- Dec 19, 2008
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My 13 year old (7th grade) daughter is a pitcher. I had posted a while back that we were going thru some tough times with her team. The team had moved to 1st year 14UA ball, and at the end of the fall season, the coaches actively recruited 2 (or 3) 2nd year, bigger, faster pitchers. They will be moving to 16UA in the fall. Basically, was told daughter would not pitch.
We changed pitching coaches who pitched D1, and she has "fixed" my daughters pitching in 2 months.
We decided to move to a different team. It is a team of 6 core girls, and from the many practices so far, they have completed the roster with real talent. There is a 12U, two 14U, and a 16U team. As it turns out, this organization had a team a couple years ago that was 18U (Gold, I think) that was ranked 9th in the nation in ASA, and took 17th at the Colorado Fireworks. They want to build these teams to do this again. The head of the organozation (the one who coached the high ranking team) has made the statement that 1) He will take the girls he has and make them high ranking teams and not actively look for replacements, and 2) He will choose only "select" tournaments for the proper exposure.
This person who is in charge has alot of connections with many D1/D2 coaches. He is even good friends with the coach my daughter dreams of playing for. He has daughters who currently play college ball, and has produced D1 talent (mainly on hitting) as he teaches hitting. As a matter of fact, the D1 school my daughter wants to attend, has some of his girls on it, and one of their best hitters is a freshman, produced by this guy.
This is alot for us to take in, and I assume by the statement that we will play in only "select" tournaments picked by the head of the organization, that they will be exposure tournaments. So, is my daughters age too early for this?
*Sorry for the rambling, just had to get the facts out there, as we left one team that was moving so fast (16U for a 13 year old pitcher!!!).
We changed pitching coaches who pitched D1, and she has "fixed" my daughters pitching in 2 months.
We decided to move to a different team. It is a team of 6 core girls, and from the many practices so far, they have completed the roster with real talent. There is a 12U, two 14U, and a 16U team. As it turns out, this organization had a team a couple years ago that was 18U (Gold, I think) that was ranked 9th in the nation in ASA, and took 17th at the Colorado Fireworks. They want to build these teams to do this again. The head of the organozation (the one who coached the high ranking team) has made the statement that 1) He will take the girls he has and make them high ranking teams and not actively look for replacements, and 2) He will choose only "select" tournaments for the proper exposure.
This person who is in charge has alot of connections with many D1/D2 coaches. He is even good friends with the coach my daughter dreams of playing for. He has daughters who currently play college ball, and has produced D1 talent (mainly on hitting) as he teaches hitting. As a matter of fact, the D1 school my daughter wants to attend, has some of his girls on it, and one of their best hitters is a freshman, produced by this guy.
This is alot for us to take in, and I assume by the statement that we will play in only "select" tournaments picked by the head of the organization, that they will be exposure tournaments. So, is my daughters age too early for this?
*Sorry for the rambling, just had to get the facts out there, as we left one team that was moving so fast (16U for a 13 year old pitcher!!!).