ez_softball
Life at the diamond...
- Apr 14, 2017
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My daughter has worked hard to become an excellent player and has had a successful travel ball and HS career. She is entering her senior season of HS and just finished up playing up for one of the best 18U travel ball teams in the area. By the numbers she is one of the best players both offensively and defensively in either setting. If you look at offensive numbers she leads many areas and is top 3 in every meaningful category. Defensively she plays middle infield and has been a HS all-conference selection the past (2) seasons.
At this point, I literally have smaller, regional, college coaches calling me at home and emailing me with an interest in having her play for their programs. My daughter doesn't care and is basically saying that she's only willing to play for one specific college. IMHO, this isn't a situation where she has overshot her real potential with a dream D1 program. The school she wants to play for and attend is a local NAIA school where she knows the coach fairly well. I think she is talented enough to play for that school but there are no guarantees that the coach wants/needs her for his current roster.
I guess my question is, have others had similar issues with their own daughters and if so, how do they deal with helping their daughters keep an open mind to these other opportunities?
At this point, I literally have smaller, regional, college coaches calling me at home and emailing me with an interest in having her play for their programs. My daughter doesn't care and is basically saying that she's only willing to play for one specific college. IMHO, this isn't a situation where she has overshot her real potential with a dream D1 program. The school she wants to play for and attend is a local NAIA school where she knows the coach fairly well. I think she is talented enough to play for that school but there are no guarantees that the coach wants/needs her for his current roster.
I guess my question is, have others had similar issues with their own daughters and if so, how do they deal with helping their daughters keep an open mind to these other opportunities?