My daughter finally got to pitch on her school softball team. She played her first season of rec softball 2 summers ago and just took up pitching last summer. Earlier this year, she began taking private pitching lessons. She has improved so much in such a short time (especially considering most of the other players on her team have been playing since they were very young)! Her coach finally decided to watch her pitch again in practice and was really impressed with her improvement even from the beginning of the season. He let her pitch, first, in a scrimmage against the 8th graders - which they won by a lot, btw. Here is a picture of her in action during that:
Then, the next game, he let her pitch a couple of innings and she did really well! She made a couple of really good plays after the pitch by snagging the ball and getting it to 1st for what would have been an out (both times!) had the girl at 1st caught the ball. The coach had switched some players around and the girl usually on 1st was not on - she would have definitely caught them both. They were literally right to her. Here is a video of one of those plays:
Watch it in HD here.
And a few pics from throughout the season:
She is still taking private lessons every week and is continuing to improve! She will be playing on a league this summer that is somewhere between the skill levels of rec and travel and hopefully will play travel soon!
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