School sports and softball together
My daughter is entering middle school and is required to play a sport to stay in athletics PE. Softball isn’t an option, which I’m glad because it would just be a continuation of little league. She has settled on volleyball. There are some major concerns I have in getting involved in this, I’m curious of other people’s experience.
First off we have a strict training regimen that has produced results and has seen performance decline when we have distractions like little league eating into our training time. How do you work this in around school sports without physical burnout?
People argue that other sports build athleticism but that is only if you train to be good at the other sport from a young age, not when you just go try hard to satisfy a school credit. What are volleyball practices like? Will they at least have some conditioning and some jumping plyometrics?
What happens when schedules conflict? There is an area tournament scheduled the same weekend as a PGF tournament. There is no way she will miss the PGF tournament but some say softball players are expected to skip tournaments for school sports. That may be the case for local NCS or USA tournaments but not big PGF tournaments. How do others work around this?