Just to backtrack a bit on the we have all been there as a rec coach topic. I started in rec with my DD when she was a 2nd year 10U player and I being the obsessive compulsive control freak that I lean towards had to be the head coach. During our first practice I had the girls just hit off a tee to the infielders(hitting a throw ball was to infrequent at the time) anyway a girl who obviously never played before or got out of the house much was batting, she hits a slow roller somewhere, takes off for 1st, makes about three strides, her feet get tangles up, she falls, starts bawling and goes home. This in in the first twenty minutes of her first practice. I think she's done, won't be back. Wrong! As it turned out she was one of the most improved players over one season I've ever coached in 11 years of coaching softball. Her Dad was also the guy that gave me one of the best softball quotes ever. One day when I got to the field he was sitting in his lawn chair, down 3rd baseline with family in tow, I asked him how he was doing and he said,"We are outdoors, playing the greatest game in the world, in the greatest country in the world." Amen brother.