IMO the player and parents should say nothing about the rolled ankle to the college coach. If your dd had a hard time running it was probably obvious. Does the college coach talk to the TB coach? If so it was probably brought up in their conversation if the college coach asked what was wrong...
For Jane
225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
They have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
Is this how it works?
In this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.
When you left
you took almost everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that will not let me...
My suggestion is:
Clean glove of all dirt with a slightly damp cloth and let fully dry. Apply pure lanolin very sparingly (a little goes a long way) to entire glove and let sit for 24 hours. Buff the glove with a clean, dry cloth, and place a softball in the pocket of the glove and a...
Yeah, it makes sense. It's really not that odd of a situation.
There's many reasons to redshirt a student athlete: Not medically ready, not academically ready, not transitionally ready, not physically ready, the team is too deep in talent, etc. The redshirt allows the athlete to practice and...
My dd is in her sophomore year at a 4 year school and is on track to obtain her BS in Respiratory Care. Solastminute is the person that posed the question and concerns, not me.
Pure and simply: Does the school meet your academic goals? For instance, let's say a young lady wants to be an engineer. Should she go to a school offering a full athletic scholly that is a pure liberal arts school with no engineering program, just for the sake of playing softball? Should a...
By no means was my post meant to be snarky. I was vague and I apologize for that. Chinamigarden is correct. I was saying to make academics the main consideration when picking schools. Like I told my dd when I was in your shoes, you have softball for potentially 4 years while in college but...
People don't realize how important a good blocking catcher is......until they have one on their team and can see for themselves how many runs are saved.
I use lanolin. It's a wax, not an oil so it does not soak in. I've thought about using Lexol but I like to know what I'm putting on my leather. I know Lexol has tanning oils which I believe is oil extracted from cow brains but they will not tell you what else is in it.
Great pics GM!
Burlap: Here's a video to show that when a catcher moves into a runners on stance they are not locked in for 10 seconds....just a second or two.
GM is absolutely correct. A no runners on/primary stance should be low set and comfortable. A runners on/secondary stance should be balanced, locked in, and femurs parallel to the ground. In order to properly block a catcher must replace her feet with her knees on the ground (among other...