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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We actually went and watched two of these schools play each other. One crushed the other. She also had her first game and loved it even more. She is watching YouTube videos to try to teach herself how to pitch. A neighbor saw her in the yard and said she knows a girl who is a great pitcher and she will put me in touch with her mom. (But I think the "great pitcher" might be quite young???)[/quote]

My daughter pitched in HS.  I agree with PP that you shouldn't let her teach herself pitching, really.  If she wants to pitch, at least get her a decent HS pitcher as a coach to start.  We ended up getting coaching lessons from a college pitcher.  Be sure she ices her shoulder after games and practice sessions.  Agree with PP that you need a pitch mound, a net, and a big bucket of balls in your backyard to practice.  Mine would go out there and just pitch for an hour into the net.  In winter, she did it in the basement.  We still have two enormous Home Depot buckets of balls in our garage that I need to find a new home for.  [b]I think she took the net to college for her club team though[/b].  [/quote]

Not trying to totally derail the thread, but one of my kids has started talking about playing club in college (not on a trajectory to play in college otherwise). How did your DD end up choosing her school/club team?[/quote]

She picked the college based on academics and because she really loved the school.  Softball was really secondary.  She was a pretty mediocre player from a mediocre HS team and travel team, but enjoyed the sport.  She's at a Div 1 school and the NCAA softball team is very competitive, and the club team is very recreational.  Even for her.  They only practice like once a week and then play in 1-2 casual tournaments a semester.  She's enjoying it though.   My understanding is that some club teams are just totally walk on.  Other club teams have a couple of levels -- so, for instance, she's on another club team that has has an "A" travel team and a "B" non-travel team. They all practice together, but the travel team does a lot of out of state tournaments -- basically at least one a month where they are traveling for 2-3 day tournaments.  So I assume that at some schools, the softball club is more along that model where you have to try out to make the more competitive level of play.  [/quote]

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