- Dec 11, 2010
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Here’s our story:
DD #2 was a 10u pitcher. She had a paid pitching instructor who was a former college pitcher. She was a smart, sharp person and looking back I believe she was doing a nice job with dd.
We also had a team pitching coach. He worked with pitchers 2x a week in practice and he had been a part of bringing numerous teams from the youngest ages up to 14’s. He was a fun guy and the kids loved him. Historically, the teams and pitchers were all quite successful so as far as we knew at the time, he knew what he was doing.
He wanted curves and screws. PI wanted this super young kid working form first. Somehow, I don’t remember how, it was decided that he would come to a lesson so they could all get on the same page.
It was a disaster. Team pitching coach and instructor got into it in front of dd. It was the team coach that made the initial overstep, the instructor didn’t handle it well. It escalated from there. We didn’t know what to do- we probably didn’t handle it well either. We stayed out of the fray but we didn’t know how to deal with it at the time. I wish I could go back and do it all over. I would have prevented that mess. We would have trusted the instructor. We would have found a way to mitigate the desperate inadequacy of a 9 year old not having a curve, screw, change and drop with the team coach lol
DD #2 was a 10u pitcher. She had a paid pitching instructor who was a former college pitcher. She was a smart, sharp person and looking back I believe she was doing a nice job with dd.
We also had a team pitching coach. He worked with pitchers 2x a week in practice and he had been a part of bringing numerous teams from the youngest ages up to 14’s. He was a fun guy and the kids loved him. Historically, the teams and pitchers were all quite successful so as far as we knew at the time, he knew what he was doing.
He wanted curves and screws. PI wanted this super young kid working form first. Somehow, I don’t remember how, it was decided that he would come to a lesson so they could all get on the same page.
It was a disaster. Team pitching coach and instructor got into it in front of dd. It was the team coach that made the initial overstep, the instructor didn’t handle it well. It escalated from there. We didn’t know what to do- we probably didn’t handle it well either. We stayed out of the fray but we didn’t know how to deal with it at the time. I wish I could go back and do it all over. I would have prevented that mess. We would have trusted the instructor. We would have found a way to mitigate the desperate inadequacy of a 9 year old not having a curve, screw, change and drop with the team coach lol
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