Well, I have read all the post, and sat and thought for a while about what I should type.
First, Like most, I like to watch my DD play!!! However, in my 6 hours on Sunday, I spent a lot of time talking to College Coaches, and they ALL said this is what they want to see, "How does your DD do without you sitting along the fence or behind the backstop?" Well my DD did just that. She played and I watched other games on the field.
My DD was picked up by a team that had someone unable to attend. So she got an extra field game and an extra cage game. I saw her leave my truck at 7:30am Sunday morning, she stopped by our camp area at 9:52am, left at 9:55am after getting a water and a quick snack, played at 11, and noon on the field, cage at 1pm, and came back for a 2 hour break then back in the cage at 4pm.
That was after playing two cage games Saturday night, and one cage game Sunday morning.Total of 7 games on the weekend.
She (Kristin Staley-Buckeye Heat '96-Lee) did get an MVP for going 6 for 6 in Cage on Game 2 Saturday night. she had a blast, and really enjoyed meeting the other girls, and the coaches were awesome!!! (According to her)
So I thought about some of the post about cost per bat...Lets see, if you attended the OSU Winter Camp you would spend $75 for 2.5 hours. Maybe see 3 additional coaches, and lets face it, unless you are a 100% stud from Ohio, you wont be going to OSU.
The amount of college coaches that attended the QDS-North, and the games that were played, the information that was given to us, the letter writing process, the 14 page list of college coaches emails, to me were well worth the $275 bucks. We spent more than that attending other camps that were for that college ONLY... getting to play in front of 100+ college coaches priceless.
Not to mention when seeing consistent pitchers 58-63 mph, then coming home and watching the all star games in Fla, and Jennie Ritter saying that the pitchers in that game of All-Stars that were college bound, were "Popping" the glove at 55mph. Makes you really wonder were we facing college bound pitchers too?
Lastly,
I know that playing indoor fields only having 2 fields to play on is rough, When we went to QDS-South to watch this past Sept, it was much easier playing games on 4 regular fields, more game time, 4 games going on all day at the same time. It is what it is folks, 322 of the top rated softball players from 35 states... We were with the best all weekend.
JMHO