@RebelsOlsen And sometimes even that doesnโt matter because people just up lies and no bothers to do any actual digging. A good option may be to take all the coaches out of it, rely on the stats, compare against the other teams stats via AI and have AI generate the lists. Unbiased that way.
@TFan1960@Jason55692414 I can promise that in NO WAY was Allyssa Parker lazy. I know her and that is 1000% not in her DNA. And I am going to bet that the rest are not either. But you just keep typing away on your keyboard.
Players, you need to hear this. Itโs what your coaches want you to know when it's all said and done.
Softball is a cruel teacher.
It will hand you the greatest feeling of your life, then snatch it back before you can hold onto it. A walk-off. A perfect game. A moment where the ball meets the bat and you just know. We let those moments go too soon, traded in the second something goes wrong.
But the lows donโt ask permission. They follow you to the car ride home, to the silence at dinner, to the replay that wonโt stop running in your head at 2 a.m. Youโll carry an error longer than you should. Youโll lie awake after a strikeout that didnโt even matter in the final score. Youโll question whether youโre good enough, whether you belong, whether any of it is worth it.
It is. Stay with me.
Hereโs the truth: your strikeouts, your errors, your losses donโt define you. They just make you harder to quit on.
What defines you is what you do after. Running back to the dugout fence to cheer for your teammate when your own at-bat is still stinging. The tears on your face after a mistake, because you care that much. Putting in extra reps when no one is keeping score. Sitting when you want to be starting, trusting the process when the reward feels years away, and showing up anyway.
This game will test you in ways most people will never understand. But it gives back. Maybe not on the scoreboard, not always in a trophy or a starting spot, but in the person next to you in the dugout and in the kind of toughness that sneaks up on you one hard season at a time.
Just know: this game loves you back, even when youโre struggling to love it.
And more than anything, your coaches love you. On your worst days. After your worst games. Long after the season ends.
Being you is enough. Failures and all.
Ladies, carry this with you: your coaches will always be your biggest fans, even when weโre no longer coaching you.
Freshman of the Week: Madison Hoffman, Oklahoma State
The redshirt freshman put on a career-best performance in week 13, hitting three home runs and a triple with seven RBIs and four runs scored.
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