Your DD may throw 65MPH, but if she cannot throw a strike the coach is going to have to pull her. I am always amazed at parents who complain about the coaching their DD is receiving at the rec level. If you want your DD to be a pitcher you need to take responsibility for making it happen. 99% of rec coaches and 90% of TB coaches are NOT qualified to give pitching lessons or instruction. You need to get her into lessons and if that is not an option, buy an instructional DVD or watch videos on YouTube, then work with her at home.
This is good advice, at least for the rec. programs I’m familiar with. Yours may vary.
You seem to be on the right track. Keep working at finding a good pitching coach.
I’m amazed that some people (typically the parent of the pitcher) expect everyone else at a fastpitch game to be held hostage by 1 player. Every other kid in the game, in the dugout and every spectator has to find something to do to pass time while Susie works on her worm and birdie killing skills. The vast majority of “learning how to pitch” needs to take place away from ANY game. If that’s all Suzie is doing is throwing balls in a rec game and then nothing else (I know you’re not) she has no business holding everyone hostage. The coach should find her another position.
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