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I would certainly hope so. It’s absolutely retarded not to evaluate every player that comes to tryouts on the same merits.
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This is a public school with a state ranked team and they only look at the TB girls.My DD, her mom and I spoke to the Softball coaches at the HS she will go to in the fall. They told us in pretty much obvious words that if a girl does not only play on a travel ball team but on an elite level travel ball team and goes to fielding, hitting, pitching... lessons with known coaches ontop of that, they should probably not even waste everyone's time trying out for softball.
It is a private school though so maybe some of the public schools are more accepting of rec players
Norco? Gahr? Great Oak? Los Alamitos? Huntington Beach?This is a public school with a state ranked team and they only look at the TB girls.
#18 La Serna High school. Los Alamitos is coached by the 18 gold coach from the Firecrackers so I’m guessing that it’s not any better at those locations. Sorry to say but this s a real thingNorco? Gahr? Great Oak? Los Alamitos? Huntington Beach?
Los Al is where my DD would go If she did go to public HS. I know from friends neighbors and TB teammates that park and rec girls aren't even considered really to play there. All that and they still got bounced in the second round of the D1 playoffs.#18 La Serna High school. Los Alamitos is coached by the 18 gold coach from the Firecrackers so I’m guessing that it’s not any better at those locations. Sorry to say but this s a real thing
My DD, her mom and I spoke to the Softball coaches at the HS she will go to in the fall. They told us in pretty much obvious words that if a girl does not only play on a travel ball team but on an elite level travel ball team and goes to fielding, hitting, pitching... lessons with known coaches ontop of that, they should probably not even waste everyone's time trying out for softball.
It is a private school though so maybe some of the public schools are more accepting of rec players
Are you talking about La Serna in Whittier. That’s our school or Whittier Christian , St Paul perhaps for private. La Serna just won the league finals.I know the school you're talking about. A former player on my DD's 14U TB team goes there. She's a decent ballplayer, but not among the top players on our team. She made the JV team at that HS. Another friend's DD is a catcher (14yo stud). She made the Varsity team as a freshman, but hated the environment, and moved to another school after the first semester.
For public HS, they are pretty much stuck with being able to only draw from the population of students they have. If that population has good depth of TB talent, they can build a strong team. If they don't, they won't. My DD's HS has very few TB players, and the Varsity team was composed of TB, rec, and HS-only players. It was a rough year, as has been the school's history, and is expected to continue that way. A majority of the TB talent in the school's area goes to private schools, or figures out how to go to a stronger softball school out of the district.
Bolded is funny..so if a kid is playing SS and batting third for the Firecrackers but doesn't go to hitting and fielding lessons they won't take them.. I am sure, even nowadays, while few and far between some of those types of kids exist, especially if their parents know what they are doing from an instructional standpoint.My DD, her mom and I spoke to the Softball coaches at the HS she will go to in the fall. They told us in pretty much obvious words that if a girl does not only play on a travel ball team but on an elite level travel ball team and goes to fielding, hitting, pitching... lessons with known coaches ontop of that, they should probably not even waste everyone's time trying out for softball.
It is a private school though so maybe some of the public schools are more accepting of rec players
There's a thousand Firecracker teams and they range from barely better than park and rec to Tonys hand picked studs. But if you think that the girls on the top 12 and 14u teams are not going to a hitting coach and fielding classes every month you'd be mistaken. Many of the top HS teams have coaches giving fielding classes starting with 12u and even 10s in some cases weekly. It's how they pick the girls to come to their schools. And the area is filled with indoor facilities like STC, EM Speed, 714 Fastpitch, Softball Workshop, Firecracker facility, Corona Angels facility.... loaded with lessons from former college and pro softball players charging 20-45 bucks for 30 minute lessons Mon-Fri til 10 pm.Bolded is funny..so if a kid is playing SS and batting third for the Firecrackers but doesn't go to hitting and fielding lessons they won't take them.. I am sure, even nowadays, while few and far between some of those types of kids exist, especially if their parents know what they are doing from an instructional standpoint.