The two things that jump out at me are the "chicken wing" rear elbow, and the lack of use of her back. There are certainly lots of players that use a high rear elbow with success, but if it's getting above the rear shoulder, it's excessive (IMO). For my DD, we found that keeping her rear elbow low works better for her. In the side-view clips, you can see that her torso is leaning forward. There's no pulling with the back muscles. When this is happening, it often results in a downward barrel path producing pop-up and weak grounders. I would prefer to see her engaging the muscles of the back to keep her torso and head stacked over the rear hip (pulling rearward a bit behind the hip is okay, too). Make sure the rear hip joint is getting fully extended.
We've been discussing the chicken wing a lot! Have not been able to make that change yet but its in the works LOL. Im trying to get her to maintain a tighter grip when the elbow does come up so she can turn the barrel quicker.
I can see what you saying about the back. We have not got that far into it, yet.
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