She MAY play ball for four more years, she will have a career for another 40+. She should truly sit down and think about what she wants to do. I understand the desire to play college ball but I do not understand sacrificing a potential career field you love to do it.
Bottom, she should take...
I am having trouble understanding this. Is she getting hit quite a bit? You said the coach came out to talk after a strikeout. How does the coach know your daughter is not hitting locations? Is she standing behind the fence watching? Is the catcher telling her? Is she specifically talking about...
How would removing two rec coaches get you daughter blackballed? What power do two 10U rec coaches have in your town?
You're not cutting anyone, you are giving them a choice. You are the org head, correct? It is your responsibility to these kids to stand firm in what you set the team up for...
The question is "why is this?" How can they play so many games and practice as much as they do and still can't read a fly ball?
My guess (and this may not apply to your daughters team but I'm sure it very much applies elsewhere) is that the ladies are not allowed to fail. The coaches do not...
When it comes to game IQ and situational awareness in softball, I think it's opposite. They learn the most by experiencing the situation, either in a game or in practice. I think most people (especially young people) learn by doing, not watching. Most of the kids on my 14U team hardly watch any...
(I hope nobody takes this the wrong way, lol).
First, there are VERY few people (instructors and former/current pitchers) I have met who use the term IR outside of this forum. They teach most of same mechanics but could differ in some ways (such as brush).
I think it is very important that...
How would you justify to the player/parent that you are going to take something they are currently very successful at and make them not as successful (maybe even just in the short term) in the name of "proper mechanics?"
I get it, proper mechanics COULD (probably would) help the player out in...
Wow.
Honest question, what do the lights have to do with a ball taking a bad hop and hitting her in the face? Do you think this bad hop wouldn't of happened if she was in right field?
He is saying that if she plays right field then she plays left field (e.g. not a real difference), it's not like the coach asked her to play catcher without a mask on.
Somewhere along the line of the thread the discussion has morphed from "do you want your players trying to move out of the way of a pitch" to coaches "instructing players to lean into a pitch."
There is absolutely a difference here. Never in my life would I tell a batter to intentionally...