Oh no, not DD. She has speech issues too and would never. The sad thing is this girl is one of the weaker players and is on a new team every season. Her parents are praying she gets invited back and asked me not to say anything, their daughter accepted the apology and that was the end of it. So many of the parents on this team seem to have Stockholm Syndrome - they live in fear of this coach but can't/won't leave no matter what she does to their daughters. Sad, really sad.
It really does suck, this year has been rough one it with. I've been running a team for the last 3 years, local travel team. All the girls within 45 minutes of practices. We have a small population so we can't exactly supply the players for several high end teams. Its like every year around this time we would start to get solid in playing and then people would drop off deciding they were done with travel or the team. This was particularly bad, we were putting together a solid team, had some obvious skill gaps that needed work but around here, we can't have try outs, we have to scout players because there just isn't enough. Sure enough, a few of the core players decide they're going to leave the team because the parents can do a better job coaching. (keep in mind these parents have tried and failed twice before to keep a team going longer than a season or two). With so few players you end up picking up who you can that's willing to play and before you know it, others leave because of who you pick up to play.
Clearly there are hard feelings, are you the coach? If so, you can be upset all you want but if these kids aren't happy, moving up, or just moving on you have to take all that into context. If they are moving up, cheer them on and in the other two cases cheer them on! MOVE ON. Sometimes people think the grass is greener when it really isn't. All of this is a learning experience, for kids and the parents too.
Nope, not a coach. DD pitches on the team. And, again, no hard feelings. Liked all the girls and their parents. Replacing some of the stronger players on your team with those of equal or greater ability is not easy regardless of the circumstances surrounding the departing players. I am sure everything will turn out fine and I wish the departing girls well. I am just saying that having to partly redesign a smoothly running machine on the fly just kinda blows. But, as they say, it is what it is.
also tough on a player once they commit to a coach, after having been told by the HC his plan for the the depth chart scenario for here position if player accepts, including being told really limited PT opportunity at her secondary position (mostly chewed up by Ps when they are not pitching), player acknowledging and telling HC she is on board and understands, then two weeks later being told HC brought another player at her primary position, because he was worried she was not coming back (after telling him she was committing to him, not attending any other tryouts) based on rumours.
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