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    D1 Travel Squad Size

    From our experience the first two years of college ball there seems to be at least a couple girls on the DL by season's end. The year we went to regionals they took the injured players. Our conference allows 24 to dress so they took all those who had been playing conference.
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    Another rant

    The neat part about being a pitcher is that you get to test your movement every time you go in a game. If your riseball isn't getting a bunch of swing and misses under the ball or foul balls over the backstop you are not getting enough back spin on the ball. Doesn't really matter that a...
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    Advice needed for 2022 recruit

    I would agree with the earlier posters who mentioned the website was too much content. There are undoubtedly exceptions but all the coaches I've talked to or known all prefer a skills video with good lighting and multiple reps to the highlight videos. Consider how many emails/videos a coach...
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    How many days a week is a college pitcher going to pitch?

    Have a DD in her sophomore year playing D2. They basically throw 6 days a week. They throw a ton of live and BP and scrimmage quite regularly. She loves it and quite frankly this summer at travel ball she always threw best the second day after a good session or games the day before. She got a...
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    West Tx A&M D2 Champs

    The game within a game always interesting. Paige Austin had been great all week and won the opener in a shut out, her third at the WS. Game 2 they go to a different starter. Not sure if that was to save Austin if needed for a third game or some other theory but it didn't play out as planned...
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    Scholarship levels

    I'm curious what the experience of others has been on adjustments, either favorable or unfavorable, to the amount of athletic scholarship funds received in subsequent years. Is it fairly common to get a bump if you contributed to the team or do most players stay more or less the same all four...
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    D2 College post season primer

    Thanks Orange Socks. Doesn't appear to be a simple process.
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    D2 College post season primer

    Trying to figure out how the post season works as far as conference, regional, super regional, world series etc. Have a daughters playing in the Gliac which I understand is part of the Midwest region. Their conference final is second week of May and understand the winner of the conference gets...
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    Calculating scholarships

    I agree at the end of the day it really only matters in the net cost to the family however for a family trying to evaluate an offer it's definitely helpful to be able to compare apples to apples when you can. Our daughter is a D2 school now where she is quite happy. Quite a few in her freshmen...
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    Calculating scholarships

    I read a lot about D1 schools having 12 scholarships and d2 having 7.2 etc. Trying to understand what constitutes a scholarship. If as a D1 example tuition is $20k a year and residence is $12k and other costs another $3-4k what amount is multiplied by 12? Is the maximum amount available 12 x...
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    Wear current TB team gear to tryouts?

    Think a lot of the answers are coming from the perspective of the parents and coaches not the player. Tryouts are intimidating, suspect wearing another travel ball uniform is a way of showing you belong at this level. I don't think it's a great idea but I can understand a little where it might...
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    Has the return of softball resulted in more Covid cases?

    Here in Ontario, we are struggling to get anything started for softball. Curious what has been the experience in the states who have restarted? Have there been any outbreaks identified to have come as a result of practices and games being played? Some areas of the country have seen a rise in...
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    Aaron Rowland post to Matt Lisle

    There are great athletes who make lousy coaches and mediocre athletes who make great coaches and instructors. There are a lot more managers with world series rings that were mediocre players than there are .300 lifetime hitters who have won a ring as a manager. Hitting is abut equal parts...
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    New Member...Toronto Canada

    Also Canadian. Canceling was the right call . We went the last two years and had a terrific time just isn't feasible this season. I'm pretty comfortable with the risk profile of a couple of teams playing a doubleheader at a local diamond we all drive to, it's a whole other thing having teams...
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    Live Streaming Rig Question by Total Novice

    We had a lot of issues with orientation using Facebook but otherwise found it quite good. The orientation thing was annoying as it would sometimes work in landscape and sometimes not.

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