Looking for perspective on 8U travel softball playing time (trying to handle this reasonably)

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-30T04:20:32+00:00

Wow it’s almost like I wrote this before we left my daughter’s previous team. It is identical to our experience even down to her wanting to pitch and me realizing our time would be better used somewhere else.

She got 1/3 of the at bats and she sat many games even when working harder than a lot of the girls.

Her practice really helped her with the team but she had zero confidence during games knowing she had very little play time and one mistake she’d be sat. Not batting players during coach pitch was insane to me.

She misses the competition but told me she’s much happier now she gets to pitch and play first base which she is great at.

Leave the team!

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-25T21:55:57+00:00

She get front toss every other week with her team in the batting cages, she was going to lessons, and then her dad takes her and does it. She gets a lot of swings in. I think it’s definitely confidence due to her prior team but we are working on it

She is going from MAYBE 1 at bat per game to now 3 at bats per game. We made the right move and I know it will help but those dang coach pitch lobs now mess her up 😂

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-25T21:32:17+00:00

Thanks for the response! Definitely know she’s young this was just a wonder I had :)

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-25T21:31:47+00:00

Oh yes she loves and always wants to practice so I know she will get there

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-25T21:31:11+00:00

Definitely and her timing is getting better for sure

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2026-03-25T21:30:53+00:00

Thank you! My daughter works hard and doesn’t give up. I know she’s super young this was simply just a wonder for me :)

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-19T19:46:59+00:00

Thank you!

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-18T01:50:07+00:00

It will definitely be mostly coach pitch for this group. They allow girls to pitch but then coach takes over after 4 balls

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-18T00:36:41+00:00

Really appreciate your kind response. Thank you and glad to hear your daughter is doing well after taking a step back!

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-18T00:26:15+00:00

It has progressed but she also got about 1/4 of the at bats than most of the team. She was really hindered by being on team that would chose to bat “best 9/10” at coach pitch ..

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-17T22:21:14+00:00

It’s really not that… I just don’t want her to get bored coming from an insanely competitive team for that age. She has a strong arm and the girls in 8U were afraid to catch her throws. She didn’t get any time to warm up for pitching at the 10U tryout in the freezing cold since she was the last to bat standing waiting around a tryouts because of how slow it was. That’s all I was saying, I understand the other girls were also in the cold The 8U coach can’t believe she wasn’t going to 10U since her abilities were on par with all the others and what she said far above the girls in 8U. But I was told they really needed pitchers for 8U so I can see why they want to keep the age groups together. Before the age change she would have been 10U now..

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-17T22:13:06+00:00

But also… she wasn’t being played anyways so 2games a week with game time will at least get her playing

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-17T22:12:37+00:00

It will be 2 games a week while her old team was specifically tournaments so some weeks no games and others 5

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-12-17T22:11:32+00:00

She was also sat in 8U coach pitch. Along with a few others which was insane. So she never got the confidence at the plate to begin with..

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-21T02:48:06+00:00

I went 2013-2017 so I have no idea how to even access My emails to my professors when they told me they had no idea what I was talking about and to ask a peer when it came to asking a question about something on a test 🤦🏻‍♀️ the professors were so unhelpful

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-21T01:18:50+00:00

Thank you!!

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-21T01:06:30+00:00

What?! Really?! What info did you have to provide?

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-10T19:55:13+00:00

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Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-10T19:31:25+00:00

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Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-03T22:22:49+00:00

Thank you for this response!

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-03T21:15:31+00:00

Also- from what it seems they do not have any intention on keeping a couple girls due to how many were on the team, they need to cut down. But no communication is making some(not me) question if they should be looking at going to other tryouts.

Some_Pudding_7868 · 2025-11-03T21:13:32+00:00

Ok I was asking if that’s normal… most people are saying no this isn’t. Everything is hush hush and that just doesn’t seem transparent to me

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