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I assume, because of your decision to take this on, that you know what those good fundamentals are. Given that, I'm curious why your DD wasn't learning that at home before you decided to coach? Yeah, I know there are some things that require more than two people, but most things that DD does in practice can be worked on with just me on our own. We also do things that she doesn't see enough of in practice, but needs to work on to maintain proficiency.
Good luck. If it truly is just an issue of bad coaching, it would probably be more efficient to just work with your DD instead of having to work with 10 or 11 other girls (and their parents)..
Excellent Questions!!
So if you havent read my intro (and why would you lol) in the parents forum - My daughter is a pretty competitive cheerleader. She also happens to be a damn fine softball player. Her mom and I werent sure if she was even going to like it. Not only does she like it but she excels at it.
The last 2 teams she has been on have been high on the winning and low on the development. She and I never really worked on anything as I was being a hands off dad and just letting her do it as she wanted to. Best way I can describe it catching, throwing and hitting (especially the hitting) just came natural. Every team that we have contacted and/or tried out for have told us they wont work with her because of her cheer. She's not a pitcher and coaches (at least the ones we have talked to) just see missed games. I get it, I dont have to like it but I get it. So rather than continue to be butt hurt about it I figure Id take matters into my own hands. This past year specifically was just really bad. Started out really good and slowly started to unravel. The only girls allowed to play infield were the coaches kids (we had 5 coaches) and yeah just not what we were looking for. The travel was fine. The TOurnaments were great just not the way this team was ran.
I honestly dont want to coach. I have some knowledge (low low level stuff). My daughter has already started talking about quitting cheer but she made a high level team this year and she wont be able to play school sports yet. When she gets into 7th she plans on playing volleyball and run track and she realizes there wont be any way she can do all of that with cheer. Which leads me as to why she will be on a 14 u team. Her step dad and I are the ones running the team and we're starting it primarily for her. This way she gets to work on fundamentals and dont have to worry the whole cheer thing. His daughter will be on the team as well. After seeing her at a tryout a couple of weeks ago with a 2nd year 12A team she more than held her own so we figure what the hell - work on basics, get used to pitching distance and next year if she does quit cheer we would probably bump her up as well. I hope that makes some sense.