- Feb 8, 2009
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It's become a vicious circle. The girl nextdoor forgoes other sports and activities to get better at pitching. Yor daughter is a pitcher too, but she likes to play other sports. She falls behind as a pitcher if she follows those interests.What does she do?My kid plays vball, track and softball. She is a pitcher which requires considerable amount of practice time of course - and the frustrating thing for me, internally, is that I see other girls, not as naturally talented as my kid is, focusing on one sport, and passing her up while she is off to vball or track. She plays whatever is current at 110% - and so takes considerable effort to stay with the pitching practice that is needed. This year, her sophomore year, we will spend the required time doing pitching practices, in spite of vball practice.
She misses a lot of show opportunity - for example, a team she will play with has an excellent set of fall showcases some against college teams, that my dd will miss - to go play vball. She is a good vball player ( all district as a freshman) , but she is 5.6 will probably max there at one more inch - and probably wouldnt cut it as a college vball player. To get a vball ride, all it takes is to be 6 foot and have the ability to jump up and down. Softball, as we know, is a different story.