- May 18, 2022
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Basketball here for the MS kids starts in July and runs until like mid fall. The HS girls start later but don't finish until the first week of practice IF they don't advance in the district tournament. Ours didn't this year. Last year they did, and halfway into spring practice the all-time basketball scoring leader, a senior, showed up having never played softball and goes on to be the only one who could consistently get the ball over the plate. She threw around 35mph and got beat up by the good teams, but she only walked 12 batters in probably 20 starts. It was a miracle. This year there are three kids who can throw strikes and at least 45mph. Another miracle. We're all about the miracles around here..lol
AAU basketball starts in April after the state tournament for highschool basketball. I know some of the highschool kids are trying to recruit players and my daughter has gotten some of her basketball teammates to come to the captains practices. We won't know what we have until softball season officially opens in March.
We do have a middleschooler that can throw strikes, we have been encouraging my daughter to pitch and she has been doing about an hour a week with a coach.
We are lucky that the current HC has a history of developing players.