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Our dd played both this year, and if my wife had her way, this is the last year of rec. She says there more prima donnas in Rec than travel, both on the field and in the stands.
Our dd played both this year, and if my wife had her way, this is the last year of rec. She says there more prima donnas in Rec than travel, both on the field and in the stands.
Now, here's a question...
assuming my daughter makes a travel team next month...
how would it affect her desire to play CYO softball next year. For those outside of Cincinnati, CYO is a Catholic School league and, if I had to guess, fits somewhere between rec and travel as some of the schools have many travel ball players on their roster...Now, games should seldom be an issue because the CYO season is over before school lets out...but practices could be an issue...
thoughts/opinions?
Many middle school teams have travel players as well. As far as your dd's desire, well that is up to her. If she has friends on her CYO team, her desire will probably be to play CYO. My dd played middle school ball last year and the only conflicts we had were on weekends when both teams had practice as well as club volleyball practice or tournaments. Since volleyball was in season it took priority, then travel ball practice, then MS ball practice. Both the head coaches of travel and MS were aware of the conflicts in advance, and both were very receptive to the situation. Luckily, club volleyball tournaments were on weekends and MS ball games were during the week (except one game) so we were lucky there were no game conflicts. Good Luck!
Len
The fact is that some girls want both. This 7 page thread proves that. They want the advanced competition and they want to play with their child hood friends in their community. So they do both. I happen to think that is how it should be. Why should a girl not play rec ball with her friends, who she will eventually play on her high school team with? And why shouldn?t she play advanced ball if she is capable?
The problem is both sides are telling the girl she should not do both. The travel team tells her she is not getting anything out of rec ball. The rec team is telling her that she has to sit at then next game because she missed practice to attend a travel ball practice. The poor girl gets caught in the middle of 2 things she enjoys, competition and friendship.
Now, here's a question...
assuming my daughter makes a travel team next month...
how would it affect her desire to play CYO softball next year. For those outside of Cincinnati, CYO is a Catholic School league and, if I had to guess, fits somewhere between rec and travel as some of the schools have many travel ball players on their roster...Now, games should seldom be an issue because the CYO season is over before school lets out...but practices could be an issue...
thoughts/opinions?
Hey Len -
Not to get off topic, but on the theme of playing on 2 teams: how did your dd play on a school team and travel at the same time? My dd played 7th grade ball this past year and the coaches were pretty clear that you couldn't even practice with another team during the season. Am I misunderstanding something? Or is there another thread that addresses this?
Rick
My dd's MS team was not recognized nor funded in any way by the school so it did not have to conform to certain OHSAA rules. The MS team was essentially a club team made up of kids from the same middle school and played both other club middle school teams as well as school sponsored middle school teams. If your school team was indeed funded and recognized by your school, the coach may very well be in his right not to release your child until the school season is over, just like in high school.
Len
The thing that has created this problem is that some teams have been created that no longer require 100% commitment. Travel ball is not what it once was.
Thanks Len, that's the difference. Our program is recognized and funded by the school. I was hoping there was a workaround because the school program is similar to the rec level in many respects (as people here and elsewhere have commented). But she wants to play school ball too, especially to play with her friends, so we'll just have to deal with the school's form of resolving this commitment conflict!
Been on BOTH Sides of this... The Travel Team considering Time and $$$ Should Rule... But Rec GAMES I think should Take Precedent over Travel PRACTICE. If not then do what I ended up doing and Go Travel only. Not Fair to the Rec Team to do Practice over a Game.
WWolff talk about lorain and medina stacking a team.Hows it fell your daughters team beating up on rec ball kids.Must feel real proud.And you say we stack teams in our area.