Transportation to HS with sports gear

[Anonymous]

My DD is hoping to play softball in high school next year. Softball has a lot of equipment and she’s a catcher so there’s all that gear. Do the high schools provide a sports locker for student athletes? I don’t see how she can take her softball gear on the bus along with her school bag every day. The bus is pretty crowded. It would be a burden for us to drive her to school.

[Anonymous]

I feel you. My daughter was a pitcher/catcher at Poolesville. With her ridiculous school backpack, regular gear bag and catcher gear bag, logistics were.... complicated. The school did have an athletic shed where the gear could be locked up. We're not local to Poolesville (it's about a 35 minute drive... but a nice one). Everything works great up until there is an away game and the catcher's gear has to travel. I'd pick kiddo up from the away field and bring all the gear back home. If there was a practice between games, kid would take backpack and regular gear bag on the bus and I'd leave work a little early and drop off the catcher's gear during practice. The team had a few catchers, so that helped. If it was back-to-back games, I'd drive her to school. I actually enjoyed those drives... bagels and coffee and a teenager who still talked to me It's challenging, but you'll figure it out.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is not a catcher, but has a large softball bag with gear and bats. She carried on the bus and then stored it in her 7th period teacher's classroom during the day because the bag was too big for her locker. There is a shed by their softball field, so things could be kept there after practices. Now just wait for the away games that require them to leave school at 1:30pm for a 3:45 start time, which may or may not have buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is not a catcher, but has a large softball bag with gear and bats. She carried on the bus and then stored it in her 7th period teacher's classroom during the day because the bag was too big for her locker. There is a shed by their softball field, so things could be kept there after practices. Now just wait for the away games that require them to leave school at 1:30pm for a 3:45 start time, which may or may not have buses.

My daughter plays a different sport but she also leaves her equipment with her first or last period teacher.

[Anonymous]

We have to drive our kid. It sucks, but what can you do.

[Anonymous]

We have this issue with instruments and have had to buy our kids second ones to keep at school. It’s expensive and annoying that they can’t fit them on the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is not a catcher, but has a large softball bag with gear and bats. She carried on the bus and then stored it in her 7th period teacher's classroom during the day because the bag was too big for her locker. There is a shed by their softball field, so things could be kept there after practices. Now just wait for the away games that require them to leave school at 1:30pm for a 3:45 start time, which may or may not have buses.

My daughter plays a different sport but she also leaves her equipment with her first or last period teacher.

+1 for leaving the equipment in a teacher's classroom. Sometimes the athletic directors let you leave the stuff in their office as well.
DD takes everything on the bus. It's not the easiest thing but she hasn't really complained and it's part of playing HS sports. No way I could drive. What do you guys do that you have so much free time to drive your DD?