Considering that Rhonda Revelle is the winningest coach in the history of Nebraska (male or female) as well as the winningest softball coach in the program’s history, she’s done just about everything. While it’s been a while since she felt the ups of going to the Women’s College World Series since 2013, she still feels like her experience might be the reason things didn’t hit her as hard as she thought they might when NU won the super regional this past weekend.
It’s not that Revelle doesn’t feel the emotions all these years later; it’s just that she knows herself enough to know when she has to guard against her gut reactions. The Cornhuskers coach talked about that during the regionals as well. She had to talk to herself and make sure she was regulating what she was thinking, doing, and saying.
“So last year, after we won our first super regional game, my phone just started blowing up. We were one game away,” she explained to the assembled Nebraska media on Monday. “And I started— i didn’t, I don’t know that—I felt the weight of it, I felt all the love. And in feeling all that love, I’m like, it just was overwhelming. The emotion was overwhelming to the point that can I still function the way I need to function? And I thought, you know what, if we get ourselves in that situation again, I need to make sure that I’ve got parameters around my emotions because I’m an emotional person. And so I think I’ve just put the guardrails up a little bit.”…