My daughter played with the same glove from 9YO until her freshman year in college. It was a shitty pleather Easton that I bought at Hibbetts in Seymour for 25 bucks. Hey she was 9 at the time. The glove was shot, no stays in the fingers, I begged her to let me buy her a new glove. Finally early in the fall of her frosh year in college and said “dad I need a new glove, I had two line drives go thru mine today at practice.
Settled on a Wilson Pro Model, they retailed at $380 I believe back in 2013, 12 1/2” IF Baseball glove. My BSN rep hooked a brother up for like 250 ish. She always wore baseball gloves, but used a SB catchers mitt.