I heard people like to take soccer players, at least they should be able to run fast.I've enjoyed following along, my daughter got thrown into the deep end at the start of her softball career. Prior to 7th grade she had only played in the local rec league that offered modified slow pitch. Fall of '21 she played fall ball fastpitch and also did a fastpitch academy/dome league over the fall / winter which helped immensely with her fundamentals.
We didn't know if we had highschool coaches until late january '22. She went to the workouts at school and there were 15 girls, 3 dropped out after the first week. So there we are rolling into highschool season with a 7th grader with maybe 8 months of fastpitch experience playing on varsity. As a team, they went deep in the section playoffs. Personally she struggled with hitting and defensively when she played outfield (running with her glove in the air, reading the ball), playing infield she did well. But the mental/physical toughness she gained was big.
This coming season could be tough, they lost 4 girls and we are still not sure about the coaching situation. LaCrosse and Track teams at the school are stacked, hopefully we can snipe a couple of players off of those teams.