There's a chance she may be eased in towards the end, but we'll see. She goes back to the orthopedist on 4/2. The last regular season game is on 4/19 and then there could be post season play if they do well in regular season district play. It doesn't sound stupid. I wouldn't know if I weren't around the game. The doctor felt that they had her do too much too soon and that it could be deemed excessive even for a seasoned catcher in many cases. When you're in the game, you're up, down and moving around. When you're catching bullpens, you do not move. Most people who are catching bullpens aren't doing it to learn the position, so they sit on a bucket to save their knees. Contrary to the coaches' lies, Sam was never offered this option because they were supposedly trying to train her to catch in games. As for the girl with the fractures...I honestly have no idea. I have a feeling they're going to just let it go. It's a real David and Goliath situation any time you take on the school like that. I've seen people lose with far stronger cases. It usually gets nasty enough that the kid has to leave the school, and even then, word usually carries over to the new school and still makes it hard on the kid.
ASU has a decently ranked biology program. Granted, the rankings probably apply more to the grad level studies, but it does have a trickle-down effect into undergrad. Unfortunately, after reviewing the packets they gave us, none of the bio courses were on the Tempe campus. If I could have found this info online in advance, I would have never agreed to travel. In fact, we would have cut the school from her choices. Most of the bio classes are downtown or online and some areas of bio were strictly Lake Havasu. The girl that gave our tour said that the main library closes between 11-12 most weeknights and even more limited hours on weekends. Maybe it's because more kids are using their computers vs. library resources? We didn't see any preachers or missionaries, but definitely a number of people that didn't appear to belong on campus. While we saw a lot of the same while driving in Tucson near the campus, we didn't see it once we were on the UofA campus. It's hard to get a clear current enrollment number on ASU because they seem to pick and choose how they represent their numbers. Initially I'd seen that the undergrad population was around 65,000, but I found another figure of 112,000 undergrads. That much larger number factors in all of the students having to attend classes on the five different campuses and online. I've heard of schools having campuses within campuses, like Rutgers New Brunswick (which already seemed like a lot to get around and gave K some concerns during her acceptance considerations), but this seemed beyond excessive. I really liked the Phoenix area, but when I left the ASU tour, I almost felt like I'd just left a timeshare presentation scam. My displeasure with our Tempe experience is a bit different than yours, even though it's from the same school, but I can completely understand not wanting to return to the area.
Small world.