Your Daughter’s Showcase Tournament Isn’t Showing College Coaches What You Think It Is Let’s be honest about something that makes a lot of parents in New England travel softball uncomfortable: the showcase tournament system is…
Most travel ball parents in New England are spending more money than ever on off-season training. And most of it is making their daughters worse. Let that land for a second. I see it every…
I watched a player at a tournament in Kingston, MA last spring tear the cover off the ball in BP. Loud. Line drives everywhere. Then in the game? She couldn’t get her bat on a…
Let me ask you something. When was the last time your travel ball program ran a full catching-specific practice? Not a 10-minute drill at the end of warm-ups. A real, structured, intentional session on what…
Here’s what’s actually happening on youth softball fields right now, and most New England parents haven’t noticed it yet. Pixellot processed 1.5 million games in 2025. GameChanger’s AI cameras are rolling out to recreational baseball…
The windmill pitch is not safe. Not “dangerous like a car crash” — but not the benign, natural motion that coaches have been selling for decades either. The research on this has been piling up…
Coaches are using AI to build lineups now. You’ve probably seen it — apps that analyze stats, suggest batting orders, optimize defensive assignments based on exit velocity and launch angle. Some of it is genuinely…
If you’ve been in travel softball for any length of time, you’ve watched it happen. A girl plays with a program for two years, develops real skills, builds something with her teammates — and then…
We learned this the hard way. We’re sharing it so you don’t have to. For ten years, Diamond Softball Club ran one of the most respected travel softball programs in Connecticut. At our peak, we…
This is the conversation nobody in travel softball wants to have. We’re having it anyway. Your daughter is on a travel team. She practices twice a week. She plays in tournaments most weekends from March…