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The incredible things my first travel ball team taught me.

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was the first travel team I ever played on...Luckily we spent 5+ years together and I've never had more fun playing the game in my entire life.

When you start playing, it's SO important to be around people that encourage you, inspire you to be your best and you simply have a blast competing with.

LUCKILY OUR COACHES, PLAYERS AND PARENTS WERE ALL OF THAT AND MORE!

I'm not saying every team is going to be best friends, but I do think it's important to be around people to accept you for who you are --- for me that was awkward, skinny, fast and aggressive on the bases.

Sadly, I don't think many young teams now have little to no turnover like we did. The team was led by two dads (including mine) and our mission was simple: learn how to compete and have some flipping fun while doing it.

We built this team from the ground up.

We started playing in local tournaments (I'm pretty sure we played in Warsaw,...

A special tribute to all the "softball moms" out there

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I’m writing this in the middle of West Virginia road-trippin with my mom headed to watch my favorite Tarheel compete in her senior weekend in Chapel Hill and I thought…wouldn't it be fun if I asked you questions about the GLORY days of travel ball and if it was ALLLL worth it?!

Here's a fun Q&A we had in the car where we relived the glory days and tips on what mom learned along the way of raising three D1 athletes:

Words to describe travel ball life: crazy, fun and busy
What’s your favorite memory from all of it?: Trips we took together…Colorado was our favorite (we stayed in a house in the mountains with the team, went hiking and then seeing all the coaches and scouts at games was so cool) — went white water rafting. Parents made meals for everyone…Team did the dishes after dinner. THE BEST.

“Those were our vacations”
What do you miss most about travel ball days? -...

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Ashley Burkhardt Egel

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Hey, I'm Ashley! Since picking up a softball at the age of 7, I have experienced just about every realm of the game from little league, travel ball (with my dad as my coach), to playing at the college and professional level and I can't wait to teach you some lessons I've learned from the game in this blog!

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