Hopefully you responded with everything has always been perfectly clear.On the way out of practice the catcher's dad caught up to my dd and said "everything clear now" after the HC's talk with her in a smug kind of way. What a jerk, I wanted to punch the guy in the face. Not really, I'm not a violent person but seriously mean and this guy is supposedly "coaching" my dd. I have no doubt his work is anti-productive. I just learned he screwed around with her swing at the beginning of the season so...
Why does the volunteer coach not just step aside?sorry this sucks so hard
we have the exact opposite position......we have a head coach with no kids, an assistant with no kids, and then two volunteer assistants (myself and another), both with kids on our HS team........we sit at 40 straight wins, two time defending state champs.....small school, 16 girls total, to be honest the bottom of our lineup is the thinnest it has been in 4 years
all we do is make decisions that benefit the team......i've had a ton of experience coaching my daughters, never had an issue, if you ask my kids they've had it tougher than their teammates, but it has worked out for them.......DD1 is a high end student, pre law, 25 starts her freshman year.....
anyhow, we have one parent who just accuses the other assistant of favoring his own.......everything is a meeting or phone call with the AD.....to the point where he's nervous scoring her as reached on an error in game changer and consults with all of us first
both their DDs are pitchers.....we view it as 1A and 1B, we double barrel the big games, last year they finished with like 55 & 58 innings each......but everything we do ends up being scrutinized and whined about......it's gotten old, it's not as much fun a ride as it should be
Seems like that's already the situation.The situation sucks, but there is nothing that you can do that will yield what you want.
Just keep working with your DD to be undeniably better than someone else on the field.
But couldn't it be approached from a, "Why do we have parent coaches in a high school program"??? Seems no better than rec. Parents should be no where near a high school team other than in the bleachers.What possible good do you think this would do? DO NOT involve the AD in playing time issues.
Maybe I'm naive but, I have wondered why coaches would do this? You hear it over and over again about how a coach plays kids that only help the team to lose yet, coach is stubborn about them playing every inning of every game. Why? Are they in love with the kid? I can't think of any other reason. It's not like everyone else doesn't see what's going on. Don't they have any self respect?I just find it odd that a parent is even coaching a HS team - wouldn't a private school be able to afford to get actual coaches? Is the coach going to leave once his daughter graduates? At least in our school you have to be a teacher as well in order to coach.
We never had daddy ball on our school teams but def had a coach who played favorites. No matter how many errors they made or how badly they hit - there were always girls who NEVER sat.