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    No more Friday games! Showcase Season underway

    Same in Florida for D9, lots of non-D1 coaches at the Friday games. Girls need to do their work to invite coaches to their games!
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    After meeting with organizations recruiting coordinator

    Building her list will take a little time and research, but it is an important exercise. The time spent with the web searching will let her explore the info about different colleges, including locations, majors, programs, coach backgrounds, and where the girls on the softball team roster come...
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    Softball pants

    Gluv or Bellalete - both without buttons, much more athletic fit, not so baggy.
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    Mother Nature

    Constant rainouts over the last 2 weeks in So Cal too, is anybody getting to play?!
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    Jocelyn Alo

    She is very fun to watch - clearly enjoying every second of it.
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    Recruitment and Test Scores for 8,9,10 graders

    JAD - I wanted to thank you for sharing so much on this forum, your experiences with your daughter are very helpful to my daughter (2021 LHP) who is targeting high-academic schools for engineering. She is taking the ACT next weekend, as coaches are asking for scores and she figured no reason to...
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    How are our college freshmen doing?

    I just want to thank everyone for these updates - going to have my HS freshmen read them so she can get a more realistic expectation of what it will be like in four years. Please keep the info coming!
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    Any Positive Outcome Stories of Pitchers post ACL surgery?

    Rachel Garcia, UCLA ace pitcher tore her ACL during CIF playoffs her senior year of high school. She had surgery and had to sit out her freshman year. Wears a brace but arguably one of the best pitchers in college when she came back for the 2017 season. She is a very nice young woman, and I...
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    Practice shoes?

    For practice on turf or mat over asphalt or concrete we use sneakers with shoe goo. Depending on the makeup of the mat, we used to have to reapply shoe goo after every session. But new facility she has been training in does not wear as much and we have not had to reapply. For indoor fielding...
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    List of worst pitches for Bucket moms/dads to catch

    Definitely the drop ball. I go sidesaddle for that one and at least half the time let the bucket take it. Just because I don't catch it doesn't make it a bad pitch! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Who's is your daddy on Friday check in 6/17/16

    Rec All Star Districts here in SoCal start today
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    Middle School Team Rules / Playbook?

    My DD is 7th this year. Our MS team is historically a mix of 6th, 7th and 8th graders. One thing our coach did last year that I thought was pretty neat was that he paired each of the 4 pitchers with one of the 4 catchers and each battery got 2 innings in a row, rotating through the 4 batteries...
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    Slap or hit away?

    Great slapper, great bunter, great hitter? And with speed? Sounds like a perfect triple-threat to me, she should be able to do whatever makes the most sense with each individual at bat, based on other base-runners and/or the where the defense is positioned. Why not work on all three?
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    Curt Schilling - really????

    Well of course any one of us would have done better ... it is my dream to call a softball or baseball game on TV! I agree with most that he was not a great commentator, but that was mostly because his pacing was off and he mumbled too much. When he did speak, it was generally amusing although...
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    weird back injury

    Based on a similar experience with my DD, I would recommend getting it checked out quickly by someone who knows shoulders. It could be any number of things, most likely fixed with rest and some PT or shoulder exercises. I wish we had dealt with it at the first sign of pain, instead of waiting...
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    NCAA regionals start today

    Oregon will be live streaming all games - so even though no TV, you can still watch at University of Oregon | Pac-12
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    Turf is killing shoes

    We use cheap (but supportive and well fitting) sneakers and clear Shoe Goo - after every indoor pitching session she wears through the shoe goo about to the rubber and we just re-goo it and wear them again the next time. You can put it right where you need it, doesn't matter how it looks...
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    Noooooooo

    Sad, but not unexpected. Lots of girls will want to play for her in college wherever she ends up in a HC job.
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    Saw this online and wanted to share.....good read for all the bucket parents!

    I love this. As a devoted bucket mom I am always blown away by my daughter's composure out there on the rubber. But this was a good reminder that any opposing pitcher we face is someone's daughter too, and if she is struggling, we have to be careful what we say. I have said "don't help her...
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    New coach...needs help with 8u batting lineup

    We are talking about 8U, right? 6 and 7 year olds? First exposure to softball? Everyone hits, the batting order shouldn't matter. Your goal as a coach is to teach them fundamentals, demonstrate great examples of sportsmanship (having some of the older girls help at practice and in the dugout...

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