How does club soccer work in high school?

[Anonymous]

Parent of a middle school player here.

How does it work when your kid is also playing high school soccer? Does the team still do regular seasons? Tournaments only? And what’s the magic number of tournaments and/or league play to make things still competitive it not overwhelming when high school soccer is in the picture?

TIA!

[Anonymous]

High school soccer team coaches expect your player to not play on other teams during the HS season.

[Anonymous]

Club teams revise their practice/game schedule in the fall to allow kids to play for HS teams.

[Anonymous]

In VA the higher level teams dont do a spring season. And have an optional HS pool training.

[Anonymous]

High school trams would fall apart without travel kids. They should be letting them skip a daily practice to go to travel matches. One travel coach threatened a high school coach that his club will not send players to his high school team if coach blocks players from travel participation.

[Anonymous]

Nonsense. Plenty of kids to choose from for the team who don't play club soccer.
A high school team is for kids who attend the school, if kids can't fully commit then they shouldn't take the spot.

[Anonymous]

Our kid played club soccer and HS soccer. Coach was forgiving during the HS soccer season, where they practiced every day after school. He only played in the games for his club team in the fall (didn't attend practices).

Some travel teams have a once a week practice (Sunday afternoon) in the fall, and occasionally tournament, and go back to normal in November

[Anonymous]

The best thing about paying for travel soccer is that in the spring time you get about a 1/10th of the value as you do in the Fall. Fewer games, fewer tournaments, all offset by high school. Oddly, it is possible to actually over do it with less. HS practices 5 days a week, optional club practices, HS games, an occasional club tournament to kill your three day weekends.

[Anonymous]

It really depends on the expectations of your high school coach and your club coach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. Plenty of kids to choose from for the team who don't play club soccer.
A high school team is for kids who attend the school, if kids can't fully commit then they shouldn't take the spot.

Plenty to choose from, but the team level would drop off a lot. The travel team would be about as good without HS team players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. Plenty of kids to choose from for the team who don't play club soccer.
A high school team is for kids who attend the school, if kids can't fully commit then they shouldn't take the spot.

Plenty to choose from, but the team level would drop off a lot. The travel team would be about as good without HS team players.

So what? Its a high school team, for high school players.

[Anonymous]

On our team, we have half of the girls to play high school soccer in the fall because they go to private schools and the other half in public schools so play in the spring. The coach excuses all absences, of course but we still play as usual. This is the benefit of having high Rostered teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On our team, we have half of the girls to play high school soccer in the fall because they go to private schools and the other half in public schools so play in the spring. The coach excuses all absences, of course but we still play as usual. This is the benefit of having high Rostered teams.

The travel coach got mad because he had only 11 players for a tournament game while the high school coach was insisting his players had to attend practice.

[Anonymous]

Highly team, and coach dependent.
We are in a district which plays fall high school.
Friend 1's club team: Played full fall season. High school players excused from practice and games. You still have to pay. Few kids on this team played high school.

Friend 2's club team: Did not do league play in fall but did do multiple tournaments. Practices not required if playing high school.

DC's team: No league play in fall, one tournament in fall. Practices not required if playing in high school. Nearly all kids played high school and the few that did not were given the option of playing fall season with a different team in the same age group. DS did not attend any practices the whole season as they conflicted with HS and high school coach is strict. Still paid like $1500 for that time.