With the Chelsea girls basketball season ending Monday, March 10, some girls have to move over to their spring sports, but coming into the spring season with no prep is a difficult challenge. The girls who don’t have a winter sport on the Chelsea softball team have been preparing all winter for the season to roll around, but the girls who play a winter sport aren’t as prepared.

“It definitely helps everyone get to know each other which helps communicating on the field and just the regular season overall and it helps the team bond on and off the field,” Brooke Barlage (‘28) said.

The softball girls are already getting going and are very excited for their season, but the girls just rapping up their winter season  are behind on the next sport 

“I would say yes because when you play basketball you’re still in districts, or you’re still in the playoffs you don’t really know what stuff they are learning,” Peyton Myers (‘28) said.

Even though the girls coming from basketball have missed a couple of days, the team was very welcoming and helped the girls get back into the feel for softball.

“Any basketball player who has to come back and play softball, they normally take a day or so just to regroup, and when they come back we just show them the drill and make sure they know what they’re doing to get back into it,” Brooke Barlage said.

The support and encouragement of the softball team help everyone on the team get the bond stronger and get everyone into the softball spirit. The team is going strong with the 22 girls in the program and even though the program is a little small, they all have big hearts for softball.

“Softball is really fun, and we need more people to play it’s a big welcoming place where you can just have fun with friends and play softball and we would love for more girls to try it,” Barlage said.