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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son is a good baseball player, but not a recruited athlete. He has been doing the fall baseball workouts at DeMatha, and the coach who is handling the younger guys has been a jerk to my kid. Any insight or experience with this? We did touch base with one friend whose son had a similar experience as a freshman, but we don’t know many families there and have been told the head coach “doesn’t like emails/calls from parents”.

Our son has loved baseball since he was 5, very dedicated, worked hard to come out of injury and now he is saying he may give it all up and is miserable. I don’t know if this is the jr coach trying to weed people out, but it does seem targeted towards my kid.

Thanks for any experience or suggestions for this program![/quote]

What is "being a jerk to my kid"?

Not trying to be a jerk myself, and not to point fingers, but having been through a lot of this as a former player, current coach, and sports parent a lot of the "Coach HATES ME" stuff is a kid being held to the standards of the team. If you're a random kid going to workouts and you're making the coach's life/job harder then don't expect any gentleness. If you can't do the drills, follow instruction, follow rules, etc then expect to be treated curtly.

Sounds like your kid isn't a fit for the team, rightly or wrongly. Seems like the kid needs to toughen up to mesh with the culture of the program. DeMatha baseball isn't a joke (regardless of anyone's personal opinions on how good they are or aren't). If your kid can't handle the coach now then it's probably a weed out thing.

Tell your kid to out hustle everyone, be on time, stay late, clean up, be a model baseball player and convince the coach that they are there and good.[/quote]

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