letting kids play other sports
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Quick question on this. Did you talk with school ball coaches before laying out this criteria as the travel sball trump school sport practices? How did they take that?
Our HS has minimal to no flexibility on missing school sports. While DD's teammates across the border in South Dakota point blank tell their school coaches this is what dd will give you. travel is first and i'll do school when it works for me. Its a tough dynamic. In the past i was just like the school coaches. You dont miss for anything.
On DD's SB team all 8 seniors had offers to play college softball. 1 was all state field hockey, 1 ran varsity track and 4 played varsity basketball. Playing Varsity sports in HS won't keep you from playing in college. Those coaches who think their 12-14U players need to focus so they can get the big scholarship are delusional. Now I will say that if your DD is a 6' freshman with junk in the low 60's you might want to consider dropping the other sports but only because pitching requires so much extra work.
DD's HS and many in our area have a HS first. The theory being you took a spot from someone so you owe the team 100%. I'm cool with that.
DD's HS and many in our area have a HS first. The theory being you took a spot from someone so you owe the team 100%. I'm cool with that.
I used to be this way as well. This is what we communicated to our travel team, and exactly what we have done for the past 2 years. Now i'm not so sure. We drove through the night from Chattanooga to get my daughter back for volleyball after nationals. I live close to Sioux Falls, SD. the little league team there qualified for LL world series. The kids on that team that play football are all missing lots of football practice.
It's quite difficult
Hard to justify missing the LLWS for football practice. Most kids will never amount to anything past JR high or HS football. LLWS is a moment in time that will last forever.
Up until 9th or 10th grade I think you need to focus on building the athlete and not the player. Then when they have the athletic foundation they are well positioned to specialize and become an elite level player.
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Really weird most school have practice right after school 6pm is is very conducive to getting homework done and eating dinner
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My DD has attempted to play middle school volleyball for the last two years. Both times, her season was cut short, or missed completely, due to injuries from other activities. This year (8th grade), she has zero interest in trying volleyball again. I hope she changes her mind. I think it would be very good for her. So far, her only significant sports interest has been softball. She does enjoy dominating PE dodgeball, however.
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Usually the girls get the leftover times once the boys are finished taking all the time slots when there are limited facilities in the school.
