My team of 6 and 7 year olds is about to start too. This reminds me that I need to buy more helmet stickers.
Gonna have to try that this year!
My team of 6 and 7 year olds is about to start too. This reminds me that I need to buy more helmet stickers.
That's awesome!
When I saw the topic I was half expecting to see a post about a competetive "A" level travel 6U team
...I gave them the markers and had them draw bugs on the corners...Then I taught them to run the bases and stomp those bugs on the corners of the bases.
... till they were exhausted!
This is the REAL bottom line with 6U.
It brings back memories to think of those days.
I was talking to my DD's coach from 8U the other day. I didn't coach the first year, but he had 11 players. This last fall 10 of the 11 players were still playing softball (12 and 13 year olds). To me that's the measure of success for a youth coach.
Hopefully that coach was NEVER allowed back to coach again in that league.I used to be a board member when both my DS and DD were playing league.
That was the #1 question we always asked when assigning who would coach. "How many returns did they have come back".
One year I was assigned the 14u division and had a coach that would get his hardest throwers to throw at the weakest players to try and get them to quit.