I agree. If the slowpitch players haven't converted over to fastpitch by the time high school rolls around, odds are that it's too late. It's very frustrating to make the transformation just from league ball to travel ball, much less from slowpitch to fastpitch. I never played slowpitch when I was little, and I thank my parents every day for it.
Smyrna has a pretty big slowpitch program, maybe thats why their high school team is suffering so much.