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May 22, 2015
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DD's coach last year is a girl currently playing college softball. She is only about 7 or 8 years older than the girls on the team, and is doing exactly what DD wants to do at the college level. All the girls on the team had a great connection with her, and actually became pretty close knit with her. She is transferring next year so won't be coaching though. We would prefer to have at least one coach on the staff that has college softball experience, and knows the real ins and outs of what it takes to get your game to the next level. I think the girls relate to having a female coach that has been in their shoes and visa versa. That being said it's not a deal breaker by no means. If I see male coaches being positive, giving solid input, and can tell they know the game it's all good. If they are leaning against the fence, drinking a Slurpee, treating it more like social hour, and has a DD on the team that gets special treatment, then I have a problem. Unfortunately most of the dads I've seen coach fall into that category.
 

Cannonball

Ex "Expert"
Feb 25, 2009
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The thing of it is, although people love me as a softball coach, I run into some men that think I can't coach baseball..
My wife is incredible about the game of baseball and my dd is pretty good. I told my wife just this past week that she knows more about baseball than half of the coaches I coached against in HS.
 
Nov 18, 2013
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As a head coach, I always wanted a staff of AC college age females. My wife just wouldn't allow it. :(

I know this is just a joke, but you're talking about our daughters in a lot of cases. There's also that we want our girls to be noticed for their performance on the field instead of how they look on it.

Ok, I'll lighten up now.
 
Jan 18, 2010
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In your face
I know this is just a joke, but you're talking about our daughters in a lot of cases. There's also that we want our girls to be noticed for their performance on the field instead of how they look on it.

Ok, I'll lighten up now.

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Easy tiger, my daughter is in college.
 

JAD

Feb 20, 2012
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Georgia
There will always be good male coaches and good female coaches, there will also be bad male coaches and bad female coaches. Do not pick a team for your DD based solely on the head coaches gender...
 

marriard

Not lost - just no idea where I am
Oct 2, 2011
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Florida
The coach who I consider the best I have ever known is a woman.

The coach who I consider the very worst coach I have ever known is also a woman.

One of the best softball coaches I know has never played softball and only started coaching it because his DD started playing (he was a basketball coach originally)

One of the very worst softball coaches I know was a candidate for College Softball player of the year when she played (which was not recently)

Gender matters almost nothing. Game experience means very little. Sure it is ideal to be able to pull from experience (or even a similar experience), but it is really is a very, very small part of what makes a coach.
 

Cannonball

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Feb 25, 2009
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I think this parents comment was more about female role model than just x and o Coach. These are coaches who have been through HS and TB. Who have been through the recruitment process and have gotten that scholarship.
 

marriard

Not lost - just no idea where I am
Oct 2, 2011
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I think this parents comment was more about female role model than just x and o Coach. These are coaches who have been through HS and TB. Who have been through the recruitment process and have gotten that scholarship.

Role model and coach are two separate things. You can be both - and a good coach should definitely be both - but role models don't have to be coaches.

And I am all for more and more ex-players and current players being role models especially for the girls. I know it has meant a lot to my DD to have had interactions with the older girls as she has grown older. That included girls in HS when she was in rec through girls in or have finished college who have interacted with her in various ways over the years. We were at a NPF game in Orlando recently and I know it made her feel good when one of the USSSA Pride girls recognized her and went out of her way to come over and say hello.
 

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