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No, it's none of his or her business. Unless you signed a contract when you joined the team stating you would not.
Yep, and there are a lot of high school coaches like me that wonder why these travel ball kids don't come back the following year any better then they were the year before......
Not only is it wrong. It' stupid. College Coach would always want to know/see how a kid does in their school program as much and sometiimes more then travel. There are all kinds os superstars out there and have the worst attitude in the world. That **** doesn't hold up in High School. Always a red flag when sally all star in Travel is sitting the bench or better yet didn't make the HS Team because nobody wants her on the team.
I coach in both travel and school. I HOPE all of the travel players love the game so much that they would leap at the opportunity to play more games in the Spring. Being a pitcher's parent, it is an opportunity to face well over 100 batters before the tournament season even starts! I say the coach should encourage their participation and should not discourage it except in extreme cases. Parents of travel players should be versed enough to handle the possible conflicts with a school coach that may be trying to get their DD to do something different from their travel/specialty coaches have them working on.
The fact that playing sanctioned ball was brought up to the team, and then the pros and cons discussed, and then a vote was taken could be viewed as coercive in nature - whether you meant it that way or not. I'm sure the parents of kids who were eligible to play sanctioned ball got nervous as to whether their kids playing time would be affected.
What did your team of 12 years olds have to show for the season of "staying together" and practicing? Do trophies outweigh the sense of pride/freindship that girls can gain by playing for the school. Point to those 10u and 12u trophies in a few years and see if your dd can even remember when she got them....most kids only remember the trophies they got for winning nationals- JUST my 2 cents
Tony ... I think the approach you took makes sense and was fair ... especially at the age level of the girls we are talking about here. I would agree more with jennatyui and have an issue with it if it were at the high school level though.
Having played you guys fairly early in the summer season, I think the results showed. We had not practiced together much at that point due to other various spring commitments by our coaches and players, and you were a much more polished team at that point ... and actually probably for the entire summer for that matter.
great point about some parents!Same here Buckeye Heat 97. I do not tell them one way or the other. I will say that if their school ball is sanctioned I would prefer they did not but that is their decision, not mine. If they want to play with their friends that is fine. You are only a kid once. I just wish some of the parents would realize that they are only a kid once as well.
What if the travel/select team your dd is on will possibly be playing 100 games or more during the season? There's always a chance the kid could burn out from too much ball. Personally I want my dd to play school, but will leave the decision up to her.
Good point. Those girls are a little more "conditioned" for that of play I'm sure. I don't mean physical condition, but they've always played year round so to them its a way of life.Always wondered if the talk about burnout in Cali. where they play twice as many games as us.