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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do coaches lie to girls and parents?[/quote]

They are like used car salesmen. They don’t know how to tell the truth.[/quote]

Parents also have selective hearing when it comes to their kids.[/quote]

OP here. 95% of parents either don’t see their kids’s weaknesses or flaws or downplay them. Most overestimate their kids’ abilities.

Wherever possible, find a team where the coach doesn’t have a kid on it. But they are hard to find, especially at the younger ages (10, 12)[/quote]

I want to ask about the having no kid on the team. I’ve seen some of this and the coaches seem to be 45+ and have coached a lot. Now, we are starting to see a slightly different model where these organizations bring in young 20-something women who played in college. Not to refute your advice, but while the former might be better than a parent coach, I don’t think the latter is. These young women don’t seem to have coached before. And I predict will have a lot of turnover. Other sports follow that model of young former college players as coaches and it is rife with issues. [/quote]

OP here. Your point is valid, but I also think there is tremendous value in having women on the coaching staff in some way.  Young college veterans can be great and are more relatable to the girls. But you are correct that just being a young woman who played in college doesn’t make you a good coach. Especially if your own coaches growing up tried to coach girls like boys.

There’s an old saying: Boys feel good after they play well. Girls have to feel good to play well. There’s a fine line between teaching toughness and learning to play hard and shutting them down with excess negativity.[/quote]

My girls love going to clinics and lessons with those young college veterans. But I think people are seeing them as a solution to daddy ball — and I think just like any coach, it really depends. We had a horrible experience with young college veteran coaching lacrosse. Just pop over to the lax forum and you can read the issues folks have had, including lots of turnover and preference to kids whose parents pay for private lessons on the side. I think some softball organizations are way over selling it and are going to get burned.  I think their success rate in terms of kid satisfaction and game outcomes will be no better than with parent coaches. [/quote]

I am not going to give you an argument. I do think veteran players &gt; parent coaches in general because it's the rare parent who knows what they're doing. And it's even rarer still to find a dad who played fastpitch -- and the dads who played baseball often don't grasp the nuances with softball.

The best coaches have had training. And are experienced in COACHING.

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