I remember it like it was yesterday and it was 6 years ago now lol, she was in waaaaaaaaaaay over her head. I dragged her to this tryout and the pitching machine was throwing 10x faster then anything she had ever even seen lol, I gave her an out and said you know you dont have to do this but she said I want to see if I can hit it, last ball she made contact:lmao: She had thrown an 11" ball from 35' away in her rec league but at 12U it was 40' and 12" and I was unaware of that :lmao:, they had a radar gun, again I gave her an out and said well next time we will know to practice with a 12" ball from 40' but we can leave if you want and she said nah, I want to see how fast I pitch. One of the proudest days of my life, she had no chance to make the team, she knew it, I knew it the people running the tryout knew it, but she just kept trying.
We took her to rec ball teams tryouts later in the year, they played a few travel tourneys, she made that team. She worked hard and the next year we took her back to the tryouts in which she was in over her head and she didnt make it halfway through the tryout before they offered her a spot on the team.
Those first tryouts I look back on so fondly and how impressed I was with my DD the person.