Is this true?

That certainly seems to be the template a lot of teams use.

I remember getting a newsletter from AYSO once when I was coaching soccer. It was from the Director, explaining to all of us who were new to soccer what attributes were needed to play each position. The basic take was that you had a team full of fast, strong, coordinated kids. Given AYSO's mantra of "everyone plays" I was pretty well convinced the Director had never watched an actual AYSO game. I actually wrote to him to ask where you put the heavy kid who can't run, the kid who trips all over himself, the kid who's not in bad shape but can't run fast, the kid with a three second attention span and all the other types I'd had on my teams or seen on others. He never wrote me back to answer my questions for some reason.

Josh Greer said:

Sometimes when catchers make it look easy, you lose perspective. Put your shortstop behind the plate and see how tough they are.

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Love this! Our 3rd baseman just decided she wants to catch. She is probably the least athletic kid on the field. Should be interesting to watch!

As for the original question - DD plays C and CF - both pretty accurately describe her. But she is also the smallest and quite possibly the nicest as well. She always makes nice with the umps and keeps up a good natured banter with them during the games and always hands the batter back her bat after a foul or out. When asked why she is nice she says "the girls on the other team are not my enemies, they are my competition/opponents and you never know when you might become teammates down the road".

KPower said:

Love this! Our 3rd baseman just decided she wants to catch. She is probably the least athletic kid on the field. Should be interesting to watch!

As for the original question - DD plays C and CF - both pretty accurately describe her. But she is also the smallest and quite possibly the nicest as well. She always makes nice with the umps and keeps up a good natured banter with them during the games and always hands the batter back her bat after a foul or out. When asked why she is nice she says "the girls on the other team are not my enemies, they are my competition/opponents and you never know when you might become teammates down the road".

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A catcher should ALWAYS make nice with the plate ump...

...even when he tells you he will change the strike zone if your pitcher doesn't stop making "those faces" (true story, unfortunately).

Ump came over to me and very nicely said your pitcher needs to stop making faces.

A lot of thinks went threw my head but OK came out of my mouth.

Semi serous part is I gabbed my 11 year C and asked what was going on.