change with the help of one assistant coach who helped her out 4 days a week at the field we worked at home after work at the field and on off days. Unfortunately she was put behind by travel ball coaches that would not let her make the change that summer. Travel has her hit righty while she was working out lefty. It was a difficult summer and fall, but when she got to school ball in the spring she fully made the shift to lefty slapper. Her ability to do both that summer still amazes me. Then in her senior year she had a coach who gave her the option to switch hit. She took the option and for about 5 games she got no hits and then made the decision on her own to go back lefty slapper full time and ended up hitting a little over .400. In short, she made the change because school coaches asked her to and she agreed. She was good and could have played DIII or DII but she knew that she didn't need softball to go to school. Went to VT and graduated in 4 years with a double major and Double minor. Then went on to get her Masters. Softball was fun and she enjoyed being with her friends more than she enjoyed some of the situations she was asked to be in. We still talk about some of her escapades as a softball player and some of the athletically freaky things she did. Good memories and bad. Once saw her in a rundown between 1st and 2nd and after about 15 times back and forth the other team over threw the ball and she advanced to 3rd and dumb coach tried to send her home (she was exhausted) and fell between 3rd and home and got tagged out. That was in a 16U travel ball tournament.