For every nice story like these there is 100s of stories about high school coaches that play girls based on body type/size etc. My 5'2" freshman daughter pitched a no hitter in her only Varsity start. She also pitched virtually every inning on the JV team that year, I believe they were 9-1. The...
I recommend Hillhouse if he's within your range of travel. He is in PA, somewhere in north western part of the state I believe. Bill is without a doubt a master of the IR pitching method.
Pitch counts are a must to protect young arms...Unfortunately we depend on travel ball coaches to police this on their own. Which becomes a balancing act between trophies and development.
Too much practice for her age, not enough time with PC. Try to see PC once a week and work during the week to reinforce what PC see in lesson, maybe 4 times a week for 30-40 minutes max (she needs time to recuperate) practicing with overworked or very sore muscle will reinforce bad habits. Just...
Hey Bill, good to see you're still involved with fastpitch. Not sure you remember us, you used to come to NJ to give my daughter lessons. I hope you're doing well.
Mike MacMullen (Sam's dad)
There is no competitive advantage gained by crow hopping. By the time the pitcher "replants" the ball is out of her hand, So no physical second push off happens than would impact pitching performance.
In my DD freshman year of high school ball the umpire who just finished calling the game that my daughter pitched was walking to his car at the same time we were turned to me and said she's really good but too small to ever pitch in college. She had just basically mowed down the entire line up...
My 2 cents for what it's worth. My 18 yo (now retired) DD has been to 3 pitching coaches in her pitching career (9-17). Bill Hillhouse was her second to last one (yes, in person instruction), Bill's reason for "no backswing" was to hide the ball from the 3rd base coach and the batter for as long...
My now retired 18 yr DD is/was an I/R pitcher. I/R came naturally to my DD, her first pitching coach was a H/E coach but to her credit realized my DD was not going to change. We eventually moved on to a coach that was more in tune to I/R, she actually was going to Bill Hillhouse for a while. I...