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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Not to derail the thread too much, but for the A level coach, can you share what a girl’s arm feels like after throwing that many pitches in a weekend?

My son plays baseball and I knew from one of his teammates with a softball-playing sister that their teams might have 2 pitchers on them who go the distance in a tournament, whereas a baseball team needs a ton of pitchers to go deep in a tourney.  I get that the motion is different and the stress/strain is not the same as a baseball pitch, but do their arms ever just feel tired? Like not hurt or sore, but just tired?[/quote]

Yes, of course they do! There has not been nearly as much research on this subject as there has for baseball, but there is some and I would not be surprised if 10 years from now we have pitch limits for youth fastpitch. As a parent, I monitor pitch counts and have discussed (somewhat flexible) limits with my daughter's coach based on discussions with her (a pitcher herself), my daughter's pitching coach, and the research I have seen. I have seen tons of coaches overpitching their aces though. Its all about the Ws for a lot of coaches. Read this as just one example of some of the research that is out there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8645320/

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Sorry, I know you were asking the A level coach--I am not a coach at all but a parent of a pitcher. [/quote]

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