Summer Softball

The first phase of softball is always the high school season. I play for a small town named Byron (next to Rochester). We open enroll there instead of going to Rochester because of how much better the academics are. The high school season is difficult because playing for a small town limits the amount of girls that you have go out. Normally we have 9 or if we’re lucky we will have one sub. School softball is great because you have a place to have practice every day and polish your skills for the rest of the year. High school is always lots of fun and I love my teammates, but the true season I look forward to is travel ball.

This summer I am playing for two teams the Rochester Royals 16u and The Danes 18u. We have our first Royals tournament this weekend and I can’t begin to explain how excited I am for it to finally start!! I have played for the Royals for 5 years now and every summer it is the time of my life. My dad and Steve Lewison began the team when I was in 5th grade. It is crazy to think that most of these girls I have been playing with for over half of my softball career. Now wonder why my team is so close!

This will be my first year playing for the Danes. I played fall and dome ball with the team and was amazed at how much I learned over that short period of time. I was very excited when they asked me to come and play with them this summer. There is going to be lots of good competition and I feel that I am going to improve a lot learning from the older players and new coaches. I can’t wait for Danes camp and for the season to finally begin!

My teams are just like my family because I spend so much time with them. At least four days of the week I am playing softball whether it is a league game or in a tournament. Last summer the Royals played over 100 games together. That is A LOT of bonding time. Although we are playing with each other almost every day we still make plans to hang out one night a week. We always have movie nights, or sleepovers, or our favorite, to go tubing down the river all day. Even though I don’t spend much time with people other than my teammates I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Especially because those are the people that I love and want to be around the most.