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    8U-how many innings per day for pitchers?

    Yes Two inning per game rule-one more in championship game if it goes more than four innings It is 8Urec travel ball so if four balls are thrown, the coach inherits the count and pitches to their own girls I too focus on player development at this age and use ONLY positive reinforcement I tell...
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    8U-how many innings per day for pitchers?

    Yes, California lol We have several divisions of 8s… 8U-comp 8U-C 8U-B 8U open and 8Urec (which is what we’re playing) It’s not rec, it’s still comp/travel ball but there’s no stealing and coach inherits the count if four balls are thrown so there’re no walkfests We made it to the...
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    8U-how many innings per day for pitchers?

    Hi all I’m coaching 8U travel ball Tournament rules limit pitcher to 2 innings per game. We have three games on Saturdays and up to three (single elimination) on Sundays. Should I limit my 8 year old pitchers to 4 innings per day? 5? I have four pitchers but only one is great, one is good, two...
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    Tryouts/Clinics

    Thank you Our rec season is wrapping up so this is for travel/comp ball The league is holding tryouts for all divisions, 8U-18U but our numbers for 8s aren’t large so we won’t have any cuts. It is really an evaluation rather than a tryout as everyone will make the team I don’t yet have an...
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    Tryouts/Clinics

    Looking for tips on how to organize/run upcoming 8U tryouts …also interested in ideas for a clinic or two and how a single two hour softball clinic differs from a practice TYIA Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    New division age cutoff

    This I know. I guess the director just misunderstood because she thought that starting this year that the age cutoff was changing to match the start of the season
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    New division age cutoff

    See, between you and pattar who is quoting the USSSA site, which I’ve also seen, there is conflicting information as what you are saying is what I thought was correct, I just can’t find it in print so wondering where the official information is cited or if it’s like 8U rules which are up for...
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    New division age cutoff

    Was really just asking if anyone knew any hard, concrete information regarding if there is or isn’t a change from 12/31 to 8/31 as the official cutoff for age divisions (not complaining just wondering as I’ve come across conflicting and seemingly outdated information) It is very possible that...
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    New division age cutoff

    Ya. I do remember girls traditionally moving up to the division they will be playing next spring/summer but that it wasn’t mandatory. As none of our girls had played more than one comp summer (COVID), some never having played comp, one who never played softball before, a few true 8s, and only...
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    Thanks for the add

    Wow Wonder where my leave director got that from because we would have rocked it this fall as 8s!
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    New division age cutoff

    I’ve been doing this for a long time and divisions were always based on age on 12/31 with the option to play up especially in the fall when the girl would move up for spring and summer ball. The directors of the two leagues I coach for both said that USSSA had changed the division age cutoff to...
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    Thanks for the add

    Thank you for the add! For a couple of seasons now, this forum has come up when I had been searching for answers. Don’t know what took me so long to join… I have been coaching softball for over a decade (3 daughters) but have only started coaching comp/travel ball two seasons ago. I had a huge...
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