Crazy Softball Guy
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- May 31, 2013
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I don't know if you are wrong or not to feel the way you feel. But "Confronting the coach after practice" is not the way to handle it.
IMHO you need to back off and let your child handle the interactions with the coaches. Use your experience and knowledge to coach up your child and help her improve.
Agree with this 100%. Ultimately, the only person that is hurt when a parent complains to a coach about their DD's playing time, armed with stats in hand, is the DD. Let the coaches coach and make the decisions. It's great that your DD struck out 10 batters in one game. However, coaches look at what's in the best interest of the TEAM. Back off, and let your DD deal with the coaching staff and fight her own battles. Constantly approaching the coach about playing time is going to make things even worse for her (it's obvious it hasn't worked). Instead of crying to you, she could ask the coach exactly what she needs to do to prove she's worthy of more mound time or being able to practice with the varsity team, then she needs to go do it. There's 'politics' at every level - rec, TB, HS, and there are always going to be parents who feel their kid is being slighted. How you and your DD handle it will be the key to success.