Coaches wanting to play injured players?

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This past weekend a girl on our team, which is a very good catcher fractured her tailbone. The coach continously has been trying to get her to play and putting pressure on the parents. What is your take on the situation and how should the parents handle the coach? Thanks for your input.

 

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Well the most important issue here is the child and her health.Everything else is secondary.

 

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i agree

 

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Well if the coach is her father, then powerhitter should mind their own business

 

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I meen I understand everyone wants to win but at that cost of this girl getting hurt even more if she was put in a situation where she had to slide or something.I meen come on!!

 

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Well Ringer, If the girl is his daughter you would think we would be more understanding to their own child. Didn't mean to hit a nerve RINGER!!!!!

 

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uh oh.....

 

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I feel this way...true story.

Have a player that is small but a ball breaking player. Could play 5 sports at once if there we 40 hours in a day and she could physically do it.

She ran track for Middle School this spring and has had shin splint issues. well they flared up in April, May rolled around (3 weeks) and they were wtill there. I pulled her from baserunning and hitting and let her still take defense drills. X-rays were neg...I said ask for a bone scan...Sure enough, Stress Fracture. One bad base slide and softball is over.

She still is my starting starting 2nd baseman but when she is in I have to DH her. Won't take the risk.

 

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Does a tailbone ever heal? I broke mine a long time ago, and from what I can remember it never heals. It's not like there is a cast for a broken tailbone! If the father feels she can play then she plays, because I'm sure the doctor was asked before the father tried to get her to play. I cant believe this post is on here!

 

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I too broke mine and know it's not a fun rode to full freedom of pain. As for the player, she can sit till she's ready. Better get the backup player up to speed and deal with it. Gotta love injuries.

 

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i will bat for ringer here, let's just say i've been around some dads that will all but say, "deal with it and move on"..i have been guilty of saying such things to my DD..when she has an audience, out come the tears and doctor referalls..then when the dr. says, u need rest, no more softball, off comes the brace/bandage/medicine and away she goes..we know our dd..plus if this kid is a stud, he obviously needs her offense..i could see where that coach is coming from..maybe i wouldnt do the same, but i can see the motivation behind it

 

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I must admit I had my DD walking off stomach pain for 2 days that ended up being an appendix that was just short of getting really fun! Got lucky on that one... won't forget it either. Just have to be honest with the situation and do what's best for her. Lesson learned...

 

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I heard this story Saturday night, and the dd insisted on playing. When the father realized that she really couldn't play he shut her down. What more would you do powerhitter? Ask any of the coaches on my dd's team. I'd rather she try to play and have to come out cuz she couldn't. A gamer's a gamer.

 

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I have a feeling Mrs. Ringer and Mrs. Ringersmotherwhoneverknowswhatsheistalkingabout put powerhitter (whoever one-poster powerhitter is) up to this post. Powerhitter could become powerbenchwarmer this weekend.

 

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Whatever Ringer! You have to many injured players to bench anyone. Maybe you should sleep with your stealth tonight. LMAO

 

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Am I the only person who has seen a "gamer" end up out of the game forever? One of the best players our area has seen in the last 10 years - she was a "gamer" and no one tried to stop her. Coach, parents, other parents kept urging her to play because they wanted the benefits of her playing. She ended up with injuries upon injuries - new ones cropped up as she compensated for earlier ones. Everyone talked about how tough she was because she played hurt. Well, by high school, she could hardly walk and hasn't played since. And what she learned about what the adults did to her is a harder lesson than any kid needs to learn. I can't express what a loss this was for all. She loved to play until she became a workhorse. Someone needed to step in and make her sit down and heal. No lack of love from her parents, but everyone was caught up in her success and drive.

I'm not saying that this is the case at all with the girl brought up in this thread - I'm sure it's not. But people really need to pay attention and be careful with these young, still developing bodies and the effects of playing injured.

Off my soapbox now and I wish the young lady and her family the very best.

 

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Whatever Ringer! You have to many injured players to bench anyone. Maybe you should sleep with your stealth tonight. LMAO

WOW!! What a goof!

 

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I really can't believe ANYBODY putting pressure on an injured child to play. Despite our pretensions otherwise, the kids aren't getting paid millions of doillars to perform. What's the message? A parent only loves the child if she's on the ballfield?

 

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Not a good scenario, but err on the side of caution and usually Docs clear you to play when they think you can too. One slide could do more harm than two/three weeks off. No knowledge of anything else to the story, just going by our DD's broken foot and thumb.. and she is a catcher.

 

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just curious....what age group?