Coach K, one of the Tuft's pitchers Aly Moskowitz used to give lessons to DD. We never saw her play college but she was a workhorse in HS. Good luck to your DD.
Coach K, one of the Tuft's pitchers Aly Moskowitz used to give lessons to DD. We never saw her play college but she was a workhorse in HS. Good luck to your DD.
Because we are only 55 minutes from the SB field, I got to know most of the players pretty well. Aly is a great young student athlete. We had the team over for dinner as they returned from a 2 day trip in Mane at one of the ME NESCAC schools, just a great group of players, super smart, funny, polite, very very tight as a team. During the DI WCWS, they were texting and tweeting each other all weekend, many very funny comments. Aly has one more year left to play, Tufts finished 4th on the NFCA final poll and are only losing 3 starters. #1 pitcher is a lights out rising sophomore (among her records this year, 2 consecutive perfect games, 3 over all a DIII career record I think.
Anyone who thinks DIII is a lesser game, you have to see it played at the top of the division, virtually every player on the 8 teams in the final could play DI (maybe not ASU, UCLA, Bama or OK but for any others).
Good luck Daddylawman. Take a look at the Tufts August Summer camp. Come to Boston, at least one of the centers of education in the US. Visit a lot of schools including Harvard (litterly 15 minutes from Tufts), MIT, BC, BU, Northeastern, Wellsely and Wheaton, all in or around Boston. Dartmouth is about 2.5 hours as is Yale. Colby, Bates and Bowdoin are 2-3 hours up in Maine. Amherst, Smith, Mt Holyoke about 1.5 hours and Trinity and Weslyan about 1.5 hours from the Tufts campus and 45 minutes from Yale. RPI and Union are about 3.5 hours. Come for a week, do a 3 day camp in front of a lot of coaches who can talk to you and with college players who can tell you anything you want. 3-4 more days and you can see all these schools and more.
Ivy's and NESCAC's have no athletic or even merit money, strictly financial aid (as one financial aid officer put it, who would we give merit money to, we only accept the top 2-4%, can't pick one over another). However, they all have huge endowments so the financial aid is pretty generous for most of the Ivy's and NESCAC schools, generally right around the EFC from FASTFA. The package is often better than schools who give athletic and merit money
We had parents fly in from California, Texas and St Louis in softball and field hockey for regular season games and the playoffs and NCAA's, but many games are video streamed live so if you are far away, you still get to see her play.
Those are great scores, smart youg lady. If a coach is interested and she likes the school, they will tell her to apply early decision, deadline around 11/1, you will know by 12/15.
See my first post for the link to the camp broshure. If she is thinking about schools in New England.
Good luck and enjoy the experience.
I would certainly endorse the 4 schools mentioned by Greenmonsters. My bad on Mt Holyoke. Embarrassed by missing Skidmore since I lived in Saratoga for many years and rented apartments to Skidmore students. Smith will get better, Whitney Mollica is the head assistant and doing great things with the program. Whitney holds several UMass records as a 4 year starter and is the grand daughter of a legendary coach, Don Zimmer. If she stays at Smith, the program has a great future, she is a wonderful coach. If I were looking to build a DIII softball program, she would be my choice of an up and coming young coach, and she is really a nice person as well.