- Jul 18, 2016
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Just curious what thoughts the parents and coaches familiar with youth travel softball have on this...
My daughter tried out and made an experienced/competitive 12U travel team that was looking for two new players, this would give them a roster of 11. She was told playing time would be limited and she needed to earn her spot. Fair enough, no problems there. After an entire season of never missing practice (2-3 nights a week) attending all clinics, tournaments, events offered + private lessons, while getting positive feedback from the coaches on her performance---she spent most of her time on the bench. Although, she spent more time sitting than playing, she was getting subbed and or alternated with regularity and even starting sometimes. When asked what she could do to get more playing time, the response was just keep working hard, you are doing great, you show up and do your job when you are on the field, but your still the youngest player...I'm not sure what to think of the situation and or how it follows a coach's mentality as it's happened twice now.
My questions is this: As a coach your starting catcher or other position player is making a lot of repeated mistakes, do you
A. Pull the starting player, and give it to the 2nd string who is performing better and work the player back into her starting position?
or
B. Move the starting catcher to a starting infield position where she has very limited fielding experience, in turn moving the weakest infield player to the outfield and continue to bench the 10/11th kid without even a thought of increased playing time?
Help me out! Because right now, I can't help but to think my daughter is getting shafted & I really like this team/organization/players/parents and coaches.
My daughter tried out and made an experienced/competitive 12U travel team that was looking for two new players, this would give them a roster of 11. She was told playing time would be limited and she needed to earn her spot. Fair enough, no problems there. After an entire season of never missing practice (2-3 nights a week) attending all clinics, tournaments, events offered + private lessons, while getting positive feedback from the coaches on her performance---she spent most of her time on the bench. Although, she spent more time sitting than playing, she was getting subbed and or alternated with regularity and even starting sometimes. When asked what she could do to get more playing time, the response was just keep working hard, you are doing great, you show up and do your job when you are on the field, but your still the youngest player...I'm not sure what to think of the situation and or how it follows a coach's mentality as it's happened twice now.
My questions is this: As a coach your starting catcher or other position player is making a lot of repeated mistakes, do you
A. Pull the starting player, and give it to the 2nd string who is performing better and work the player back into her starting position?
or
B. Move the starting catcher to a starting infield position where she has very limited fielding experience, in turn moving the weakest infield player to the outfield and continue to bench the 10/11th kid without even a thought of increased playing time?
Help me out! Because right now, I can't help but to think my daughter is getting shafted & I really like this team/organization/players/parents and coaches.