Rec / Travel at the same time

The pitching is too slow is a reality in some cases. How often in travel do you see pitching with a very pronounced arc? Not very often. However she is having to learn to wait wait wait UNLOAD! which is good for her.

I started to work with her on both. I overtrain her by lessening her reaction time as long as she can keep her mechanics but then at the end I give her two buckets of the wider range she will see in rec.

I certainly wouldn't keep her out of travel because of the differences between the two but it does make it difficult for her to switch back and forth.

BTW one thing about rec teams, most are community based, most of the girls are going to go to the same high school, it can be benifical to the program to have the very good travel players playing in it. They can set the tone for later on with their leadership and their play. They might even inspire some kids to get into travel, if that happens, once your dd gets to high school you will thank your lucky stars lmao. Just some food for thought

You also want to stay away from Rec. programs that lock your DD into playing a certain age, if the program is ran right, the travel players should be playing up, if they are good enough to do so.

Totally agree with Uber the Leadership quality and attitude with her Rec team have been Amazing , I am sure the Rec will come to an end in a year or two , but the smile on her face sells it for me!

I challenge all my second year players to be leaders. I have occasional talks with them about it. Then I get my first year players together and challenge them to outdo the older players.

There are many ways to try and foster leadership in the players. For some it comes naturally and for others they need a little boost. For others it never happens and that's ok.

And on that note I never cared if my daughter was a leader or not, I just didn't want her to be a follower.