Only if they aren't very good and your kid is a pitcher!There is a team in our area with a dad coach who's two daughter's both pitch and pitch 85% of the innings.. What's that called? Double daddy ball?
While I agree with this in general and make provisions on my team for school sports, by HS, as others have said, she'll need to choose between the two about which sport to become the most serious about. Just remember, there are far more women's swimming scholarships available than SB at the moment.
While I agree with this in general and make provisions on my team for school sports, by HS, as others have said, she'll need to choose between the two about which sport to become the most serious about. Just remember, there are far more women's swimming scholarships available than SB at the moment.
Curious how you arrived at that? I think it's the other way around.
There is roughly 2.5x as many female athletes playing softball in college versus swimming (roughly 33000 softball, 13,500 swimming)
However if a NCAA college has a swimming program, they likely have more scholarships FOR swimming than they do for softball
Swimming:
D1 - 14 scholarships (softball 12)
D2 - 8.1 scholarships (softball 7.2)
NAIA - 8 (softball 10)
JUCO - 14 (softball 24)
Yes these numbers are clearly arbitrary.
However there is just less programs offering swimming:
Swimming
NCAA DI: 199 (SB 296)
NCAA DII: 106 (SB 291)
NAIA: 36 (SB 194)
NJCAA: 65 (SB 354)
At D3 schools there is 415 softball programs versus less than 200 for swimming.
I am also told that many swim programs have trouble filling teams so it is possible there is more free scholarships available than there are in softball where I have not yet run into a program that isn't spending every scholarship dollar they can get access to.
Using the figures you supplied for D1, D2 and NAIA I get 7587 available scholarships for softball and only 3933 for swimming and diving. If NJCAA is included it would add another 8496 available scholarships for softball to 910 for swimming and diving. I left that out because I highly doubt most NJCAA’s aren’t using all 24 scholarships.
I know many D1 and D2 softball programs don’t use all of their allotted scholarships so these would be estimates. I think its clear there are far more softball scholarships available than swimming and diving. Maybe he meant as you suggested it’s easier to get a swimming scholarship because they have trouble filling teams.
Thanks for kicking starting this one back up, I'm in need of a team change and these post help me understand a little better what I'm about to go through.The time is upon us again...buckle up