Question for those parents who have high level players considering schools.
How is the RE alignment of conferences affecting your DD’s college choices? The PAC 12 teams going to the B1G TEN seems like a lot of excessive travel. Does this encourage you to look at smaller schools that travel...
Bo Shembechler once called her the best coach at UofM. He was talking to Lloyd Carr when he said it.
Fought a Big Ten University over Title IX and won. First WCWS east of the Mississippi. Most wins by a college coach. Can go on and on. Michigan is left in good hands. But she will be missed...
Its been her goal since 11th grade. Her goal was a Masters degree in 5 years. She graduated HS in 2015 and here we are in 2020 and yesterday she completed her requirements. Only thing left is for the paperwork to finalize. Her degrees are Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, and the Masters in...
I'm thinking about my dds last year of HS ball and how it would have sucked to not have played. How lucky we were that her last season of travel and of club ball happened. I'm looking at local kids I've known since they were 4 or 5, Hanging around the park while their older sister played, And...
Now that softball is pretty much delayed or cancelled all over. I miss the first year coaches and fans who come on this forum and complain about a rule being misapplied. When it wasn’t
Honestly some of the best comedy this forum provides.
In full disclosure I may have been that newbie once...
Ok umps and rules people. This question came up in a thread no UMP has read and it’s gotten almost heated.
On an OTF home run. Batter/runner is rounding third and the coach gives her a hug. Is the batter out?
If yes does this hug count as assisting the runner?
My dd made a decision when she was in 9th grade. One I have discussed several times before. She told me that she would not be playing college softball so she could focus on academics. When she went to college she missed softball and was able to play club softball. The team went to 2 Nationals...
Yesterday as I was driving home, a car ran a stop sign and caused an accident with a motorcyclist. The accident happened on the corner where I live. We live in a rural area so its all deep ditches.
I didn't see the accident but I was the the second car on the scene. I found the MC rider in a...
Since my dd retired from the game this year I assumed my participation in this part of the forum was complete, except for in 3 years when she gets her electrical engineering degree and her masters in Biomedical Engineering. But I get ahead of myself.
She just texted me to tell me that she was...
OK, so first off I know that if the IFF isn't called, the umps can and probably should sort it out and make the correct call after the fact.
However, how should this situation been handled. Runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs, pop up between pitcher and home and no one gets there in time. No IFF...
My dd quit the game after HS. It came as no surprise since from grade 9 she told me she didn't want to play college. She could have, several of her past teammates have and do, but it wasn't what she wanted out of her college experience. So at her last HS game we said goodbye to the game.
Her...
My DD handles the Team's finances and one of her duties is to pay the umps.
One ump calls out to her after the game "hey Natalie, you spelled Dennis' name wrong."
How did I spell it?
"Gary"
What should we do? OK so our team's manager is usually pretty good but I am starting to think that he is only considered good because the team wins.
So we are in a tourney and he completely drops the ball on how to use his pitchers. He completely over uses his most effective pitcher rendering...
My dd's math class this year in her first semester of her sophomore year of college.
That's my whole brag, she is taking math classes I never heard of before.
https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-executive-board-supports-tokyo-2020-package-of-new-sports-for-ioc-session
HE EXECUTIVE BOARD (EB) OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) TODAY SUPPORTED THE PROPOSAL TO ADD THE PACKAGE OF FIVE NEW SPORTS TO THE PROGRAMME OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020. IF...