The
de facto graduate assistant went on her first road trip of the season,
accompanying the Valpo softball team to a weekend tournament at Mercer
University in Macon, Georgia. The things
she learned, like how an arm could hurt after throwing four hours’ worth of
soft toss or a butt from sitting on an oversized bucket to chart pitches or how
to carry two cases of water from the gas station down the road back to the
hotel without dropping anything or getting hit by a passing car or how to print
out boarding passes for players without one.
None
of this was especially hard for Clare; she wants to learn everything that’s part
of being a coach. What she didn’t
expect, though, was the lesson from the lineup card. “I kept looking for my name.” It wasn’t there.
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