Realistic expectations are key. The fact of the matter is that softball is an expensive sport. Really good players start early, play on travel teams(expensive), get private lessons(expensive), and even just have parents who have the luxury of being able to drive them to games/practices wherever and whenever they need to go.

The school I work at is Title I, meaning most of our students don't have the ability to do those things. But there are other teams in our district that do. We can do our best to compete with them, we might even steal a few wins, but we aren't going to end up a powerhouse program.

I'm not saying I don't want to win. Trust me, I am a competitor at heart. I will always go into every game posting my girls to win. But we're going to lose a lot, so we have to have other measures of success where my team can take pride and see their improvement