by doitallmom41 » Fri May 13, 2016 11:45 am
Well, here are my thoughts on this issue. We have been in rec ball for 9 seasons now. Our rec league was a total joke this year. The rules of the game kept changing game to game. The umpires were so old they couldn't tell a strike from a ball. And most of the board members didn't even have girls on the teams! They were all on Travel Ball teams! Those members poached all of the good players to start their own travel teams. One of which I have heard has already failed!
My daughter is a pitcher for 4yrs now and because we don't have great coaches, she isn't getting the coaching needed to better her skills for high school. Her pitching coach has been trying for two years to get us to join a travel ball team. And after all the chaos in our league, we are jumping ship!
Now, we aren't trying to start a team as was mentioned earlier. We are just trying to get our daughter on a team so she can have the higher level experience, higher level coaching and hopefully will be on the high school teams in a couple of years. We don't have stars in our eyes..we aren't banking on a scholarship for college. Our daughter wants to play, she wants to pitch and she wants to learn and have fun.
Hopefully, this will help answer the question in a different direction!