My kids have all been involved with sports for about 7 years now. We have never had a problem with any other sport but softball. The drama is so high in this sport that there have been many times when I have encouraged my daughter to quit. My daughter is a natural athlete and softball is her favorite. We were on the same team for three years and decided to change her this Spring b/c for three years we saw nothing but Drama between our coaches and parents and saw so many girls quit the sport. Also, the coaching was mediocre at best. We were asked to join the #3 team in the state for our age group. Our old coaches got mad of course, tried to get my dd back, when she wouldn't come back they bad mouthed us to everyone in the sport. By the way my child is only 8! This sport is awesome but why so much drama, hatred and jealousy. I don't know if we should make her quit to save our family the pain or just indure it for her love of the game??