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Ken Krause

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I was thinking about this today as I was thinking about my daughters and a couple of other players who used to play with us. If you are a current player, there are no doubt times when you find the whole training/practicing thing to be a pain. In fact, you may sometimes look at yet […]
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I was thinking about this today as I was thinking about my daughters and a couple of other players who used to play with us. If you are a current player, there are no doubt times when you find the whole training/practicing thing to be a pain. In fact, you may sometimes look at yet […]
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Ken can delete this if he wants, but I thought his point was so much on target (and hits close to home as DD will be graduating from college this spring), that I've copied the entire text from his article so that others who aren't inclined to follow the link can read it here in its entirety!

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"I was thinking about this today as I was thinking about my daughters and a couple of other players who used to play with us.

If you are a current player, there are no doubt times when you find the whole training/practicing thing to be a pain. In fact, you may sometimes look at yet another game or tournament and think “Much as I love the game it sure will be nice when it’s all over and my time is my own.”

Take it from those players I was talking about at the beginning. I have yet to run into a former player who doesn’t wish she could get back out on the field just one more time to play a game or tournament that matters.

Yes, you can still play slow pitch, or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a fastpitch league somewhere. But it’s not the same. There just isn’t the level of intensity you find when you’re playing competitive ball on a regular basis, whether that’s travel, rec, high school or college.

You may not miss it right away. But one day you’ll realize just how much fun it was, and how cool, and you’ll wish you could go back and do it all again, just one more time. So…

If you’re currently a player in her last season, keep that in mind as you’re lifting, or going to lessons, or practicing. It does have an expiration date.

Also keep in mind that this final year you will be as good as you’re ever going to be, because once you’re done practicing and playing regularly all those skills you worked so hard to gain will start to deteriorate. Maybe not much at first, but they will go, and things that once came easily will now be more difficult. Or they may not be there at all anymore.

Use that as your special motivation to get past the grind of preparation. Make sure when you leave the game you feel there’s nothing more you could have done to make yourself better. Because if you don’t, once that last out is recorded you’ll have the rest of your life ahead of you. And you won’t want to spend it wishing you’d done a little more, or appreciated it a little more.

Take it from those who have come and gone before you."
 

Ken Krause

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Thanks, GM. No way I would delete it. I'd actually prefer it if the entire post would show up all the time rather than creating a link but I haven't been able to figure out how to make it happen automatically.

Glad you enjoyed the post. For kids especially it's tough to understand that longer-term view. Sometimes they get mad that they have to go to a tournament instead of this party or that concert. But there will be many parties and concerts in their future. Once they're done with softball they're done.
 

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