wont sell out for Any team!!

I'm sharing this because some of you out there that think sticking with IR and justifying it to coaches is tuff at the 10-12-14 levels , just wait till you get to 16-18.Next year my older DD ages out of 14 u and was approached by the top 16-u team in the state. great record for college placement ,always has good athletes, good coaches. So we show up at the private tryout and they have her warm up her arm after the usual drills. So my DD is fourteen and these girls were mostly 17 and all good players. So they point to the circle and say get in sister. up she goes, holds her own, a few strike outs, lots of poorly hit grounders, and pop flies. all with a catcher calling her game who met her 20 minutes prior.She threw to their entire line up, not one Batter got home. Her mix of speed and spin along with a nice change kept them off balance the entire time credit to her being a long time IR type pitcher. Then they had her warm up Batting. they warmed up all the aces. during warm up they all threw the biggest nicest Hello Elbow you ever saw. I thought right away this is not good.So watching them throw only their number 1 threw harder and none of them had movement other than a drop although they had a good change and hit their spots ok. Batting against all three my DD walked, singled, ground out twice.so on Base 500. After Practice they pulled us aside and the coach said she did a great job and would make the team IF,IF she started Taking pitching lesson from the biggest hello elbow instructor in the state. Don't know if we did the right thing But after we reflected for a while we passed on the offer the next day.(something I don't think happens often) Love my Kid though, once we had decided she looked at me and said "cant wait to smoke em next year". Since then she got another offer from another Good reputable team that loves her mechanics. Remaining true to the mechanics you believe in is not always easy but it always the right thing to do.

I don't remember the thread or I would link it, but I do remember posting something to the effect of "BPs daughter throws faster than your daughter" as a general response to seeing the older one pitch, she was awesome. Any coach that wouldn't encourage her to keep on working on what she is working on is a complete and utter moron or is so tied up in needing to feed the orgs economic machine that they are willing to give bad advice like this.

JJsqueeze said:

I don't remember the thread or I would link it, but I do remember posting something to the effect of "BPs daughter throws faster than your daughter" as a general response to seeing the older one pitch, she was awesome. Any coach that wouldn't encourage her to keep on working on what she is working on is a complete and utter moron or is so tied up in needing to feed the orgs economic machine that they are willing to give bad advice like this.

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found it...hope you don't mind but I had to see if my memory was correct about her pitching....it was.

bucket pinata said:

. After Practice they pulled us aside and the coach said she did a great job and would make the team IF,IF she started Taking pitching lesson from the biggest hello elbow instructor in the state. Don't know if we did the right thing But after we reflected for a while we passed on the offer the next day.(something I don't think happens often) Love my Kid though, once we had decided she looked at me and said "cant wait to smoke em next year". Since then she got another offer from another Good reputable team that loves her mechanics. Remaining true to the mechanics you believe in is not always easy but it always the right thing to do.

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you did the right thing. there will be others and you did find one that embraces her mechanics. gives me the chills to imagine my DD going back to hello elbow.

Bravo to both you and your dd!

Almost all of my students that go to travel ball are forced to use a HE instructor. That is why 75% of my students are 8-12 yos. It is OK. I still encourage them to start TB. They don't know that when they start, they have to line Instructor B's pocket with $$.

Good for you and your daughter, BP! Sounds like she had a great showing, and you have a pretty good base of comparison too. It's not always easy to turn down the "big offer." But my guess is HE wouldn't be the last thing they tried to force on her.

I can't tell you how many of my pitchers and hitters have had to fight those respective battles with travel coaches, high school coaches, well-meaning parents, etc. It never ceases to amaze me how many coaches want to fiddle with the top of their lineups.

Don't they know a chain is only as strong as its weakest link? Instead of trying "to" fix the the best players, why not work with the ones who aren't doing so well. You might actually be able to make an improvement then. When the 6-8 hitters can hit as well as the 3-5, then start working on 3-5. Until then, let them do their thing.

BP, hope your daughter smokes 'em good next year!

Hope she wears em out next summer! ...Idiots

bucket pinata said:

she looked at me and said "cant wait to smoke em next year"

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Got to love that kind of fire inside !

I love the fire also...those are the girl's who make it!!!