In junior high, Sammy?
3/4 of these schoold district can't afford to bus the kids to school... and with more and more home foreclosures... it is going to only get worse on tax revenue for property taxes.
I had a wonderful conversation with a coach from Keystone Lagrange just last Sunday. We talked for amost 1 1/2 hrs about junior high ball. As their district is school sponsored and he was asking about the Junior High State Tournament.. to which I had to tell him it was for "club" teams and not school sponsored teams. It would have to be OHSAA sposored if it was school funded teams related.
He is one of those coaches that want to build a program for softball from JH on up for the high school. I commend him for that actually... but the truth of that matter.. all over this state there are districts that have and have not... thus limiting their financial resources to sponsor JH ball.
He was telling me that there are some NE Ohio coaches applying to OHSAA to delete the "contact rule". I hope he succeeds !!!! Time will tell.
In turn, he was glad to see someone offering the JH club team girls a school pride event such as the State tournament we are holding this Spring.. including regionals.
Both of us agreed there are indeed some terrible HS coaches out there that don't have a clue.
and then some that do and want to build a program.