NFHS Girls softball

[Mountaincoach]

Originally Posted by ASA/NYSSOBLUE

Be sure that you enforce it too - if the defensive team is slow coming out, or if the catcher had up/on base, and no one comes out to warm up the pitcher, don't enable it, and when the catcher finally does come out, tell her, "second one goes down/third one goes down", etc. This happens more with the lower levels, where you get more inexperienced players/coaches. You also have to make sure you are nor going off to talk to your partner or something, showing YOU are ready.

If you are lucky, you will have a team or teams where the kids play travel ball, and after the 1st, the catcher and pitcher will only take three, and keep the game moving.

I agree with both points. Travel ball kids are used to working in time constraints, and they won't dilly dally. If the coaching staff is too lazy to warm up the pitcher in that situation, don't reward them by dragging it out.