My DD is in her first year of 12U, and is coming along well with her pitching. While there is always so much to work on, my wife and I are being extra, extra careful with her arm health. We know some friends battling arm injuries with their older pitching daughters and honestly we just don't want her unable to lift her arm when she's in her 30s.
So this year we're trying really, really hard to take an entire 8 weeks off. Last game she pitched was Dec 12th so we're almost at 7 weeks. We took about 4 weeks off from everything but have started back up with fielding and hitting.
Coach is completely supportive of the long break, even though it has us not ready to pitch our first scrimmage back. Coach has a few new pitchers on the team who just joined and we'd all like to see them on the mound anyway.
So this year we're trying really, really hard to take an entire 8 weeks off. Last game she pitched was Dec 12th so we're almost at 7 weeks. We took about 4 weeks off from everything but have started back up with fielding and hitting.
Coach is completely supportive of the long break, even though it has us not ready to pitch our first scrimmage back. Coach has a few new pitchers on the team who just joined and we'd all like to see them on the mound anyway.