We encourage our athletes, families, and staff to be leaders in their community and example for others to follow. We encourage our parents and staff to be examples for our youth to follow in demonstrating the importance of giving back, and helping provide opportunities for our youth to gain a better understanding for the world around them.
The Top Dog program embodies principles of hard work and being the best version of yourself, you can possibly be, to help better others. This passion expresses itself as personal growth and success, and team growth and success on and off the field. The Top Dog family is all in for our country’s youth and helping build a stronger society for all!
Philosophy
The Top Dog philosophy stems from the idea of creating a strong foundation that will enable our athletes to be successful throughout the duration of their lives. Helping build successful individuals begins with a strong foundation that they can utilize to build on, grow, and develop in every aspect of their life. The Top Dog Staff strives to identify strengths and weaknesses, and works to help individuals embrace their strengths and develop their weaknesses. We prioritize our athletes’ development coming first and for that very reason we do not play 100+ games every year. We do not over use our pitchers and catchers. We break the year up into “off-season” and “in-season” training with intent and intensity to prepare our athletes for both seasons. We are here to put our athletes and the future of our communities first!