DD is starting her second year of MS softball. This will be her fourth year playing SB and third year pitching. She had trouble with control during MS last year. Worked on it over the summer and winter and is doing much better.
Now the issue... according to DD, the catcher on the MS team (same grade) is making pitchers do HER (the catcher's) version of warmups. According to DD (taken with a grain of salt), the catcher says "you need to do 50 wrist flips and hit my chest, if you miss, I start counting over". Another example, catcher had DD and #1 pitcher (who both go to same pitching coach so they do the same warmups) do a 'special k'(?) warmup where they had to balance on one leg for 10 seconds before pitching.
No team practices until next Monday (another story). My feeling (and what I plan on telling DD)... if catcher presents a "requirement" as part of warmups, calmly thank the catcher for trying to help, but she already has a routine she wants to stick to. If the catcher argues, DD should simply say "let's go talk to the coach". I'm going to stress to DD she needs to be calm and not confrontational (these are 12yo's though).
Is it possible the coach told the catcher how she wanted pitchers to warm up (which doesn't make sense to me, why not tell the pitchers AND catchers)?
Is the catcher (who has been playing the game longer than DD) trying to show off her authority (which I don't know that she has)?
At the parent meeting the coach told players and parents that if there's an issue, she'd like the girls to come to her instead of parents talking to the coach.
If DD continues playing SB, she'll be with this catcher probably for the next 6 years (MS & HS). Both girls were on the MS basketball team this year too. They seem to be friendly to each other, so I don't know what this is all about. I'm not there, I just have what DD tells me.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Now the issue... according to DD, the catcher on the MS team (same grade) is making pitchers do HER (the catcher's) version of warmups. According to DD (taken with a grain of salt), the catcher says "you need to do 50 wrist flips and hit my chest, if you miss, I start counting over". Another example, catcher had DD and #1 pitcher (who both go to same pitching coach so they do the same warmups) do a 'special k'(?) warmup where they had to balance on one leg for 10 seconds before pitching.
No team practices until next Monday (another story). My feeling (and what I plan on telling DD)... if catcher presents a "requirement" as part of warmups, calmly thank the catcher for trying to help, but she already has a routine she wants to stick to. If the catcher argues, DD should simply say "let's go talk to the coach". I'm going to stress to DD she needs to be calm and not confrontational (these are 12yo's though).
Is it possible the coach told the catcher how she wanted pitchers to warm up (which doesn't make sense to me, why not tell the pitchers AND catchers)?
Is the catcher (who has been playing the game longer than DD) trying to show off her authority (which I don't know that she has)?
At the parent meeting the coach told players and parents that if there's an issue, she'd like the girls to come to her instead of parents talking to the coach.
If DD continues playing SB, she'll be with this catcher probably for the next 6 years (MS & HS). Both girls were on the MS basketball team this year too. They seem to be friendly to each other, so I don't know what this is all about. I'm not there, I just have what DD tells me.
Thoughts? Ideas?