Thanks Steve, I look forward to more posts from you and your perspective.
I was on lunch hour when I posted. I went back and added a couple of things to quantify, qualify some issues.
Thanks Steve, I look forward to more posts from you and your perspective.
I have a friend whose DD is at a major D1 in TX. He says that is not so much the team or the game, but a group of hangers on that latched on to his DD. He talks to me about the world of softball players. It is so different than baseball.
For most kids they are in college to get educated. Softball may be the means to that end, but when the softball gets in the way of your education. Its not a matter of what you love, but what you have to do. Playing softball and getting a degree that allows you to work at your pick of Dick's sporting goods or Dunhams may sound great to some (no offense to retail employees) but if what the kid wants to do is be a doctor. Dropping out of softball is not because they don't love it, its because they are planning for the rest of their life.The fact that it is hard to do is what makes it great. Some embrace that notion... Some do not and just say that it is too hard.
You have to love it. The hours spent training and practicing should fly by like minutes because of how locked in you are to getting better and better and better at something you love.
For most kids they are in college to get educated. Softball may be the means to that end, but when the softball gets in the way of your education. Its not a matter of what you love, but what you have to do. Playing softball and getting a degree that allows you to work at your pick of Dick's sporting goods or Dunhams may sound great to some (no offense to retail employees) but if what the kid wants to do is be a doctor. Dropping out of softball is not because they don't love it, its because they are planning for the rest of their life.
For most kids they are in college to get educated. Softball may be the means to that end, but when the softball gets in the way of your education. Its not a matter of what you love, but what you have to do. Playing softball and getting a degree that allows you to work at your pick of Dick's sporting goods or Dunhams may sound great to some (no offense to retail employees) but if what the kid wants to do is be a doctor. Dropping out of softball is not because they don't love it, its because they are planning for the rest of their life.