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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love all the people recommending softball when OP specifically said that wasn't what her daughter enjoyed.

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I actually came on here to beg people NOT to recommend softball. Its a really complex sport and we are SO tired of new girls joining who have never watched a baseball game in their life and are terrified the ball might actually be hit or thrown to them. Please God no. [/quote]

Softball coach here, we're always happy to get new players and take pride in getting them quickly up to speed. If you get a coach like this guy don't give up, find a better league.[/quote]
+1. I recommended softball on this thread from experience. I also help run our league. We [b]pride[/b] ourselves on welcoming new players at all age levels.

I have a softball pitcher and she's legitimately all-star good. She's also not naturally athletic...at all. She just works hard. She started at 8 when she was OP's kids age, but plays with girls who are new to the sport. We expect with the level of coaching our league provides new girls will be fully caught up in a year and able to play on their HS JV teams if they stick with it (varsity in this area of course typically requires you to be a B level travel player, but that's a whole other story).

PP is wrong that no amount practice being able to make you catch a softball. My pitcher used to look terrible trying to catch. Then she started learning to pitch and DH said to her probably 100 times "Half of pitching is catching the ball" as he threw it back to her from the bucket where he was sitting. She's not making diving grabs in the outfield or anything, but she can definitely catch a softball and her coaches have no problem putting her in prime positions to do so. It just takes hours of repetition.

Is DD pitching for the Sooners some day? No. But she's helping her team win regularly. When friends noticed her transition from scrub player to decent pitcher, many came forward with stories of girls who simply through work and perseverance also became good pitchers, even collegiate ones (yes, back in the day when playing in college was way easier than it is today, but still).

[b]Coach PP who is grumbling about newbies, I hope you aren't coaching 12U in our league. Because your attitude gets back to us, we don't need you.[/b] Take your kid to one of the pay-to-play C level travel clubs that loses most of their games, there are a plethora and they are always looking for players.

Yes, you can complain about the parents who truly don't care and drop their kid off for 2 hours of babysitting. Those parents will never work with their kids or help their coach prep a field or run GameChanger; they might not even watch games. But just unathletic kids who are trying? Those kids deserve MORE of your coaching because having them learn things will make your whole team better rapidly. Some of the newbies I've seen at 10, 11, and even 12 are now far better than the kids who played for years and thought they "had" to go travel to get away from newbies.[/quote]

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