Does your pre-high school program make cuts?

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Hal Lebovitz, the longtime sports editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and a respected football and basketball official in Northeast Ohio for decades, once wrote a column about what happened to a boy whose dreams were crushed when he tried out for his school's football team, only to be cut shortly after summer practices started. I do not have a copy of his column available, but if I find it in the Plain Dealer archives I'll try to post it. The thrust of the column, at least what I remember about it was the responsibility coaches and adults have to each child and their dreams. The kids will cut themselves if they don't want to put in the time.

 

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Our Middle School does make cuts. 80 plus 7th and 8th grade girls try out and two teams are formed with a mix of 7th and 8th graders on each team. Our daughter is a 7th grader and she had to make a choice to either play for her school team and miss half the travel season or play a full travel season. She chose to play all travel ball-I would of liked for her to of done both, but she's the doing the work and I'm along for the ride!

 

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my dd is in 7th grade and they have 27 girls trying out.sure she will make it though she is only 1 of 3 travel ball players.but 27 is a good number for 7th grade

 

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This is my dd's Middle School's first year for having a team. It will be a mixed 7th and 8th grade team. We're expecting about 20 girls to tryout for the 14 spots. So there willl be cuts likely.

 

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I am trying to get enough girls at our middle school to form a second team. It is a small school but so far we have about 18 girls trying out. I hope to have enough for the second team so I don`t have to make cuts, but I will have to if we can`t get enough. I am willing to form the second team to keep all girls involved and teach the younger ones a lot of fundamentals rather than cut and risk discouraging any of them. I will still encourage them to come out to practice and work with them even if I have to cut, ( hoping to keep them interested ), if they want to. I think it`s a good way to help grow a schools program.

 

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I am trying to get enough girls at our middle school to form a second team. It is a small school but so far we have about 18 girls trying out. I hope to have enough for the second team so I don`t have to make cuts, but I will have to if we can`t get enough. I am willing to form the second team to keep all girls involved and teach the younger ones a lot of fundamentals rather than cut and risk discouraging any of them. I will still encourage them to come out to practice and work with them even if I have to cut, ( hoping to keep them interested ), if they want to. I think it`s a good way to help grow a schools program.

Another option could be scheduling some extra games and treating them as "jv" games.

 

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Another good option wildfire, thank you.

 

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Good luck Troya.

 

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Thank you philbob, can use it. lol

 

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My dd's middle school did not have enough girls for a 7th grade team. She is in 7th grade. The AD told us that since there were enough girls for the 8th grade team and in fact so many 8th grade girls that they were going to have to make cuts she could not have the opportunity to try out for the 8th grade team. We have 3 middle schools in our district and since we did not have enough 7th graders, that after one of the other middle schools makes their cuts they would ask the players that were cut if they would likt to come play for our school. That does not gaurantee that there will even be a 7th grade team those players could say no and they did not allow the 7th grade girls from our school to even have the chance to try out for the 8th grade team. How wrong is that!!!! The AD told us that it would not be fair to cut an 8th grader for a 7th grader. It is not about fair, it is about did you put in the work to be good and EARN the spot, not have it handed to you because you are in the 8th grade. Politics aren't they GREAT!!! The freshman coach wants her to play for him but, then she would have to give up a year of highschool eligablity and you are only in highschool once!!!

 

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Our school is considered a div 2 school and a nice size town. We dont have cuts due to we have a hard time getting enough girls to play. We have a few girls from near by towns that come up short for players. I believe 8 of the 11 girls on our team are ours.

Problem is softball is dead in our town. For girls it is a $occer and volleyball town. Strange considering the size of Norwalk.
Of course we cant consider the girls from the Catholic school (st.paul) in our town. But their numbers are not strong either.

Sounds like our school district - small D2 and can barely field a JV and Varsity team in high school for softball. Soc cer, cross country and track get most of the girls.

 

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ohlovessteelers - I'm assuming your avatar pic is your DD? Looks like a nice toe drag in the making!