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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no point for C level kids to be on a travel team. It's just a money grab. C level kids should be playing rec. I personally would not waste money on private lessons for a C level 13 year old. [/quote]

Y'all need to stop denigrating C level teams.  Yes, some may be glorified rec teams.  Most are not.  There are unlikely to be new players on a travel team; most of the girls will have played for years.  They'll make most catches, they'll know how to bunt and where they're supposed to be on the field based on game play.  Some, like DDs team last year, are playing C because they lack any good pitchers and it's really hard to win at B without at least one good pitcher.  Some are outstanding teams (I have no idea how some of the teams at the East Coast C Championships could be classified as C teams.)  It is absolutely worth taking private lessons if you want to improve at that level.

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I don't buy it. What B-level non-pitcher is going to stay on a C team with no solid pitchers? Those girls should all go find B teams if their hitting and fielding is at the B level.

Also for those who keep saying C teams are so great, I have seen C teams have a crazy strong record -- like 40 and 2 for the Spring with several of those wins being blowouts and then they move up to B and get absolutely crushed. If your kid is playing C, you don't realize how much higher the level of play can be in B. [/quote]

In fact I do.. kid has played both. Usually they play the off-years (11U, for instance) as C and top years as B, and they do fine.  But these 40-2 C teams...you're suggesting those girls stay in rec?

DD had rec practice last night.  Two girls are new to softball, one has literally never played before.  Which is great, that's the purpose of rec.  In their end-of-practice scrimmage the first batter hit a ground ball to 2nd-- 2nd baseman overthrows first by a mile and the base runner gets to third.  First baseman way overthrows 3rd...allowing the runner to go home.  That doesn't happen on C level teams (someone will say they saw something like that one time at one tournament, but it really doesn't happen.) BIG errors happen a lot in rec.  For those who have rec teams that are basically travel teams, that's awesome.  But most aren't like that, and we've been in this world for a long time.

Either way -- a kid on a C team who wants and can afford private lessons should absolutely do them.

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