Danielle

Mom of 2 crazy kids, book lover, tennis player, coffee and wine drinker! Southern girl transplanted to the cold North.

[The Divided States Of America @TheDividedStat3]

Who else feels the same way?

[Danielle @cornflakegurl]

G was awarded Outstanding Marcher at Band Awards! 🎼🎺

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

Any parent or coach that does this belongs in jail.

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

You grow up thinking your mom cooking for you every day is normal, until you’re older and realize how much love and effort went into something you barely noticed.

[The Hype Mom @softballhype]

Moms and dads… I can tell when it’s you posting on your daughter’s account. 👀 Which means so can coaches.

Especially when one post sounds like a teenager and the next sounds like her mom wrote a press release. Taking turns is giving y’all away. And trying to use her slang? Somehow makes it MORE obvious. 😂

Stop. Let her do this. Social media is already her thing!

Help her proofread. Remind her to update her schedule. Take the videos. Then let HER find the words and hit post.

Her account. Her voice. Her recruiting. She needs practice representing herself, and that starts with letting her.

Love you. Mean it. Don’t be cringe. 🫶

[Fact @Fact]

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. - J.K. Rowling

[Shannon @gardengirl125]

Menopause has taught me that calories no longer have to be consumed. Apparently eye contact is enough 😭

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Gen X and older millennials will forever turn their entire body to back up instead of using the camera because we got our license in the 1900’s.

[Happiluv @Happiluv6]

Retirement age should be 50.

People deserve time to live,
not just work until they're
too tired to enjoy it.

[Michael McKeown @RollColls]

If someone advises you to play 1 sport in High School they don’t have your best interest at heart!

Yes I said it

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

Hang around two lazy people, you’ll become the third.

Hang around two cheaters, you’ll become the third.

Hang around two dropouts, you’ll become the third.

Hang around two CHAMPIONS, you’ll become the third.

Moral of the story?… Your circle matters!

~ via @CoachKurtHines

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

Watching opposing parents during summer travel baseball, I’ve always noticed lots of parents are more emotionally invested in the wins and losses than the players themselves.

Let that sink in.

[Mia Morera @MiaMorera2]

Softball is a game of failure. And what doesn’t show in the box score… Is sometimes you catch barrels and don’t get the results… But as in life you keep swinging!

[Danielle @cornflakegurl]

What a confidence building weekend! The road back from ACL recovery hasn’t been easy, but she is determined and getting back to herself!

[Gianna @GiannaColonna4]

Great weekend with @Racers09sftbll. Made it to the championship but it got rained out. I batted a .545 on the weekend, and made some plays in the field. Love this group of girls and can’t wait for the rest of the year! 🏎️💨🥎
@BMHSTitanSB

[Chris Olsen @RebelsOlsen]

This may be a wildly controversial post...

Softball has always been a beautiful game because there has never been just one way to dominate.

You could beat people with speed.
You could beat people with defense.
You could beat people with pitching.
You could beat people with situational hitting.
You could beat people with toughness and IQ.

Yet somewhere along the way, we've started acting like the only thing that matters is how many balls leave the yard.

Home runs are exciting. They should be celebrated.

But when accolades, rankings, and recognition become disproportionately tied to one statistic, we risk losing sight of what actually wins softball games.

The kid hitting .500, maybe all singles, matters...

The shortstop making plays and turning hits into outs matters.

The slapper creating chaos every at-bat matters.

The pitcher producing outs, not strikeouts, matters.

The athlete moving runners, taking extra bases, and doing all the little things that never make it into social media graphics... they matter!

A game built on speed, athleticism, pressure, execution, and teamwork is slowly being reduced to a home run derby.

And maybe it's time to have an honest conversation about the ball itself.

When offense becomes so dominant that pitchers and defenses are increasingly marginalized, the balance of the game starts to disappear. Maybe it's time to nerf the ball a bit and bring the game back to what made it great in the first place, a game where pitching matters, defense matters, speed matters, and every run has to be earned.

The best players are not always the ones hitting the most bombs.

Often, they're the ones most indirectly impacting winning.

Let's be careful not to reward one skill so heavily that we forget to recognize what made this game in the first place... the complete softball player.

[Danielle @cornflakegurl]

Yes!!!!

[Berea-Midpark Softball @BMHSTitanSB]

🚨 TITANS WIN SWC TITLE🚨

Avery James drove in 4 runs and crushed an inside-the-park HR as Berea-Midpark rolled past Olmsted Falls 16-2! 💥

🔥 Avery James: 3 hits, 4 RBI
🔥 Lauren Fayne: 11 Ks + HR
🔥 Titans offense: 14 hits

[Danielle @cornflakegurl]

Haha!!!

[Spill The Memes @SpillTheMemes]

😂

[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

If you think the coach is the problem, and the last coach was the problem, and the coach before that was the problem... you might be the problem.

[Berea-Midpark Softball @BMHSTitanSB]

Titans win on senior day!

Avery James was 🔥 driving in FIVE runs on 3 hits to lead the Titans to a 10-0 win over North Olmsted! 💪

Lauren Fayne dominated in the circle with 10 Ks, 2 hits, 0 runs in 5 innings 👏