Should I quit softball? Or should I keep going?

[Anonymous]

Okay so we've been doing summer softball gearing up for the season in August. Tryouts are coming up first week of August, & I played this summer to get the feel of it. It's my first year playing & I'm not an athletic person at all. I'm more of an academic girl I love anything academic, I'm going into my senior year & well since I've been playing this summer, & today I have practice & for about 2 weeks I have hates going to practice & I'm completely lost have no idea what's going on. I don't think I want to play anymore but I don't want to be known as "the girl that quit". I want to do it before tryouts so should I? Or should I keep playing?

by the way the only other sport I've been doing since I was little was cheerleading so I hate softball. It's too aggressive for me, & the coach is used to coaching baseball so he's really loud & yells ALOT! & he can be really intimidating. I'm not used to that at all. So he is 1 of the main reasons i don't wanna play either

[heavenonearth]

I think if you dislike it so much, then yeah, I'd quit. There's no compelling reason for you to continue to do something you hate. You can always find something else that you're more suited to. Also, I wouldn't worry about what people think. Just say you were busy, didn't really enjoy it and want to focus on other things. They're probably not going to pay much attention to it, and will forget about it soon enough anyway.

[Mark1998]

You don't have to keep doing that. Don't put yourself through all that pain, instead do what you really love doing. In fact, I actually quit football because it wasn't my thing, and I'm still happy with myself. I'm like you, more of the academic person. instead of trying to prove that you are the athletic person, let everyone know what you're really skilled at.

[jswag]

There is nothing worse than having a coach who is obnoxious and loud. I've been there. They act like their hot sh*t and truthfully, they don't know what their really doing. That reason alone I would say that its ok if you want to quit. There are better things you could probably do with your time.

[Plato]

You've got to keep doing it to make it a habit. Don't focus on what people think about you and try it out.

[TadCurious]

If you hate it don't play it. Don't make yourself miserable.