Note: Sometimes coaches see a player and can become interested. 2 summers ago our team is playing in the Boulder IDT tourney. We had a pitcher who joined our team after moving to our area who was signed to a college in the state she came from. We were playing in a very heated game. Our team is up by a few runs in the last inning. The pitcher was doing her job, but our infield kept booting the ball and the game was slipping away. Our pitcher was getting pissed, fired up and her competitive spirit was in full force. We end up losing the game, but a D1 coach from the NE ran over to ask me about my pitcher. He was really impressed with how she handled herself. Unfortunately, she was already signed, her academics were not a good match, and the parents were not going to send her so far away. She eventually got a release from her out of state school, and signed with a program closer to home which was a better fit.When you are at an exposure tournament and you look at the college coaches behind the backstop, know this: If your daughter didn’t send them an email and/or go to a camp there, You can assume THEY ARE NOT PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO YOUR DAUGHTER. She might as well be in the dugout.
Those college coaches are probably behind the backstop watching players that reached out to them with their playing schedule OR a well connected travel coach put a bug in their ear to watch a certain player.
Some possible exceptions to above:
1) Pitchers can get noticed sometimes without showing interest in a school if they are really good.
2) Left handed power hitters with speed
3) Catchers that can hit maybe? IDK.
4) A player that just happens to be exactly what the coach needs.
The point? If you drive 4,6,10 hours to an exposure tournament and your dd isn’t doing her part by reaching out, your family is wasting time and money.
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