My daughter is dreading high school ball approaching

Eric F · Jan 31, 2020

Rolling Hard said:
I know RAD is not a man. My DD has taken lessons from her and if it was more geographically feasible she would take more. Just a phrase stating disbelief. For recruiting, maybe so cal HS fastpitch is not that important, unfortunately. Cant believe when CIF rolls around no colleges are watching. This is high level ball.

My apologies. I forgot you were the one who knows Turbo personally.

Think about timing. College coaches are still coaching their own teams in early May. College coaches are going to see those players in the fall and summer with their TB teams because that's when they can.

Cannonball · Jan 31, 2020

We put on a tournament each year. We will have some NAIA, JUCO, D-III ... coaches attend every year. We have more than a few times a D-II coach or two attend. We have 5 D-II schools within an hour of our diamond. Our tournament is two days and starts just after our school dismisses. We have three diamonds going. So, that early start is when the D-II schools show up. They don't show up on Saturday.

grmerrill · Jan 31, 2020

Maybe we're having a difference experience, because we're not a softball hotspot. Our local schools are either D1 or Juco, no D2, no D3, no Naia in the entire state and very few in surrounding states.
But we do have schools asking for high school schedules, and DD makes it a point when taking to the coach, to say, you know X school that you have on your schedule.... that school is 15 minutes from my high school. And that her game will be rusted l Thursday afternoon before their Friday-Sunday series.
The big schools that recruited their 2021s last fall don't care, but there are a lot of schools that are appropriate for DD that do care.

Megobee · Feb 1, 2020

Sorry- Late to the party and i didnt read everything.
HS is different than TB in that you play for a season , not just a weekend and if you liked the team or the coach, it would offer you a fulfilling experience you cant get in TB.

1) HS doesnt matter to college coaches, (High level coaches that i know you know have confirmed this. ) but if you dont play, have a positive reason why you chose to do something else (like cross training or playing another sport or even coaching a younger team)
2) when talking with college coaches about HS ball, speak positively/constructively. Dont talk about the drama or how bad the coach was.
3) If not playing, i strongly urge that you continue to practice on your own and play another sport. It could be anything from track and field to tennis or as mentioned previously, coaching kids. have fun and choose something you can enjoy.

GoRight · Feb 1, 2020

Megobee said:
Sorry- Late to the party and i didnt read everything.
HS is different than TB in that you play for a season , not just a weekend and if you liked the team or the coach, it would offer you a fulfilling experience you cant get in TB.

1) HS doesnt matter to college coaches, (High level coaches that i know you know have confirmed this. ) but if you dont play, have a positive reason why you chose to do something else (like cross training or playing another sport or even coaching a younger team)
2) when talking with college coaches about HS ball, speak positively/constructively. Dont talk about the drama or how bad the coach was.
3) If not playing, i strongly urge that you continue to practice on your own and play another sport. It could be anything from track and field to tennis or as mentioned previously, coaching kids. have fun and choose something you can enjoy.

This is great advice. Thank you. She’s probably going to go to the high school tryouts and just hope for enough work to keep her in shape. Again she is not against the girls or even the coach really. She knows it is what it is, just hoping for a better experience and it’s hard to put in work when you are cast to the side and the bench really doesn’t get put through drills or real practice.

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radness · Feb 2, 2020

Rolling Hard said:
" Almost irrelevant" ?????? Come on man!

Huntington HS, Edison HS, Los Alamitos HS, Mater Dei HS, Orange Lutheran HS, Santa Margarita HS, Cypress HS and many more teams are extremely competitive. Most have a starting pitchers and many of their players committed to a D-1. CIF games are insanely intense and will have 200 to 300 plus spectators easily. Far from irrelevant. Orange County takes their HS softball pretty seriously.

Irrelevant to showcasing college goal.
If those h.s. dropped sb.
Travel ball showcasing would continue doing the trick as it does for ALL THE OTHER softball players who dont go to those h.s.

Add even going to those h.s. still have to get good grades and contact colleges....oh and SHOWCASE IN TRAVEL BALL

Strike2 · Feb 2, 2020

Hillhouse said:
College coaches cannot go to HS games, in most places. In the NE USA, the seasons are the same so the college coach is worried about his own season, doesn't have time for recruiting. And I'm pretty sure the NCAA recruting calendar disallows coaches to go to HS games this time of year. I think there's only 5 states in the country that play HS ball in the fall and only Iowa plays HS ball in the summer. But the recruting calendar tells when coaches are even ALLOWED to recruit. I'm fairly certain they can't, even if they wanted to right now.

Bill

I live in one of those states that run HS ball in the fall. DD's HS both hosts and attends HS tournament events specifically for college coaches. They are well attended. At least in my area, many HS teams are essentially all-star teams. Most players, even those on the bench, can play college ball somewhere.

radness · Feb 2, 2020

Strike2 said:
I live in one of those states that run HS ball in the fall. DD's HS both hosts and attends HS tournament events specifically for college coaches. They are well attended. At least in my area, many HS teams are essentially all-star teams. Most players, even those on the bench, can play college ball somewhere.

This sounds good!
What area?

murphdog · Feb 2, 2020

If anything HS ball teaches girls to deal with animosity, to deal with being better than an upperclassman who plays over you, to play for a coach that you didn’t choose like you did a TB coach.
So many girls enter college never having sat on their TB team and all of a sudden they aren’t playing a lot and it’s hard to handle.
In the grand scheme of things it’s not going to affect her being recruited so if she’s totally miserable then I wouldn’t have her play

Cannonball · Feb 2, 2020

Just a question. Is the position then that if you live in a metropolitan area of, say, 3,5 million people and your dd is "All Area" as a freshman, sophomore ... that it doesn't matter to college coaches during recruiting? Are you saying that if you live in a state that has, for example 3 classes, and your dd is first team All State a couple of years, that it doesn't matter in the recruitment process?

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