Podcast appearances and mentions of mark sorenson

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In this special Christmas Eve version of Weekend Sport, we have plenty of updates, interviews, and talkback featured here today! Highlights include:  NZ Softball with Mark Sorenson. Black Caps featuring Devon Conway, Tom Blundell, and Michael Bracewell. Wellington Phoenix wrap up with Ufuk Talay. Wellington Cricket CEO Cam Mitchell. The great Honey Badger, Nick Cummins on the Black Clash. Sarah Jacobs, WLG Cricket Museum curator. Jacob Spoonley, former All White. Will Johnston, ground announcer at Basin Reserve. Sofia Huerta, US women's footballer ahead of next year's World Cup. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another World Cup tournament is on our shores and begins this weekend, when New Zealand play the Czech Republic in the opening game of the men's softball World Cup in Auckland. While the seven-time champion Black Sox have traditionally dominated the event, they are far from favourites this year, having dropped to sixth in the world rankings. Joining us is Black Sox coach and former captain of the side Mark Sorenson.

In episode fifteen of The Global Game, the official podcast from the World Baseball and Softball Confederation, New Zealand male softball team head coach Mark Sorenson, chatted with Tyler Maun about the upcoming World Cup on home soil, his expectations and how he made the transition from the field to the dugout. Join us and be part of the Global Game.

Mark Sorenson joins Staffy after yesterdays Black Sox Squad naming as they prepare to head to the World Champs!

Black Sox Coach Mark Sorenson joins the show to talk about their preparations for the upcoming Softball World Cup to be held in Auckland this December, player depth & availability, health of the game & diamond sports in NZ & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The biggest one that we're looking at in the first segment is Argentina the defending champs." Mark Sorenson on what the Black Sox can expect from their pool play matchups, the super round & competition format Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1993, school boy Mark Sorenson got 20/20 for an essay about the dangers of plastic packaging. 29 years later Mark and his business partner and wife, Ellie, have established Cleanery, a kiwi start-up that's attracted millions in venture capital and now has products ranged across NZ and Australian supermarkets. Cleanery removes the water and the plastic bottle from household cleaners, offering instead a sachet of cleaning powder. Simply tip the powder into any bottle, add warm water, and presto, you've got the beginnings of a sparkling clean bathroom or kitchen.   Declaration of interest: Vincent does some consulting work for Cleanery and has invested a tiny fraction via the Climate Venture Capital Fund.

Today's guest on NZ Sporting History is considered to be part of Softball Royalty: Mark Sorenson r

Mark Sorenson joined the show to talk all things softball with Mark Watson.

Don Tricker is One of the most sort after high performance coaches in the world & will headline episode 34 of Beyond The Dugout. Be prepared for a thought provoking episode like no other. Let's just start with 2 x WBSC World Champion Coach with our Softball New Zealand Golden Homes Black Sox!! 2004 New Zealand Order of Merit, 2000 Halberg Coach of the Year….. and that's just the tip of the mountain of achievements we would like to nickname “The Don” has accomplished. In the famous words of the God Farther Don Vito Corleone: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. ... 2004 he talked the goat Mark Sorenson out of retirement to help the NZ Black Sox win on home soil in front of the world. Black Sox coaches have gone on the achieve amazing high performance roles, but none more than Tricker… High Performance with Sport NZ, All Blacks, Silver ferns, Olympics & now the San Diego Padres. His roots are with Porirua, PK & Wellington first as an elite player which included time for the Black Sox between 1986 and 1991. Episode 34 with Don Tricker Friday 6pm NZT 10 December 2021 Beyond The Dugout with hosts Jason Gerbes aka Chopper & Damian Michael Patrick Collins bringing weekly guests from the best that Fastpitch Softball has ever seen. Beyond The Dugout podcast available everywhere possible like Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts iHeartRadio iTunes Podbean

What do you get when you have a best mate who you get to pick his brain about the legends he got to share the diamond with before you get to interview that legend, over coffee in the kitchen?... A surprise Episode 25 of Beyond the Dugout with very special guest Chris Steffensen. Chrispy to most has won all but one club title in NZ Softball, a Two Time NFC Champion, One time Club National Champion (as he likes to say the last time PK won the Clubs) he has played the game at most levels with some of the best to ever play the game. From early days in Totara Park to Hutt City United before getting tapped on the shoulder by the great one Mark Sorenson to play for Cardinals and then being part of a new era of PK Softball plus a couple of stints in the ISCs to be full circle back to Totara Park. Should he have been mentioned in with some of the greats after a very promising young career, YES! But life gets in the way and Chris gets very honest about how a young talents attitude & mind can change in the game & what he has learned looking back. Now a Deputy Principal, Chris has a gift to communicate with a teaching nature and that's why Damian is so proud that he got him back into Softball after some time away from the game, going back to their junior club. Now he is combining his new love of softball with his skills of teaching & it truly is something special to see. This week what it's about, just mates talking some ball, sharing thoughts & journey's, easy to do when you're in each other's bubble.   So, sit back and enjoy Beyond The Dugout with hosts Jason Gerbes aka Chopper & Damian Collins bringing weekly guests from the best that Fastpitch Softball has ever seen. Beyond The Dugout podcast available everywhere possible like, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, iTunes & Podbean

Welcome everyone to Beyond The Dugout Episode 20 with Softball New Zealand's legendary Slugger Donny Hale 28th August 2021.    Tonight's episode is an exclusive to first announce Donny's Hales induction to the SNZ Hall of Fame!! This episode is more like a version of this is your life…. With a bunch of surprises for Donny as we go along. We hope you all enjoy Donny's story as he has dazzled fans all over the world with his Massive home runs!! For 20 years, the ‘Halestorm' - three-time Black Sox world champion Donny Hale - was of the most feared and respected softball sluggers in the world. Donny – who is still playing professionally in Japan today in his mid-40s - drifted into softball as a youngster in Auckland after being star-struck watching New Zealand power hitters Ian Stringer and Murray McLean blasting home runs in a television game in the 1980s. Drawn to Mt Roskill's Fearon Park, Donny set the scene for a career as a hitter by slamming three homes in his first game as a 10-year-old. Like a lot of other talented Black Sox athletes, he first made his mark for Auckland, and was selected as such for his Black Sox tour to North America in 1994. There was a logjam of pitching talent in New Zealand then, and it took a couple of years for Donny to resurface in a Black Sox jersey. The 1.95m all-rounder reinvented himself as a long ball hitter after initially adding 15kg in the gym to give him more speed on the mound. “I decided that hitting the ball was more fun,'' Donny said in Relentless, the book devoted to the Black Sox's 2004 world championship title victory. “I wanted to be the guy who hit the home runs.'' For the next 15 or so years, he was just that – a regular in the middle of a power-packed New Zealand batting unit collectively acclaimed as the best the game has seen. Donny – who earned 110 Black Sox caps - went on to dominate pitchers in elite competitions in New Zealand, North America and Japan, winning titles everywhere he went. For all his innate physical gifts, Donny was also renowned for being a student of the game, particularly the art of hitting a ball long and far.  He talked at length with Mark Sorenson about the mental aspects of hitting and gleaned a lot of insights too from playing and coaching overseas. At one point, Donny was even writing a regular column about batting for a Japanese softball magazine. While power was Donny's most obvious asset, former Black Sox coach Don Tricker once said it was his bat speed that set him apart. “I think he has the potential to be the best batter we have ever produced,'' Tricker said in 2004. “Every time he hits the ball, he's a legitimate home run threat.'' Hale hammered two home runs in his first world title winning tournament with the Black Sox in 2000 and was also in the heart of the line-up for the 2004 triumph in Christchurch, where he batted .444. Donny's final gold medal came at home in Auckland in 2013 and he won his final cap a season later, 20 years after his first. In his prime, he won the New Zealand Player of the Year award four times – including three years in a row from 2001 to 2003. A regular visitor to the International Softball Congress tournament – North America's prestige club competition – Donny's name still features prominently on the honours board. He is tied for the most home runs at a tournament (7, shared with Jarrad Martin and Patrick Shannon) and for most RBIs (17, shared with Wayne Laulu). He is also in a three-way tie at the top of the charts for most home runs in a game (3). Donny's dominance was underlined in 2012 when he was named MVP after 17 RBIs and a .529 average in leading Ontario's Broken Bow Travelers to a third consecutive title. Back home, Donny won countless national interclub titles with Ramblers and national provincial crowns with Auckland, serving as player-coach in some successful campaigns. Japan has long been the base for Donny and his long-time partner, former White Sox outfielder Sina Hunkin, but he has recently returned to give back some of his vast knowledge of the game as assistant-coach for the NZ White Sox. It's a completion of a circle as Donny and White Sox head coach Roman Gabriel were teammates from junior level right through to the Black Sox.   So sit back and enjoy Beyond The Dugout with hosts Jason Gerbes aka Chopper & Damian Michael Patrick Collins bringing weekly guests from the best that Fastpitch Softball has ever seen.    Beyond The Dugout podcast available everywhere possible like Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts iHeartRadio iTunes Podbean

Welcome everyone to Beyond The Dugout Episode 5 with the great Mark Sorenson.   The Hall of Famer Sorenson has achieved everything in Softball domestically and internationally as a player and a coach over the last 5 decades.   Mark's 20 year playing career for the Golden Homes Softball New Zealand Black Sox included 5 World Tiles and since retiring in 2004 he has added another one for good measure as the now Coach at the WBSC World Championships in 2017.   Mark also had a stellar career overseas playing over 18 years while gaining 12 all-world selections & winning another haul of championships to add to the cabinet.   Hear all about Marks career, stories, adjustments to coaching, being the most decorated Softballer in NZ, ISC Fast Pitch, & his beloved Hutt Valley Cardinals.   It's a long one but how do you cut down someone that is referred to in some circles as the Greatest Of All Time? You don't, it's just not right to, plus we tried it's hard, we loved it!!!    So sit back and enjoy Beyond The Dugout with hosts Jason Gerbes aka Chopper & Damian Collins, bringing weekly guests from the best that Fastpitch Softball has ever seen.     Beyond The Dugout podcast available everywhere possible like Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts iHeartRadio iTunes Podbean

What was learned from the worst NZ result at a World Championship in over 30 years, what qualities will the next Black Sox captain have and what will it take for NZ Softball to be great again. Mark Sorenson, coach of Softball New Zealand's Black Sox joins the Kick-Off Sports Breakfast Show on Beach FM 106.3 with Damian Collins. Mark gets very real on what they took away from the last World Champs in Prague, how we can bridge the gap from tee ball to softball & how coaching under 11s has been very good for him, how we need to have more personalities in the game, how the postponement of the next World Championships will be a good thing and maybe going back to every 4 years could be better and much much more. The Kick Off Breakfast Show with Damian Collins, Saturdays 7am to 10am on Beach FM 106.3 in Kapiti & Horowhenua and Listen Live anywhere on www.beachfm.co.nz

With the Black Sox away in Czech Republic at the Softball World Championships, we look back at Staf's conversation with the coach of that side, Mark Sorenson.

Mark Sorenson is New Zealand's greatest softballer and one of the country's most accomplished sports people. He chats to Staf about his life in softball from being a six year old bat boy for New Zealand in Lower Hutt to winning world titles, playing in the US and his big opportunity in MLB.

Joe and the web guys talk to Mark Sorenson CEO/Founder 'Social Media High Rise' in Chico California. #1 Restaurant Social Media Management Social High Rise: Comprised of smart compassionate people who hustle, and who aren’t afraid to get out of their comfort zone. We love social media, love local businesses, and we love people. We work our tails off to make sure our clients are represented honestly and authentically through social media. We work together as a team to create things people love. Social High Rise was voted “Best Place to Work in Chico” two years in a row, by everyone who works at Social High Rise. #BUSINESSING Website: socialhighrise.com/

New Zealand are the men's softball world champions for the fifth time in just 21 years, defeating Australia 6-4 in Monday's final (NZT).The victory caps off a near-flawless tournament for the Black Sox, who regain the world title they last won on home soil in 2013.Coach Mark Sorenson joined Mark Watson to discuss the game.He said he is very proud of his team."Everybody was bright eyed and bushy tailed and certainly ready for what lay ahead...it was just great that the boys were able to bounce back and I am just so proud of them."LISTEN ABOVE AS MARK SORENSON SPEAKS WITH MARK WATSON

New Zealand are the men's softball world champions for the fifth time in just 21 years, defeating Australia 6-4 in Monday's final (NZT).The victory caps off a near-flawless tournament for the Black Sox, who regain the world title they last won on home soil in 2013.Coach Mark Sorenson joined Mark Watson to discuss the game.He said he is very proud of his team."Everybody was bright eyed and bushy tailed and certainly ready for what lay ahead...it was just great that the boys were able to bounce back and I am just so proud of them."LISTEN ABOVE AS MARK SORENSON SPEAKS WITH MARK WATSON

On Extra Time this week, we look back at the historic All Blacks match against Samoa in Apia, Steve Tew discusses the upcoming Lions Tour and looks back at the success of the Samoa test. Professional golfer Danny Lee becomes the first New Zealander since Michael Campbell to win on the PGA Tour. Black Sox coach Mark Sorenson shares his thoughts on the team's efforts at the Softball World Champs. Radio New Zealand International reporter Vinnie Wylie shares all the details from the Pacific Games and New Zealand Warriors prop Charlie Gubb talks about playing in the top tier of Rugby League.

On Extra Time this week, we look back at the historic All Blacks match against Samoa in Apia, Steve Tew discusses the upcoming Lions Tour and looks back at the success of the Samoa test. Professional golfer Danny Lee becomes the first New Zealander since Michael Campbell to win on the PGA Tour. Black Sox coach Mark Sorenson shares his thoughts on the team's efforts at the Softball World Champs. Radio New Zealand International reporter Vinnie Wylie shares all the details from the Pacific Games and New Zealand Warriors prop Charlie Gubb talks about playing in the top tier of Rugby League.

Learn the Value of Sunlight and Vitamin D in ED (Part 1) and 25 Years of Experience "Reversing" Type 2 Diabetes with a High Carb, Low-Fat, Plant-Based Diet with Sunlight and Exercise (Part 2) Kirk Hamilton interviews Dr. Mark Sorenson (EdD) who formerly raised cattle before converting to a plant-based diet who has been a health educator, author and has run health resorts for more than 25 years with his wife Vickie using a high carbohydrate, low-fat, plant-based diet with sunlight, exercise and herbs (no supplements) to reduce weight and chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. In Part 1 (4:00-17:00 mm:ss) of this interview Dr. Sorenson shares his health resort experiences applying these simple modalities in reversing chronic conditions and he shares his conclusions regarding vitamin D, but more importantly sunlight, as a means to lower not only cardiovascular risk but also to improve erectile dysfunction. In Part 2 (17:10-43:25 mm:ss) of the interview Dr. Sorensen shares his decades of experience with his high carbohydrate, low-fat dietary approach (and exercise and environmental) to reversing type 2 diabetes. Dr. Sorenson and his wife currently run a health resort, and he is the author of multiple books and papers, including most recentlly "Vitamin D and Solar Power," and "Does Vitamin D Deficiency Contribute to Erectile Dysfunction?" (Dermatoendocrinol. 2012 Apr 1;4(2):128-36) Download or Open:

The first of a three-part series that takes you behind the scenes at airshows.  In this episode, Airspeed takes you out to show center with the pyro crew at the 2012 TICO Valiant Air Command Warbird Airshow with Mark Sorenson and James Hammons of Tiger Airshows and The Ringmasters.

In Extra Time this week, the All Blacks captain Richie McCaw talks about his return to rugby after six months off. We hear from Breakers star Tom Abercrombie as he embarks on what he hopes will be the start of an NBA career. Can ten thousand hours of dedicated training get to you to the top of sport? We hear from someone who's giving it a go, and one of New Zealand's best ever softballers, Mark Sorenson takes over the coaching reins at the Black Sox.

In Extra Time this week, the All Blacks captain Richie McCaw talks about his return to rugby after six months off. We hear from Breakers star Tom Abercrombie as he embarks on what he hopes will be the start of an NBA career. Can ten thousand hours of dedicated training get to you to the top of sport? We hear from someone who's giving it a go, and one of New Zealand's best ever softballers, Mark Sorenson takes over the coaching reins at the Black Sox.