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Oct 10, 2011
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Who's DD'S plays fall HS sports? DD has decided not to play volleyball her Junior year to focus on softball. I used to coach vball and DD has played it longer than softball. Still, I'm so excited to get to spend more time with her this fall. Last year she missed 30 days of school and most of her TB and when she could, sat with her vball team at games. We start back with her batting lessons today and her new team Sunday. I can hardly sleep thinking about it. She has kidney surgery in November after her last tournament and then can get off all the meds... Yay!
(I've had too much caffeine)
 
Jun 18, 2012
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I wish HS softball were in the fall here! As I've said elsewhere, our weather is better in the fall than in the spring. Further, we'd have the winter to transition into the travelball season.
 
Oct 10, 2011
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I wish HS softball were in the fall here! As I've said elsewhere, our weather is better in the fall than in the spring. Further, we'd have the winter to transition into the travelball season.
I wish hs softball was fall here too. It rains too much in the spring and they end up practicing inside alot and rescheduling games.
 
Dec 7, 2011
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DD's second love (maybe even a wash with SB) was VB. As a pitcher I recommended to DD that she take time off away from VB her senior year after being injured with stress fracture in her back the whole junior year. DD played VB as she felt committed to the team (I can respect that).

Well the senior VB season ended with her team going to state (great experience). BUT the fly in the chardonnay was that she developed another complication in her back relative to the rehab she was doing that I am sure was exacerbated by the VB. This led to what we thought was going to be a miss of her senior year pitching SB BUT she came back just in time (but wasn't at her peak).

The essence of my message here - If your DD is a pitcher and she also is a hitter on VB know that this burden on spine is BIG (given that this defines a minimal rest period in the year....)
 
Mar 20, 2014
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I wish HS softball were in the fall here! As I've said elsewhere, our weather is better in the fall than in the spring. Further, we'd have the winter to transition into the travelball season.
I agree - the weather is terrible in southeastern Idaho in the spring. But the big schools over in the west side of our state would never give up their advantage...
 
Mar 20, 2014
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After much deliberation, my DD decided to play HS basketball again this year. I have mixed feelings. While I like that she is playing another sport and getting that conditioning, I worry about injuries (softball is her #1 sport). But you can't put them in a bubble and she wants to do it so I will (*nervously*) support her...
 

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May 8, 2009
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Who's DD'S plays fall HS sports? DD has decided not to play volleyball her Junior year to focus on softball. I used to coach vball and DD has played it longer than softball. Still, I'm so excited to get to spend more time with her this fall. Last year she missed 30 days of school and most of her TB and when she could, sat with her vball team at games. We start back with her batting lessons today and her new team Sunday. I can hardly sleep thinking about it. She has kidney surgery in November after her last tournament and then can get off all the meds... Yay!
(I've had too much caffeine)

Diddo. DD is not playing volleyball (freshman) this fall. She likes it, but said the A and B teams will be filled with travel ball players and the C through whatever teams only scrimmage each other. So she said she is not going to practice 2 hours a day and not play any games. She really wants to join a crossfit, but I told her she needs to see what the high school offers in the weight room before I dish out more money.

She says no more basketball either. Which I am happy about. I enjoy watching it. She gets a great work out, but when the season is over she has a good solid month of sore knees, ankles, and feet.
 
Sep 18, 2011
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Nothing organized, but DD plays a ton of ultimate frisbee in the fall (don't laugh!). She loves it and it provides a nice change of pace from softball.
 
Aug 29, 2011
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Nothing organized, but DD plays a ton of ultimate frisbee in the fall (don't laugh!). She loves it and it provides a nice change of pace from softball.
That's a great sport to play and ton of fun for when she goes to college for pickup ultimate frisbee games!

Soccer is king in the fall here with cheerleeding 2nd and DD has no interest in either. Thankfully we'll be playing fall softball this year.
 
Jul 19, 2014
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Nothing organized, but DD plays a ton of ultimate frisbee in the fall (don't laugh!). She loves it and it provides a nice change of pace from softball.

One laughs at Frisbee at one's peril.

The college I attended (Swarthmore, close to Philly) had a pretty good Ultimate team back in the late 70s and early 80s, when I went there. At one point I lived in an off-campus dorm where a lot of the Frisbee players lived, and I learned a lot of interesting tricks walking back to the dorms with them.

Now, I live in Madison, WI, which is completely NUTS about Frisbee. The park a couple of blocks away usually has up to 4 adult league games going on at the same time, with a couple more at another park a couple more blocks away (yes, we have lots of parks in Wisconsin). My DS almost joined the Ultimate club at HS, but rowed instead. The Ultimate coach said he wished DS had gone a different route.

There is even a Major League Frisbee team in Madison, and it is one of the top 2 or 3 teams in North America.

If Frisbee ever makes it as an Olympic sport, expect to see some Madisonians on the US team.

(FWIW, most of the folks with Madison area connections who go to the Olympics tend to go in one of 4 sports: speed skating (Eric Heiden was from Madison, as were many, many others), curling (one of the best clubs in the world on the SE side of town), ice hockey (several locals on the Miracle team of 1980, including the coach and his son), and rowing (because sometimes the ice melts!) )

EDIT: The SB girls in Madison often play VB in the fall, and either hockey or basketball in the winter. My girls' 2 best sports are SB and track, which, alas, are both spring sports, weather permitting.
 
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