FCPS Volleyball--
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Anonymous
| Did your house league only player make the Freshman Volley team at their HS? Our school took many players with little experience but cut my DD who has 1 year of Select experience. It stings. I think she presents as timid and not friendly. Could that be a factor? |
Anonymous
| My DD reported that experienced club players got cut from the freshman team. I don’t know if that’s true or not. It’s brutal out there. |
Anonymous
| Its so tough to make most sports at these big fcps high schools. |
Anonymous
What do you mean by "1 year of Select experience"? If it is rec league experience, I am not surprised. There are kids going into tryouts with 1-2 years of club experience. At my DD's HS there were about a dozen players with club experience, so the coach ended up including a few more players with rec experience. Those who constantly let the ball fall around them without even making an attempt to get the ball back in the air were the first to go. The was also looking how fast the players were getting to the ball and how well they communicated with the rest of the players on the court. It is likely that "timid and not friendly" was part of the reason she was cut if it translated into her not calling the ball. |
Anonymous
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This is pretty typical. Same for our HS.
Also - height tends to be a big factor. |
Anonymous
| Our HS took a girl with one season of rec for the freshman team. I have no idea what (if any) cuts were made. |
Anonymous
| Our HS took no freshman for varsity and a few club players for JV. The freshman team is mostly tall inexperienced girls and club players. Most girls trying out were cut as were most sophomores who played freshman last year |
Anonymous
Same for our HS. My DD doesn’t play but is a sophomore and has 2 friends who were cut this year (both made the freshman team last year). Seems like only about half of the freshman team makes JV. Same at our school for basketball. Smaller teams are hard. |
Anonymous
| FCPS appears to be trending in the direction of not taking many 9th graders for varsity. Our volleyball team only took 1 player for V, 1 for JV. This allows more girls to participate. We saw the same last year. |
Anonymous
Is this even legal? Should the better player(s) get selected for Varsity, even if they are 9th graders? |
Anonymous
Legal? A coach can decide to keep a kid for many reasons including experience. The coach may want more experienced and mature players and let the freshman develop her skills on JV. Unless a freshman is starter level, I think it’s best to develop them on the key roles on JV for a year. But, I know many coaches prefer to just cycle through the underclassman each year and never try to develop kids. |
Anonymous
This is exactly why my kid plays individual sports where results matter and the coach just can not cut her from the roster if she is better than other individuals on the team. Team sports are such BS when coaches do this. |
Anonymous
Or a coach can be following policy to include as many players at the school as possible. To achieve this, 9th graders stay on Freshmen. That allows upperclassmen to also be on teams. Win win for participation. |
Anonymous
The number of roster spots (and the number of girls participating) does not change based on which team freshman play on. Loading a freshman team with players who would otherwise play varsity or JV just means more freshmen get cut as opposed to upperclassmen. |
Anonymous
Assuming there is that much freshman interest. Fielding a freshman team could be tough if they take the most competitive players and place them on Vars or JV and cut upper classmen for those players. So effectively, it dilutes the freshman pool and cuts more people out of the game. |