wow, your dd must be playing slow pitch softball then. No speed and agility required in fast pitch softball? I take it back, even in beer league slow pitch softball, you have to have some speed and agility. Running off the field to get to your beer, because your up to bat next, can take a lot of speed & agility, you might have to dodge a ump and jump over some bats laying on the ground and get around some players standing in front of the cooler. Usually it is the other way around, a lot of really good athletes in other sports, don't have the agility to play softball and softball players are decent at the other sports.
Perhaps I didn't word that well. Soccer immediately comes to mind as a sport that generally requires speed and agility just to play at a reasonably high level. I absolutely agree with you that a lot of athletes don't have the required skills to play softball at a high level but I do believe that a good athlete can be tought to play softball well. How many HS coaches take the time to truly teach and develop girls? If there is a pool of skilled travel ball players who play year around available a high school coach can be kind of lazy when it comes to developing players. How many of our top travel organizations really allow the girls the time to truly dedicate themselves to their other sports? Not too many.
Football is a HS driven sport that naturally allows players to play sports in the off-season and HS football coaches generally encourage it. Yes there are some 7 on 7 leagues and football players train year around, but a lot of those boys can easily play basketball and baseball without it having much of an impact on football.
In my state we had a girl leave the state high school softball championship when a rain delay happened so she could get on a plane to go play for her travel team. Really? Are we really allowing girls to be well rounded athletes?
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