- Aug 6, 2013
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My DD is a 2023. She would like to play college ball and of course she has some D1 schools on her wish list. She is not totally convinced on what she wants to do when she grows up but she has talked about physical therapy. If that’s the case she can probably go pretty much anywhere for her undergraduate work because she will need to move on to a PT program after graduating.
Last fall and this winter she attended some camps in our area. Both D3 and D1. She loved Liberty, FYI, and was one of just a handful in her group that hit it over their 220 fences. Haley, dd, has a big bat with good batting success in her past. Every season she has averaged over .400 and last season she had 16 HR.
The issue is, the team she is on isn’t good. We moved halfway across the country to our area in August and tryouts had already started here so we didn’t have a lot of time to do much. She attended 4 tryouts and was offered positions on all teams. We let her make the decision and she chose a newly formed team close to home with a non-parent coach who is a successful high school coach in the area. We love him and he is doing great things for Haley on the defensive side of the ball. She was a 1st baseman and he has moved her to SS - which I think makes her a stronger player but on the flip side, we notice he has taken a lot of girls that are “projects” for a lack of a better term. Girls with potential but so far in the fall it was ugly. Like run rule ugly.
Dang this is long...... anyway, with the dark period and the Pandemic she can’t attend the camps she would want to. Her HS team had a very good chance at going to state but now that is gone, and her travel team isn’t good so coaches will likely not watch IF they ever get to play here..... but I want to give her opportunities to be seen while we finish this summer with her team (moving teams is not an option). We are working on a skills video to send out. One nice thing about her team’s org is that they are 30 years established in the area and have had players move to D1 programs across the country. They also have a good presence locally with smaller schools. So we can get help getting her name out through the org. I’m wondering if after that is it worth it to livestream any of her games? With her hitting early in the lineup she usually gets 2 AB and of course she plays defense a lot (this is a 16u team with 14/15 players though) so she does sit every once in a while. This is new to us and I want to help guide this process without paying any service hopefully.
Thanks for reading my novel, lol. FWIW we realize the need to find a better team for more exposure next season, we just don’t believe in leaving in the middle of a season, although a few of her teammates did after our very difficult fall.......
Last fall and this winter she attended some camps in our area. Both D3 and D1. She loved Liberty, FYI, and was one of just a handful in her group that hit it over their 220 fences. Haley, dd, has a big bat with good batting success in her past. Every season she has averaged over .400 and last season she had 16 HR.
The issue is, the team she is on isn’t good. We moved halfway across the country to our area in August and tryouts had already started here so we didn’t have a lot of time to do much. She attended 4 tryouts and was offered positions on all teams. We let her make the decision and she chose a newly formed team close to home with a non-parent coach who is a successful high school coach in the area. We love him and he is doing great things for Haley on the defensive side of the ball. She was a 1st baseman and he has moved her to SS - which I think makes her a stronger player but on the flip side, we notice he has taken a lot of girls that are “projects” for a lack of a better term. Girls with potential but so far in the fall it was ugly. Like run rule ugly.
Dang this is long...... anyway, with the dark period and the Pandemic she can’t attend the camps she would want to. Her HS team had a very good chance at going to state but now that is gone, and her travel team isn’t good so coaches will likely not watch IF they ever get to play here..... but I want to give her opportunities to be seen while we finish this summer with her team (moving teams is not an option). We are working on a skills video to send out. One nice thing about her team’s org is that they are 30 years established in the area and have had players move to D1 programs across the country. They also have a good presence locally with smaller schools. So we can get help getting her name out through the org. I’m wondering if after that is it worth it to livestream any of her games? With her hitting early in the lineup she usually gets 2 AB and of course she plays defense a lot (this is a 16u team with 14/15 players though) so she does sit every once in a while. This is new to us and I want to help guide this process without paying any service hopefully.
Thanks for reading my novel, lol. FWIW we realize the need to find a better team for more exposure next season, we just don’t believe in leaving in the middle of a season, although a few of her teammates did after our very difficult fall.......
