Help!!!!

My daughter is 9. This is her first year of majors (little league). She does great in the field, she tracks the ball well, makes plays and shows no signs of fear. Offensively, it's a complete 180. In the past, she has displayed confidence at the plate and done well in coach pitch divisions and younger, kid pitch divisions. She is deathly afraid of stepping in the box this year. How do I break her if that? I do I get her to regain the confidence that she once had? Any help that you can give here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Proper sequencing should be able to help.

You should be teaching her to stand in relaxed athletic position in the box, she should shift weight slightly back, coil while striding forward a little, separate from hands, when all stretched, separated coiled back at her farthest point forward with front foot and back with hands begin putting pressure on her back foot to release her hips, followed by her elbow slotting and hands releasing.

SHE DOES THIS EVERY PITCH REGARDLESS OF IF SHE INTENDS TO SWING OR NOT to include hands releasing.

The point of all that mumbo jumbo...beside having everyone on the board come down on me like on ton of bricks for not having a clue about how to teach a swing (it should be entertaining at the very least) is this...she has to aggressively begin to swing at EVERY pitch and only stop swinging if the pitch is out of the strike zone.

NEVER think or act is it a good pitch, is it a good pitch, OK I'll swing now! The thought in her head and the actions of her body should be swing, swing, swing stop. or swing swing swing swing. By this method she does not have the option she becomes the aggressor and sets the tone. One big thing at this age to is the stride forward it has to be straight towards the pitcher don't let her step out draw a line put down something so she can't step out. All this is to establish an attitude that the batters box is hers and she is on the attack.

How is the pitching she is facing?

Does she like to practice with you? If so go out to the field and start with some defensive practice then move to hitting. Throw her balls and try and just let her hit some good ones and praise them. Once she remembers she can hit the ball she will regain her confidence. Try and not over instruct until she is starting to come around. Most likely she will improve and you can start incorporating all the excellent advice you get from this site. Worst case scenario is you get to spend a lot of time with your daughter.

Teach her how to get out of the way of a pitch.

Does your league use "incrediballs" still, or is it regular compression (the hard ones)? Our league uses incrediballs for K-3rd grades. Maybe she doesn't realize how little she'd even feel it if she did get hit with one of those?

What has worked for me is take a soft foam ball, put the batter in the batter box with the bat in the proper stance and pitch the ball at them until they feel comfortable they can get out of the way. Teach the batter to turn away from the pitch toward the backstop; for a ball the batter cannot get out of the way of, pinch you neck into your shoulders, drop the bat behind your body.