Well, tonight was our first practice in T-ball. Justin is coaching Allie's team of 10 preschoolers. Thankfully there was another dad who offered to assist coaching. Practice was a new insight into my daughter. First of all, the field was muddy because of some heavy rains that we have had the past 2 days. After the ball rolled into the mud, that was it. Allie didn't want to touch the ball or get her glove dirty. She sure didn't mind jumping in it with her new tennis shoes! Peyton, one of Allie's friends, was just as hesitant about touching/catching the ball as Allie was. Next was batting. I will say, she has a great swing! She also is pretty good at fielding except for the fact that she will run across the field to get the ball way on the other side. But then again, so did all the kids. As with everything, after about 30 minutes, Allie is done. She began to pick flowers, look around and whine for "coach Justin." She wouldn't even run the bases at the end. Our practice is late and it was getting close to bedtime but she also threw in a lot of drama. For preschool t-ball first practice I have to say overall, not bad! I guess it was the great coaching :)
Ready to play!
Checking out the mud on her fingers
Carefully reaching for the ball because it is in the mud!
What a throw! She's warming up to this.
Catching the ball
Tired already!
Great little batter
A little help from 'Coach Daddy'
Great hit!
Chasing after the ball; all of them!
Yep, she's done.
2 comments:
Coaching four year old tee-ball was at lot of fun. After practicing throwing and catching for a little bit, we lined the kids up along the baselines between first and third as infielders and one at a time they came into to home plate to practice hitting while the kids in the field practiced "fielding". I use that term loosely because after a few minutes, the kids realized they were supposed to retrieve the ball, so the hitter would hit it, and they'd all run from wherever they were on the infield and converge on wherever the ball ended up. Consequently, it wasn't uncommon for the kid positioned at first to chase the ball along with everyone else out into leftfield. Or for all 9 fielders to race to the pitchers mound on a ball hit short and dogpile there to get it. It wasn't exactly fielding, but the kids loved it so I kept my mouth shut and let them have fun. I hope I don't disappoint them when I explain later that staying in position and waiting for the ball to come to you is really how to do "fielding".
When Will first started playing tball they did the same thing. Finally their coach took spray paint and made a little x on the grass and told them they had to stay there. I loved to watch them tackle each other over the ball. We figured they would have made a great football team. Will played first base for the first time in a game the other week and would run to 3rd base trying to catch the ball. It was so funny! Thankfully we were way ahead and the coach was letting outfield play infield so it didn't matter that he didn't get anyone out. Enjoy! Christy
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