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  1. J

    Getting the most bang for your buck at College Camps

    My daughter has attended the last two years. The first to get a sample of meeting coaches and talking with them during the drills. The second was to make an impression with the schools she was interested in. Last year they had a new emphasis on conditioning. It was a wake up call to the...
  2. J

    National Scouting Report

    Everyone needs to remember that the player and her parents will still have to do the heavy lifting. Going to camps. Sending emails to the coaches. Talking with the coaches within the rules. Knowing if the college still needs a player in your daughters position. You can waste a lot of time...
  3. J

    Firing a Coach

    I missed the parents asking to see the batting averages during the tournament. I would not have let the parents see it during a tournament. Afterward, in discussions with the players, I can see making general points with the team as a whole and then discussing improvement that need to be made...
  4. J

    Firing a Coach

    GET OUT. GET OUT. GET OUT NOW. You did the right thing. If the HC will not use the stats (I assume they were correctly logged) as an important tool in helping the girls on the team play to their potential, the team will not go very far and usually one or two players will be blamed for the...
  5. J

    Parents calling out pitches.

    When my DD was in first year 12U rec league and just starting to pitch to batters, I had a fan from another town call out the pitches to the batters. After a few calls, I calmly stood up and told him not to try to read the signs since I would call them out for everyone to hear. He just...
  6. J

    Help Needed...Loss of Speed for DD

    After 7 years of catching for pitching lessons and DD2 pitching now as a freshman, the key I believe is what ArkFastpitch said. Stay tall, relaxed, and smooth. Tensing up to try to really put some speed on the ball only slows the pitch down. My DD2 was hitting 60 pretty regularly in her HS...
  7. J

    3 pitches

    Three pitches maybe four. But not every girl can be proficient with a drop or rise. It comes more naturally with some pitchers while others struggle. My DD throws what we call a cut ball which is basically a drop curve and sometimes a rise curve. It is her best out pitch if the ump will...
  8. J

    To pitch or not to pitch

    No as a right handed pitcher her screwball was moving into the hands of a RH batter. The problem was her "pitching coach" who had been with the team for 8 weeks at that point thought she was "a left handed pitcher" so he didn't understand why her screwball moved exactly as it was supposed to...
  9. J

    To pitch or not to pitch

    Depends if it is a pattern and multiple other factors. Our experience with our first travel team was that my DD or another pitcher would have a good day and the team would get to the finals. Then either one of the two would start the game and be "replaced" or the new "pitching coaches" DD...
  10. J

    Face masks

    My DD said that if a college refused to recruit her because she wore a mask it was their loss. A great attitude from my point of view
  11. J

    "A line drive straight to my face" By Ashley Pais

    Is it not a "stance" to require your DD to wear a mask when most are players are not. Are you and your DD not setting an example for others by using a mask. I would say most people have to be proven wrong about wearing a mask (someone getting hit) before they really consider the...
  12. J

    "A line drive straight to my face" By Ashley Pais

    While she may be off on the avg HS pitchers speed, I used to calculate as I was sitting on the bucket just how quick my DD's ball was getting to me as she grew older and got faster. At 60 mph the ball is traveling at 88 feet per second. So if the release point is roughly 40 or 41 feet as...
  13. J

    Hit by line drive yesterday.

    Mask Just curious. Not trying to start anything. Just trying to filter thru all the different ways of thinking about this issue. Why will you let your daughter make the decision? Will you discuss the different options or just let her make it by herself with no input from you? Again...
  14. J

    Hit by line drive yesterday.

    Again with the ignorant question. Can we agree that some parents (myself included) insist that their DD pitch with a mask and wear a mask on the infield. Mine has had hers since 11U when she started pitching to batters. As a freshman this year sometimes (both pitchers are freshmen on our...
  15. J

    What are the absolutes of pitching?

    Learn how to throw efficiently and effectively by getting ahead in the count early and getting batters out. The fewer batters a pitcher faces or pitches thrown each inning the better. Fewer pitches equal less energy expended equals a more rested pitcher. I don't know how many games I have...

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