by jofus » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:22 pm
Ah, pretty close to me. I'm in southern West Virginia (actually southeastern, not true southern, which is the "coalfields").
My DD's travel team from last year is disbanded for at least the high school season, since almost all of her teammates are playing high school ball, and we're gonna have to replace a few from last year to even field a team for the summer, so I've been trying to look around the area to see if there are any other options nearby. I'm afraid the team won't even get going again, although the main coach (who I tried to help some last year) told me "we're definitely going to do "something" after their season). One of his favorite girls is too old to play 14U this year, so I'm afraid he will try to move up to 16U, and my DD is a 12 year old this year (turns 13 in Feb, '95 birthday), so she doesn't really want to play 16U (although I think she would do OK, if not great, with that jump).
I talked to a couple dads/coaches at the UVA softball camp a few weeks ago that really talked up the softball nation organization, but it seems to be pretty much Richmond and east, which is a little too far for us. It looks like there are some teams in the Roanoke area, but that's a little over 2 hours away, which would make it hard for us to think about while school is going on.
I was just mainly interested since most softball stuff you see online is from people in california and to a lesser degree Texas, it seems.
Proud fastpitch, baseball, volleyball, soccer, basketball, etc. Dad