To me in serious on topic threads I feel like everyone comes off angry, or that's just me.
I've been beaten down by years of message boards. I don't want to mark something as useful or informative as it might be seen as sarcastic.
That is really sad to hear. I've always wanted to volunteer, especially as we don't have kids yet, so maybe I really need to look into this more. I figured parents/young adults would love to be able to teach a sport they love and help out a team of kids.
@Gossamer is completely correct about rec coaching, by the way. I coached my daughter for one fall rec softball season. While the rest of the coaches were figuring out how to get all of their daughter's friends on their team, I took copious notes at tryouts and the talent I drafted was far and away the best in the league. I also made practices fun-- we worked on fundamentals, but I ran shorter practices (1 hour instead of 1.5 or 2 hours like the rest of the league), hit each drill hard and quickly, included all of the girls at once (rather than 1 girl 1 rep, 11 girls standing in line). It was completely unfair-- we went 11-1 and coasted through the end-of-the-season tournament.
I've got three more years plus the rest of this one to watch my daughter before she goes to college. After she graduates from HS, I'm going to start coaching a softball team and see if I can repeat that success in travel ball. I kind of want to start now, but I won't have the time-- it's already hard enough just to watch all of DD's stuff, much less coach another team on top of that.