Does NVSS use the 11″ softball when pitching to women players?
Co-Ed leagues do not normally separate players according to skill level, and compensate by using the smaller 11″ sofball when women players come to bat. NVSS on the other hand, goes to great lengths to ensure that our conferences and teams are matched according to skill level, with the goal of maintaining parity among teams in a conference. Both men and women players meet the same criteria in this process, and conferences and teams within a conference are as evenly matched in skill level as possible. Within a team there will be various levels of ability, but generally the men and women are evenly matched within a team and conference. To allow women to use the 11″ softball when batting under these circumstances would not be fair to the men on the teams within the conference who may be of equal or slightly less ability.
