LAst weekend my grand daughter turned 15 year old.
She has faithfully been her older brothers biggest cheerleader as they were growing up and my grandson was involved in pee-wee football and baseball.
He became a pretty good pitcher and an excellent shortstop and could hit for average.
He was always small for his age. His growth spurts had been delayed. In the past couple years he has grown about 5 inches. He has started in the boys Varsity volleyball team even though he is now only 5 foot ten inches. He started at Linebacker last year on the varsity as a sophomore.
He lasois the strongest of all the varisty football athletes. He does all his weight training with the offensive linemnen and defensive linemen. This year, as a Junior, he never comes off the football field the whole game. He starts on both sides of the ball. On Defense he is on the LINE as a run stopper, and goes from there to outside linebacker to strong safety. He is fast and he is very strong. He also wrestles varsity wrestling and last year won 90 percent of his matches.First year ever wrestling.
Now, back to his sister. She has been his biggest fan. She wears his number on sweatshirts and on her Volleyball uniform and her girls softball jersey.
She plays for the best ELITE softball team team in greater cincinnati whose players are ALL from other cities except her. St.Louis, COlumbus, Toledo, Springfield, Akron, Indianapolis, etc.....
She is the starting catcher. She just turned 15 and is a sophomore in High School.
So far, One Division one university wants her for their team and one top tier division 2 team, which plays against D1 schools and WINS wants her and offered her a ride already to comeplay with them.
So she is becoming quite well known now that she is seen by scouts at some of these highly skilled tournaments that they travel to to play in. Losing is not in this team's vocabulary.
They beat a Division 1 college team last weekend bothh games of a doubleheader.... The girls on this team range from 15 to 16 years old.
Yes, it is an elite team. And the coaches are very happy to have her. She hits over .333 and is a power hitter. I have watched her oput balls over the 225 foot fences that are ten feet high.
So, it was fun going to the university last weekend and watching her play with other girls that are also good,. She is the second youngest on this team.
The girl from St. Louis is the best pitcher and the youngest by a couple months. Her mother drives her here every practice and to every tournament.
Just glad I am not paying for all the traveling expenses and lessons she has had to take to keep getting better.
Her POP time, which is time from when BALL hits her glove till she releases the throw to second to get a runner trying to steal is right at 3.0 seconds. THAT is FAST. She also can snap the throw to second from squat osition with lots of speed on a line. VERY strong arm.
Normally, runners do not succeed in trying to steal. Once she throws out the first one and makes them look really slow, no one else tries it... She is that good.
So, I am blessed with two local grandkids that are having fumn in athletics and excelling.
Grandson is looking into going to West Point when he graduates. I hope he succeeds.... He is a good student but not great.
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