Season ending

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Ok it's probably stated before. but if your high school last game ends in mid may. Can a H.S. coach keep your dd from practicing or playing on your travel team by having scrimmages or mini camp thing prior to June 9th?

 

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I think he can keep you from playing with your travel team.

 

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I believe that once your H.S. team has been eliminated from post-season play and all other season commitments (games) are complete, that the girls are free to move on.

 

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What do you call post season? districts, sectionals...

 

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I may have found it. It's a wonder what someone can learn by reading :


4.3) A student may not play in a non-interscholastic fast pitch softball contest, game or scrimmage, while a member of the school fast pitch softball squad, until the student?s school team has completed its schedule. This includes tournaments when applicable.

 

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now I know that "school schedule" include regular season and playoff, but if the HIGH SCHOOL coach wants to "create and practice/scrimages after the schedule games/playoff , can he keep the dd tied up until the last date june 9th?

 

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I think the coach has to "release" the player or she can have eligibility issues for next HS season.

 

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I have to ask, why would a HS coach not allow a player to play summer ball as soon as their season is over?

 

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she was told by the Varsity Coach that he can keep her until june 9th. The reason I think he wants to keep the girls as a team as much as possible.

 

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High school rules limit the number of games, scrimmages, etc. The coach may be in error if he/she tries to keep dd playing beyond the allowed number of games. Call the Ohio High School Athletic Association when in doubt. That's their job, and if you don't trust them, get a name and document the answer or have the AD check into it. Sounds kinda screwy to me (IMHO)

 

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At DD's high school, as long as the varsity squad is still playing, ALL the players are still committed - regardless of which squad you are a member of - freshman, jv or varsity. Makes sense to me, because you never know if an injury to a varsity player may require bringing someone up from the reserve team(s). The season is done when you get knocked out of the tournament.

 

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This is an interesting question. A coach can always schedule more games if the team hasn't reached the limit of 27. For any team that hasn't played 27 games, there is no doubt the h.s. coach can keep the kids. I have to admit, I have toyed with the notion of scheduling a game like 2 days before the State and just having 15 or so practices in late May/early June. I haven't done it because I know the girls would hate it and it would negatively affect their travel teams, upon which I so much rely to build my program. Those 15 outdoor practices would be huge, though, for teaching some of the finer details of the game that we often can't get to otherwise.

Now for teams that have played 27 regular season games, I am not sure the rule is clear. I know there is no such thing as a formal "release". little omar posted the one bylaw and that seems to take care of it, but what if a team has completed its schedule, but the coach says he/she is going to schedule another game? Has that team completed its schedule at that point?

I think the real reason a few coaches won't let their kids go is that they think the kids need a break and that they are protecting the kids from their travel teams. A nice thought, but one that should be dealt with by parents, in my opinion.

 

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Joe, I think that by this time in the high school season (unless you're a highly ranked team) lots of the girls are ready to move on to summer ball. You tick your talented players off because they want to start practicing with their travel team, and you also tick your wallflowers off because they want to go hang with their friends at the pool.

I'll bet if you brought up playing "non-counting" late season games at a team committee meeting in the dugout, you'd get LOTS of rolling eyes.