How is reality compared to the expectations?

TheGFG
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:07:26 +0000

So far, my D loves her team and thinks the coaching and training staff is top notch. The time commitment is probably a bit more than what she thought it would be, but she enjoys the people so much that it doesn’t bother her yet. In addition to practices, there are the meetings, photo shoots, bone scans and body composition screenings, etc. to attend. Recently she also had to add on to her day some pre-practice visits to the trainer for treatment for a mild over-use injury. The athletic level is very high, which required (and will continue to require for some time) a big adjustment from what she was used to on her high school team. This was not at all unexpected, since she knew her high school team was rather weak. But now she sees that it was far weaker than she knew, and also much worse than the high school team experiences of the other freshmen. Feeling so relatively unprepared frustrates her, but it also gives her hope of seeing some significant improvement under better coaching.