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Originally posted by Dukat
On some other posts the subject of scholarships came up in response to parents pushing their girls into playing. With this same vein I have heard the arguments against girls playing slow pitch ball toward fast pitch ball. IMHO I would rather watch/coach/umpire a girlÂ’s slow pitch game than fast pitch any day and I have seen/heard many girls give the same opinion but the parents feel they must play only fast pitch or they will never got a scholarship. My take is let them play the sport they want to play or play both in different seasons and let the other take care of itself because as Mike stated in another post...There are not that many scholarships around and the odds of her getting one anyway are slim. Also this year at my daughters 14U ASA Slow Pitch Nationals tournament a few Georgia coaches told our team that Slow Pitch is coming back and taking back over as the sport of choice over fast pitch in their areas while here I have noticed a steady decline even though in Mississippi we are holding on as long as we can. Other opinions on this?
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Dukat,
I don't know the SP coaches from Georgia that you spoke with, but they MUST have been DREAMING! SP is not coming back and taking over in Georgia. Heck, the 18U SP state in Georgia was cancelled due to lack of teams, and only 6-8 teams in the other age brackets.
There are very few pockets of SP, mostly for rec, just a hand full of High Schools, and I don't know of any colleges that play SP, unless they're very small.
FP teams have mulitiplied by leaps and bounds in the past 12 years in Georgia; new parks, new leagues, new travel team organizations, etc. Many are Nationally known and Nationally ranked.
The South in general, will never go back to the SP strong hold for JO girls that was 18-20 years ago--IMHO and IM informed opionion.