- Feb 3, 2011
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Two practices in, I'm already exhausted!
I'm doing 10u again, and as was the case in the spring, I've got a lot of 8u girls playing up, including my AC's DD who is only 7 years old. In a rec league, sometimes things go right, sometimes things go wrong, but for some unknown reason, none of the 8u spring coaches was willing to take an 8u team for the fall.
We're small in stature, but so far, I'm loving this team. I haven't had a chance to get to know all the parents yet, but 1 has already volunteered to keep score, 3 are already helping us run practice drills, and an older sister has volunteered to work with our pitchers once a week.
Even though we are very young, the one advantage is that everyone has at least 1 season of spring rec behind them and most have more, so all the players have a pretty good idea of how to set up in the batter's box and know how to field, throw, catch, etc. For the 8u players - even the ones who are very talented - the biggest difference will be the speed of the game. In our region, there is a huge jump in game speed from 8u to 10u.
Having seen some of the other teams out there, including the other 10u team in our league, I know we're going to have the youngest 10u team in NorCal, but I expect that we'll be able to compete pretty well with the older girls. I just cannot believe that the summer season just ended 3 weeks ago and we're already playing softball again. I could use another week off......especially with this heat!
Oh well, let the fun begin.
I'm doing 10u again, and as was the case in the spring, I've got a lot of 8u girls playing up, including my AC's DD who is only 7 years old. In a rec league, sometimes things go right, sometimes things go wrong, but for some unknown reason, none of the 8u spring coaches was willing to take an 8u team for the fall.
We're small in stature, but so far, I'm loving this team. I haven't had a chance to get to know all the parents yet, but 1 has already volunteered to keep score, 3 are already helping us run practice drills, and an older sister has volunteered to work with our pitchers once a week.
Even though we are very young, the one advantage is that everyone has at least 1 season of spring rec behind them and most have more, so all the players have a pretty good idea of how to set up in the batter's box and know how to field, throw, catch, etc. For the 8u players - even the ones who are very talented - the biggest difference will be the speed of the game. In our region, there is a huge jump in game speed from 8u to 10u.
Having seen some of the other teams out there, including the other 10u team in our league, I know we're going to have the youngest 10u team in NorCal, but I expect that we'll be able to compete pretty well with the older girls. I just cannot believe that the summer season just ended 3 weeks ago and we're already playing softball again. I could use another week off......especially with this heat!
Oh well, let the fun begin.
