- May 16, 2016
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Spring ball was my daughter's first season. Had a few practices at the beginning of the season and then games started. After that it was games on Tues/Thurs and some tournaments. My daughter made our regions 3rd string all-star team. We have practices on Tues/Thurs and tournaments on the weekend, but the coaches don't want to work on detail skills like foot work. They just want to run high repetition drills that do nothing but reinforce bad habits, not correct them. We are a third string team, realistically we have a one in a million chance of winning an tournament let alone district or state. I would view success as making sure the girls have fun and improving fundamental skills. When are these girls supposed to actually learn, even simple stuff like stepping back to catch a fly ball?
Kids start learning skills, when a skilled parent steps up to coach them, instead of complaining on a forums about the coaches who did step up.
I've seen 8u travel ball teams playing up with 2nd year 10u teams made up entirely of 11 year olds, and beat the pants off them. They start learning skillz when someone start teaching them.
Get out of the bleachers, and take the field!!!!