Scott passed away the week before Thanksgiving. He was a great coach, friend, and mentor to many in the softball community.
A memorial has been scheduled, details quoted below were posted by his daughter Kelly Welch, on his Facebook page. Any updates would presumably be posted there as well.
After several weeks of tearing it up in tryouts, when to all appearances all the passion and love of the game that have been leeched out of her the last few seasons, she told me she's not going to do this anymore.
She's had a trail of cr@ppy coaches, kept thinking this time maybe we found...
Disagree on principle with #9. IMLE, there are plenty of males involved in the sport that may need to make us of said container, though apparently few do. ;-)
Kelby Tomlinson, Giants rookie and former Bee Jay player, dedicated hist first MLB hit to Kaiser.
https://www.facebook.com/tyler.prater.7/videos/960628077326653/
San Francisco Giants: Kelby Tomlinson dedicates hit to batboy - MLB - SI.com
Had all four of mine out at 15. Only about 2 days of genuine pain, but I reacted badly to the codeine and had to gut it out. In that state, I would not have been able to function athletically, might have been possible for others with the meds.
In an only slightly related note, without a smattering of crappy coaches and dysfunctional parents, it would have been a lot harder coming up with passwords the last 6 years.
The Giants changed the minimum age to 14 after that, because it illustrated exactly what you say. The little guys charge blindly out there to do their job, with no situational awareness.
Well, the coach announced that all positions are up for grabs, but I may be tangled in semantics.
I still believe that having your girls in practice uni's will work against you if your goal is to get more girls from outside to come to tryouts. I may be wrong, and that may not be their goal.
Tough question. "acceptable" in the sense of the thread is almost anything that I think is being said in good faith. Pragmatically, DD might not wait that long, but we wouldn't hold it against the org if they are clear about their time frame and seem honest and forthright.
In reality, if you're...