I can't stop thinking about what we should do next year.
My 13u daughter played her first full/real year of travel ball this year. On a 14b team.
They held practices once a week- all the way until May. Then they stopped for some reason (unhappy about that). !!! No practices after about mid May. At all.
But between May & July we played 7 tournaments (they actually mentioned 9 to us last year before tryouts though). We played 41 games total (went 22-19) and one scrimmage all year long. About 203 innings. The rain this year really messed up a lot of tournaments for us. Sometimes playing only 2 pool games instead of 4, and then only 1 hour games. whew- it was frustrating all season long to say the least.
We don't have school ball here until 9th grade (she'll play school ball this coming spring). But with so much travel ball (we thought) to look forward to this year- we messed up and skipped rec ball. We are used to a lot more softball. In years past, with rec and allstars and a travel tourn here or there- it would average at least another 100 innings or so. Plus practices a few times a week.
This year- it felt like she was never playing softball. Did anyone else feel that way after leaving rec?
Our local little league has some really bad people in charge and we really didn't want anything to do with it. But WOW- it was so much more softball.
The only difference next year will be that she will have a season of school ball (practice every day) leading up to travel season. So maybe only 200ish innings next year will be welcome? Is it enough as long as there is a school season too ?
It was a rough year for us for sure. The only bright spot was that out of 203 innings, she got 139 of them in the circle. That's probably pretty hard to beat. It just sours my feelings so badly for travel ball and for this team that I'm having trouble signing back up for another year. Her school friends all have a team too that is going to try to do 5 tournaments next year and they want to know if she'll come back and play with them instead and I know she'd prefer playing with her friends. But I'm sure it means even less softball. I really am having trouble deciding now- how much softball we will want to play next June. It's crazy and we're considering not committing to anyone yet. Has anyone ever done that? Not tried out. ? Not signed with anyone. ? Then figure out next year where to play. We really don't know what we want to do next year. It's bad.
My 13u daughter played her first full/real year of travel ball this year. On a 14b team.
They held practices once a week- all the way until May. Then they stopped for some reason (unhappy about that). !!! No practices after about mid May. At all.
But between May & July we played 7 tournaments (they actually mentioned 9 to us last year before tryouts though). We played 41 games total (went 22-19) and one scrimmage all year long. About 203 innings. The rain this year really messed up a lot of tournaments for us. Sometimes playing only 2 pool games instead of 4, and then only 1 hour games. whew- it was frustrating all season long to say the least.
We don't have school ball here until 9th grade (she'll play school ball this coming spring). But with so much travel ball (we thought) to look forward to this year- we messed up and skipped rec ball. We are used to a lot more softball. In years past, with rec and allstars and a travel tourn here or there- it would average at least another 100 innings or so. Plus practices a few times a week.
This year- it felt like she was never playing softball. Did anyone else feel that way after leaving rec?
Our local little league has some really bad people in charge and we really didn't want anything to do with it. But WOW- it was so much more softball.
The only difference next year will be that she will have a season of school ball (practice every day) leading up to travel season. So maybe only 200ish innings next year will be welcome? Is it enough as long as there is a school season too ?
It was a rough year for us for sure. The only bright spot was that out of 203 innings, she got 139 of them in the circle. That's probably pretty hard to beat. It just sours my feelings so badly for travel ball and for this team that I'm having trouble signing back up for another year. Her school friends all have a team too that is going to try to do 5 tournaments next year and they want to know if she'll come back and play with them instead and I know she'd prefer playing with her friends. But I'm sure it means even less softball. I really am having trouble deciding now- how much softball we will want to play next June. It's crazy and we're considering not committing to anyone yet. Has anyone ever done that? Not tried out. ? Not signed with anyone. ? Then figure out next year where to play. We really don't know what we want to do next year. It's bad.
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