Is softball being cut?
Is softball possibly coming to an end?
Jacki & Kelsey DeWald
Issue date: 2/17/10 Section: Sports
By Jacki & Kelsey DeWald
For 10 years Peninsula College has been recruiting young women to come and play for thesoftball team. But this may all come to a sudden halt beginning in the fall quarter of next year. Many of these ladies have been playing softball for a very long time.
Several of the players grew up in Port Angeles,"it makes no sense on why they are cutting the softball program, Port Angeles is a softball community and the point of a community is to take care of the people in that community," sophomore Colleen Murphy says.
Several of the players grew up in Port Angeles,"it makes no sense on why they are cutting the softball program, Port Angeles is a softball community and the point of a community is to take care of the people in that community", sophomore Colleen Murphy says.
The decision has not been made yet, but many of the ladies felt like it was already a done deal after a meeting they had recently. Some of the softball players even tried to talk to Tom Keegan, telling him that the team will down size on everything, from jerseys to riding in small vans instead of busses. "It's not about the sport of softball, or the young ladies who are playing it, or the coaching staff, it's about what's best in the long term for the college and its' athletic program. If in nine years with four coaches, two of them with full-time jobs on campus, we haven't been able to be consistently competitive in this sport, maybe it's worth considering another sport?" Rick Ross says.
If PC was to no longer continue with softball, there must be another women sport to fill that spot in. Right now the sport that would make sense would be women's soccer because of the turf field that is possibly going to be put in.
A decision as drastic as this can't be taken lightly, since many of the softball players feel that Port Angeles is a softball community, why haven't they been involved yet, and allowed to voice their opinion as well. Another complication for some of the soccer players is that they are on scholarships.
Freshmen Cimone Trout says, "one of my only hopes for playing softball, being from Alaska." If there's no softball team, what happens to those scholarships? Do the girls lose them? Question's need to be answered. But for now we can't say what is going to stay or what is going to change. Hopefully in the end the big dogs make the right decision.
For 10 years Peninsula College has been recruiting young women to come and play for thesoftball team. But this may all come to a sudden halt beginning in the fall quarter of next year. Many of these ladies have been playing softball for a very long time.
Several of the players grew up in Port Angeles,"it makes no sense on why they are cutting the softball program, Port Angeles is a softball community and the point of a community is to take care of the people in that community," sophomore Colleen Murphy says.
Several of the players grew up in Port Angeles,"it makes no sense on why they are cutting the softball program, Port Angeles is a softball community and the point of a community is to take care of the people in that community", sophomore Colleen Murphy says.
The decision has not been made yet, but many of the ladies felt like it was already a done deal after a meeting they had recently. Some of the softball players even tried to talk to Tom Keegan, telling him that the team will down size on everything, from jerseys to riding in small vans instead of busses. "It's not about the sport of softball, or the young ladies who are playing it, or the coaching staff, it's about what's best in the long term for the college and its' athletic program. If in nine years with four coaches, two of them with full-time jobs on campus, we haven't been able to be consistently competitive in this sport, maybe it's worth considering another sport?" Rick Ross says.
If PC was to no longer continue with softball, there must be another women sport to fill that spot in. Right now the sport that would make sense would be women's soccer because of the turf field that is possibly going to be put in.
A decision as drastic as this can't be taken lightly, since many of the softball players feel that Port Angeles is a softball community, why haven't they been involved yet, and allowed to voice their opinion as well. Another complication for some of the soccer players is that they are on scholarships.
Freshmen Cimone Trout says, "one of my only hopes for playing softball, being from Alaska." If there's no softball team, what happens to those scholarships? Do the girls lose them? Question's need to be answered. But for now we can't say what is going to stay or what is going to change. Hopefully in the end the big dogs make the right decision.
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