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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2334650, member: 1220"] Even if she is good the problem would still be exposure. To be offered a scholly you have to be seen and evaluated. The same problem exists as with her early basketball career. She plays shortstop for a high school which is in a very weak Academic league. I don't believe that softball has a lot of AAU teams so she would actually have to hook up with a summer travel team to get the right kind of exposure. One the plus side, you don't need to watch games, for you can always gage a softball players ability during a tryout.. And she obviously has a good arm. Something that needs to be considered is that young players develop at different ages. Little league is fairly early to get an accurate reading of a players potential. Girls usually develop faster than boys so at that age they are more equipt to compete with boys. As they get older the boys end up surpassing the girls. Mo'ne has not grown from the 5'4" she was in 2014. She probably peaked early physically. This also happens to boys who are at one time physically superior to their peers but then are caught and surpassed. Mo'ne is obviously still a good athlete who loves to compete in a variety of sports. That was evident by her not wanting to commit to basketball.[B] Nothing wrong with that at all.[/B] She seems to play for the enjoyment of playing the games she competes in. The sad part is that you can not do that anymore on the higher competitive levels.. Because the reward of scholarships the athletic bar has been raised to high that to compete at the higher levels you have to make an earlier commitment, especially with basketball. When you are good at a lot of things it is often difficult to make choices. She also seems to have the personality that lacks that competitive fire and desire required in a simi contact sport like basketball. She made a remark about AAU that[B] everyone takes it too seriously[/B]. That is very telling. Girls basketball is very competitive and is taken very seriously by those that play at a high level. She was not ever exposed to that in her high school program and Rec league. Rec being short for recreation league. Not everyone's personality is geared for the upper level competition required in some sports. I did rag on her advisors (parents) in respect to steering her the wrong way. But perhaps they really didn't. Parents certainly know their children better than the casual fan does. Sports isn't everything and raising a happy well adjusted person is certainly a higher priority than a star athlete. Forcing her to commit to a sport that she really wasn't ready to commit to might have been a bigger. mistake. Except to the very few, putting the focus and effort into becoming an elite athlete ( especially when the physical aspect is not there ) just isn't worth the effort required. I think that is what Mo'ne is realizing. Better to just continue to play the sports she enjoys rather than being burned out and frustrated pursuing a lost cause. [/QUOTE]

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