After the last fall tournament DD and her friend were having doubts about her travel ball team. One game she batted twice and played a total of 1 inning on defense. Similar in the next game. Last game of the day - came in and pinch hit and played 1 inning of defense. We have a 13 girl roster and I get that not every player can play all the time but there were some girls that never sat on this team. It was honestly worse for her friend who did not bat at all on Sunday. And was only brought in to pitch after we were already down by a lot and the game was pretty much lost anyway. She did come in and pitch 3 innings of shut out ball - after our #1 pitcher gave up 9 runs in 1.2 innings. So after that day DD was talking about quitting. Her friend's mom did contact the coach and he said he was sorry for not playing her enough - so I think she is staying. But DD already had her mind made up.
We waited a few days and finally emailed her coaches last nite to say she was not coming back in the spring.
DD does not want to play in college - she is actually enlisting in the Navy after HS so she also does not want to take playing time away from the girls who actually do want to play in college. And really just wanted to have a fun time her last season.
She is looking at playing rec in the spring so she is doing something - she still really loves SB.
This is just kind of a sad time for me - she's been playing SB for over 10 years and I'm glad she is going to do rec but I will miss the car rides and hotel stays and everything else that came along with travel. It's already hard enough that soon she'll be leaving for boot camp in the summer. But I'm happy if she is able to have a fun spring before then. It's been a while since we've even see the rec side of things but she does still know girls who will be playing.
We waited a few days and finally emailed her coaches last nite to say she was not coming back in the spring.
DD does not want to play in college - she is actually enlisting in the Navy after HS so she also does not want to take playing time away from the girls who actually do want to play in college. And really just wanted to have a fun time her last season.
She is looking at playing rec in the spring so she is doing something - she still really loves SB.
This is just kind of a sad time for me - she's been playing SB for over 10 years and I'm glad she is going to do rec but I will miss the car rides and hotel stays and everything else that came along with travel. It's already hard enough that soon she'll be leaving for boot camp in the summer. But I'm happy if she is able to have a fun spring before then. It's been a while since we've even see the rec side of things but she does still know girls who will be playing.
