Why does your DD play fastpitch?

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1. Most rec ball is just horrible.
2. For the competition.
3. Meet new friends.
4. The travel.
5. The uniform colors (when she was younger,lol).
6. Get that college scholarship.

Very happy that our girl wanted to play travelball and will miss it down the road when she and our youngest daughter is done.

 

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It's cheaper than equestrian.

 

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She plays for the love of the game, the competition, and the friendships. This will be her first full year of travel but has played fastpitch for 3 yrs. and did coach pitch slowpitch for a couple years prior. She's a '00 12u pitcher.

 

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Because I couldn't stand s o c c e r.

 

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My DD started at age 8 and was not a stand out in rec ball, barely got the two innings she was garanteed, and could not even hit the ball in coach pitch. At age 10 she moved up to rec fast pitch. Still geting min playing time and definitely not hitting the ball. After the season was over she found out a friend was trying out for a travel team in Ohio and wanted to tryout too, so we went. Very poor turnout but I told my wife there is no way she will ever be picked up and even felt bad for setting her up for failure. After tryout, coach made her an offer, because she was coachable (?!) - not because they only had enough showup to make a team. Started practicing that fall, with one tournament still could not hit, so we started taking her to pitching lesson thinking if she new what was coming she might be able to hit it. She loved pitching and the season started still not hitting, fielding was so-so and not pitching until one pitcher quit, another hurt, and team left with one pitcher, so coach ask if she wanted to try it in a game. She did and pitched rest of year till she also was injured.
First year of 12u she split pitching time with 1 other girl, her hitting got a little better but still needed work. Did I mention still not a stand out? Last year changed org and she was ligit # 1 pitcher hitting still not great but better. Present, she is now with what I think is one of the better orgs in Ohio as a pitcher, hitting still needs improvement but if you ask her why she plays ball she will tell you its a challenge.

 

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My youngest dd hated the sport when she first played. Start at t-ball and she said she was bored. Her next year was Ponytail with the pitching machine at age 7 and still bored. At 8U, we didn't know of travel and I begged our little league for her to move up to minors and not play another year of ponytail. They said no do to safety concerns and that year she started bombing the balls into the other little league fields while those games were going on. She started pitching and then the love of the sport took off.

I just asked her, and she said I just fell in love with it.

 

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My dd played rec ball for 4 years. She always wanted to play year round but with rec that just isn't an option. She just tried out for travel and was offered a spot....she is 8 and on a 10u....we are so excited!!!

 

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It's cheaper than equestrian.

This is so true. I have one DD that shows horses. I will spend more in one year for her horse showing than I will for my other DD to play 3 years in travel softball. Very happy that my youngest DD loves softball so much!

I did ask her why she likes to play softball. She looked at me like I had just asked her the worlds dumbest question. lol

 

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It all started when I was dragging fields at a slow pitch tournament. The coach of the 10U team that won it asked me what my dd's were doing in the fall. They had a 10u fall league that was using a pitching machine. My dd's were 9 and 7, they played and loved it. When the older dd was going to play for the middle school team (7th grade) it was very competitive and a group of girls who's dads ran the organization were taking them onto a travel team. We looked for a different team and ended up with a perfect coach. He worked with my dd and helped her tremendously with her pitching. We found a team for the younger dd and they have loved to play ever since. Now they are both playing in college and I can't wait for the fall ball games to start. Long story short....because they love it.

 

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Because I couldn't stand s o c c e r.

Musty, I can't imagine how much fuss you would be raising on a socquer forum... you'd be known as Crusty over "there"... if "there" exists. If it does, sign up so I can be a helicopter viewer and watch you blast back and forth. Maybe grab Lenski and you guys can put the smack down on some caddy socquer folks. :cap::lmao:;&:cap:


Is it wrong to "like" all of the posts on this topic. Love hearing why people joined this highly addictive sport.

For the record, I got smiley happy...for the record, you are capped at 8 smiley's in one post. Learn something new everyday.

 

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To be honest I can't remember a time when one of my kids were not playing ball My DD started T-Ball at 5 and has been playing ever since.

DD has two older brothers and one younger...being the only girl she was going to play the same sports as her brothers..only BETTER...lol

Played her first fastpitch game as a 7 year old going up against a 12 year old pitcher..my first thought as a Mom was no way your putting my baby up against a 12 year old throwing a ball at my daughter. Well this Mom sure did not know best..the first word out of my DD mouth after the game was "WOW I love this game." She has loved it ever since.

Fastforward a few years and she was the only freshman to make the HS Varsity team..and earned her first HS Varisty letter. She plans to play college ball...just because she loves the game.

So in answer to the question...I asked my DD and I think her answer was perfect..all she said was "how can you not LOVE the game!"