Greenmonsters
Wannabe Duck Boat Owner
Eric/Chris: Her HS workouts are under way and she is a senior. She has played TB since the early days. School conferences are based on enrollment numbers and we are grouped with the big schools. It is a strong region for travel ball and those kids make up the HS rosters in our conference. At the varsity level, we consistently face college committed pitching, not SEC bound or anything but pretty good day in and day out. DD's BA was third highest in the conference overall last year. Interestingly, the top two were LH as well, but both of those were slappers. Behind these were some commits to Big 10 and other D1s.
DD is looking forward to the HS season, but she is also looking forward to NOT playing in college. She has this final season before hanging it up. Some better power would be great this year if it didn't sacrifice average very much. DD is not a big heavy kid and her bat speed isn't ridiculous. The team does have some big HR hitters as well but DD has always been a line driver. I surely love working with her and will miss it very much when this is over.
Given the specifics of the situation, particularly that this spring is it for softball, I think you'd be crazy to make any major changes trying to make her a HR threat. Maybe just look more often for the inside pitch to pull and drive when there's a runner on third with less than two outs.