High School Softball

[DDsNbr1Fan]

Our coach has travel experiance and played with the one of the top organizations in So Cal, if you don't have the players that can compete, the coach can only do so much.

Agreed. A good coach without the horses will have a tough time. My question is to HS coaches that have at least 30% or more of the squad that are TB players.

[Sftbll4ever]

Our coach has travel experiance and played with the one of the top organizations in So Cal, if you don't have the players that can compete, the coach can only do so much.

Agreed. A good coach without the horses will have a tough time. My question is to HS coaches that have at least 30% or more of the squad that are TB players.

Well a girl can dream, huh!!! Wait, next year we get to add at least 2 more TB players to varsity.

WWWWOOOOOOO WWWWWHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO

[SBGeneral]

DD & her best friend will go to the same HS. Our HS coach is arguable the best HS coach in our area & boast one of the best records in our state for the past 15 years. Players are moving in just to play for this lady all the time. Both girls & myself had nothing but the utmost respect for the HS coach & program. DD & her best friend have dreamed of playing for this school for years.

DD’s friend is an outstanding mid IF, batted .400 last season in travel & has one of the oddest batting stances & routines I have ever seen. Matter of fact I have only seen 1 other player ever bat like this. Now as a freshman she earned a starting position on the varsity team. Less than a weeks into the season she was turned into a slapper (without any instruction) & is now batting about .150 & fighting to stay in the starting rotation. Why you ask? Coach say it looks stupid, no need to bat like that.

We also received a not mandatory but “strongly suggested” summer schedule of 7 tournaments for the HS team during the heart of travel ball season, after school is out, to so call prepare them for District & State the following year. Coach also thinks HS ball is the end all determining factor to get to the next level.

DD will be a freshman next year & having a hard time with this decision. Not play travel ball for the next 2 years just to play for her HS. Or, play HS ball & miss out on Travel ball. From watching what has went on with her friend this year DD & my self don’t know what we should do. No rules are being broken (i have did hours of research & talked to many people) & the AD is in the back pocket of the coach, so there is no chance of getting things changed.


So people it could be worst. Find the bright side of you situation... (im still looking for one) If your DD is a travel ball player that doesn’t like HS ball, not playing varsity when she should or your coach is just a moron....suck it up, its only a few months & they can go back to travel ball when its over.

[pitchslap]

After sharing my whole enlightening experience, DD just got called up to Varsity. NOW WHAT?!!

[slim00]

SBGeneral, it sounds like your DD goes to the same school as my DD. Coach is a former D1 player, extremely knowledgable. But coach is an extreme control freak, no lessons or TB. You don't need anything but me type attitude. Coach can teach everything needed by any position player and is the only real path to a college scholarship. Coach points to past success as proof of ability when in fact the coach rode an extremely talented pitcher. First year after pitcher graduated things didn't go so well and all but the kool-ade parents began to see coach's true colors. It wasn't pretty.

[DonnieS]

>> So people it could be worst.<<

SBGeneral - thanks for your post.

[Lannie]

Let me ask this of any HS coaches that have a crappy W/L record reading this...why don't you avail yourself to more and better training techniques, attend a coaches clinic that includes updated information on how the game is evolving, attend a few TB games and learn by watching and ask questions, most of you are teachers..research and teach the game properly, educate yourselves on the game or let someone else take the job! And don't tell me you don't have enough time to do all of this...TB coaches have real jobs as well and most seem to have the time to get better at the game.

Sounds like you are describing my DD's HS coach. He told the girls earlier this year that he is a coach and not a teacher?????????? He thinks that travel ball is a joke and that the softball season is over when HS season is over. He uses outdated coaching techniques and doesnt understand that the majority of travel ball kids are students of the game and are extremely smart when it comes to this game. He thinks that a pitching machine is all that is needed to prepare for the season. I have yet to see a batting T, soft toss drills or any drill that you see going on at tournaments between games. He thinks that berating the girls will build character. He embarasesses at least one girl a game by screaming at them or following them into the dugout yeling at them. It reminds you of Sargent Carter and Gomer Pyle. And before someone says why stay....... We are transferring her to a new school next year.

[Spectator]

My freshman DD's experience with HS ball is as follows: After playing t-ball, league, then moving to travel at 9 years old, she's seen it all. Tries out for the HS team, makes the varsity squad -entire team consists of 15 players (4 of which are TB players-3 of those freshman). Anyway, after first few practices DD realizes this is a joke, just for fun, time to party-comes home saying practices are "pointless" and "boring". After first game-says games lack intensity, pressure, produce no real reason to fully apply herself. Wants to quit - we talk her into staying the remainder of the season (8 weeks) and maybe things will get better. After a couple of weeks it is evident coach has picked her favorites, and it really doesn't hurt the win/loss record because we are a 1A school in rural area. Record is now 10-0 against weak teams we've beat 10-0, run ruled, several errors, etc., but we still win. We and DD are both happy with her playing time, not like she's missing anything either way. Anyway, jealous drama starts, parents bicker and bad mouth coach behind her back, love her to her face, coach talks about players and parents to other parents, girls back stab each other, so on and so on. Finally we face a good non-district team which she knows will beat us-so she starts off with DD pitching (this has only happened against 1 of the 10 teams we have already faced). First two batters - base on errors, hit, error, so on and so on. Our team doesn't hit, short story-we loose 11-2, and daughter takes only loss so far, so that the favored pitcher doesn't get the loss. Next night is the BIG district game that we again are sure to loose, but thankfully she has saved the "Best-Strongest" pitcher for that. Needless to say-she finally pulled that pitcher in the 6th inning after we were down 11-0. I hate it for that pitcher-good pitcher-bad attitude-bad mouthing parents-and the coach's little plan exploded in her face. Needless to say this coach has 5-6 more games to play that DD will not attend. Learned the hard way, and won't go back until this coach leaves. Just no comparison to TB at all!!

[DDsNbr1Fan]

Let me ask this of any HS coaches that have a crappy W/L record reading this...why don't you avail yourself to more and better training techniques, attend a coaches clinic that includes updated information on how the game is evolving, attend a few TB games and learn by watching and ask questions, most of you are teachers..research and teach the game properly, educate yourselves on the game or let someone else take the job! And don't tell me you don't have enough time to do all of this...TB coaches have real jobs as well and most seem to have the time to get better at the game.

Where are all the HS coaches to answer this question? Maybe they don't know about informative websites like this? Or are the too busy watching WWF for softball tips. Be afraid...very afraid!