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- Dec 18, 2014
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Can remember playing in conditions like that where there were rocks the size of quarters being flung around.This was a very windy tournament day of my daughter's. It was like this all day.
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There are good fields, bad fields and rocky fields every where. BUT, have you checked the baseball field ? If it is not rocky and in similar poor conditions; Title IX. You may not even have to use it, just mention it. It has helped me.
The last tournament we played, it looked like that between every game when the crew ran out and dragged the field. My DD pitched on a field last night that had at least 6 inch mounds of sand on both sides of her landing foot. I've never seen so much sand come out of one shoe before.This was a very windy tournament day of my daughter's. It was like this all day.
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Thats the best way to do it, keep moving up the chain. If the school AD cant do anything then get a meeting with the school district superintendent. Bring evidence, pictures comparing the two places showing the unequally. Especially if the facility is not ada compliant with ramps, that is another big issue the school district wants to fix as that could be a lawsuit they would want to avoid.Checked baseball facilities yesterday - no rocks, a couple little pebbles, nicely watered (or soil conditioners holding some moisture) and chalked and they didn't even have a game yesterday. Parents would be more than happy to get out there and drag the field - we're not allowed, "we'll take care of it" or "I'd do something but the coaches haven't complained". Our AD even turned away a donation we secured for dugout covers - after much complaining he bought them anyway and they have been sitting in a shed for over a month. Yesterday DD was hit in the head at practice, in the dugout, by a pop up - thankfully she happened to be wearing her batting helmet.
After a year of advocating for better facilities, and getting yessed to death, the softball boosters are getting ready to circulate a petition and file a title IX complaint with the BOE, Super, and AD. We have an ancient, poorly maintained facility with a broken sprinkler (for at least 2 years now) and baseball has everything - real dugouts (we have a rusty uncovered fence), they have a real outfield fence (we have a temp fence for the season), they have lights, water fountains, cameras, and ADA access to the bleachers - we have none of those. The MS uses the field for recess year-round, even though there is a field a 30 second walk away - it's "too far". We also have a new coach this year who only a handful of times submitted highlights to the local paper and doesn't know how to calculate a BA - included BB's in the calculation.... Sorry for the rant, I'm so frustrated - we have a 150M budget but they can't find a scrap of $ for the girls. Well they are going to have to.