I would let her play on the team until next year. Familiarize yourself with travel ball and learn the ropes.
There are worse situations...you could be on a team with a coach who berates the kids, or you could be on a team where you kid is so-so compared to the other kids.
Look around and try to rationally determine how "good" your DD is.
Yep.
The girls aren't going to get better. The reason your DD is better is because you got out in the backyard and played pitch and catch with her. The other parents didn't.
The parents aren't going to change, so the kids are not going to get better.
Lesson 1: It is not up to the coaches to make your DD a better player. It is up to you and her.
Absolutely.
No, no, no. You and your DD have to get a feel for what "good" really means. You aren't going to find that out playing rec.
No. This is a case of a parent not understanding TB. Consider yourself lucky--you are learning the lesson now rather than in 5 years.
uncdrew...no argument....bmakj...nailed it why we encourage failing fantastically. You don't know how where the line is for you by always playing it safe. This fall the light bulb started to go on as a group for our girls. example shallow fly ball to right center. RF comes charging in lets ball drop for fear of ball getting behind her. Base hit for batter. When asked why she didn't "GO FOR IT" she said didn't want ball to get past her and girl to get a double. Was the CF backing you up? YES. So CF would have gotten ball if you didn't and the batter still would have had a single? I guess so. Many practices later and trying to fail fantastically...and the a similar situation arose twice both times with a runner on first. This time the RF sold out made a sliding catch. popped up and doubled up the girl at first. Second time RF sold out...didn't make the catch but CF was backing her up, grabbed ball and got the lead runner out at 2B. The runner advancing to 2B hesitated because she wasn't sure the RF was NOT going to make the catch.
