So my daughter plays 10U travel ball during the summer. She wants to play year round and has a group of girls she absolutely loves playing with. We were all going to stick together so the girls could continue playing with each other and developing. The coach decided to take all of my daughter’s friends, except for my daughter, to another travel ball program and said nothing. A few of the parents reached out to me to let me know and were shocked because my daughter is one of the better girls of the group and because me and the coach are friends (Like hang out outside of softball friends). I spoke to the coach to ask what happened and why my daughter was the only girl he didn’t take. He stated it was because the team was already full as he was taking over another team at this new program and wasn’t having summer ball tryouts. It didn’t sit well with me but because we are “friends” I gave him the benefit of the doubt and had her go to tryouts for the program she’s been playing for. After tryouts when trying to figure out who was going to be on my daughters team, I found out that one of the girls got offered a spot but declined because she went to go play for the coach that left. Ya know the coach, my “friend”, who said his team was full 2 days before tryouts. Mind you, I know she wasn’t offered a spot before our tryouts because I spoke to the parents at tryouts and they were upset that they didn’t know the coach was leaving and taking a bunch of players with him. So my “friend”, the coach, lied to me about the team being full! I’m so upset but I don’t feel the need to contact him bc I know he’s just gonna make another bs excuse. It’s not because he needed a specific position either because both players are utility players. They can pitch, catch, play infield and outfield. Unfortunately, when my kid finds out that the coach lied, she’s gonna be devastated.
They will have tryouts in the fall but after the way the coach acted, I don’t want my daughter trying out for him bc what he did was wrong and really shady. On the other hand, my daughter still wants to play with her friends and really wants to go to tryouts in the Fall. I don’t know what to tell her about why I don’t want her trying out for that team. Should I just let her tryout anyway? I just don’t want to let her tryout then have the coach not pick her again, for whatever reason, and devastate her all over again. I’m hoping she’ll make new friends on her current travel ball team and want to stay with them in the Fall but idk what’s gonna happen. I’m just at a total loss. Oh and this coach had the audacity to ask me if my daughter made the travel ball team and I said yes, she made the 1st team and he says well technically I’m the first team hahaha! I was livid but bit my tongue bc I didn’t want to make things worse. What would you do in this situation? All I care about is my daughter continuing to play the sport she loves at a high level and not losing her confidence or love for the game bc of some jerk coach.