Considering the fact that my topic is Coaching a Softball Team (high school) and softball season has not started my mentor Jennifer gave me the great idea to pick a girl from her varsity team that is in a travel ball team to help me with my mentoring hours and the only girl that lives near me that's in a travel team is a senior by the name of Karissa Martinez. Which works out perfectly since she's also my best friend.
For my mentoring hours I attended a tournament with Karissa's travel ball team, Storm USA called City of Lights Showcase in October 26-28. This tournament took place in Las Vegas and every game day lasted about 5 hours or more. Karissa needed to arrive around 7AM to the fields to go warm up with her team and Day 1 of the tournament was when I met Coach Diego in person. While the girls were warming up, Diego talked to me about what was going to occur in the 3 days of tournament and what I was able to do for him/with him to help me for my hours.
Tournament: Consists of three days and each day has 5 games with an additional individual camp. "An individual camp is basically where the girls play with other girls from other teams to help the coaches see how each player on their team plays under unfamiliar circumstances," said coach Diego. There are only 3 individual games per day that are 45 minutes each.
*sorry this is posted late but I really felt like this needs to be said since softball season hasn't actually started and my mentor Jen isn't in work right now for this. My topic is coaching, softball just happens to be the sport I chose so Jen suggested this idea to help me since i'm still talking to a softball coach and getting mentored along the way just in a different way which in a way help show me that this could also be a career path because Diego started coaching a high school team before he became a travel ball team coach.*
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