On the off chance my sophomore makes varsity

[Anonymous]

You will never know unless you ask and are upfront with the schedule conflict. It is unfortunate that kids that are multi-talented have to make this choice to sacrifice everything for a short season of athletics.

[Anonymous]

As you said it’s a short season of athletics, he can miss some stuff from his other EC during that short period and then give it his full attention once the athletic season is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As you said it’s a short season of athletics, he can miss some stuff from his other EC during that short period and then give it his full attention once the athletic season is over.

That isn’t a choice he is going to make.

[Anonymous]

It’s ok if he is not going to make that choice. The flip side is he should be ok not getting selected for the varsity team next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s ok if he is not going to make that choice. The flip side is he should be ok not getting selected for the varsity team next year.

I think he will have the same conflict, and make the same choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is unfortunate that kids that are multi-talented have to make this choice to sacrifice everything for a short season of athletics.

Making choices is part of life. Best he learns now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is unfortunate that kids that are multi-talented have to make this choice to sacrifice everything for a short season of athletics.

Making choices is part of life. Best he learns now.

I'm confused both by the PP you responded to who seems to think he is "sacrificing everything" and by your implication that he doesn't know he needs to choose.

-- OP

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ok if he is not going to make that choice. The flip side is he should be ok not getting selected for the varsity team next year.

I think he will have the same conflict, and make the same choice.

At most school, seniors are automatically on the varsity team if they were in the JV team at least 1 year. Since this will be an ongoing conflict and he can never do varsity, why not choose to do something else instead of taking a spot that could go to someone else might be able to fully commit?

[Anonymous]

What is this EC that conflicts with varsity but not jv games? At our fcps hs, they are played back to back.

[Anonymous]

We faced this dilemma. High school varsity basketball is pretty ridiculous these days. It's like a full-time, year round job. Forget about doing other meaningful ECs. Sometimes you need to make a choice.

Our DS looked at the time commitment, and said not worth it. It's not like he was going to get a D1 scholarship to Duke. So he backed off to a pretty competitive AAU team. Just for the fun of it. Instead of 7 days a week, it was 2 or 3. And it allowed him to do other things. It worked out. Varsity sports has gotten completely out of hand these days. And if you're not going to be recruited by a desirable college, it really is not worth the opportunity cost anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is this EC that conflicts with varsity but not jv games? At our fcps hs, they are played back to back.

At our school, the varsity does a bunch of weekend tournaments. JV will have one weekend game the whole season.

He's in an auditioned music program that has strict attendance requirements, and practices every Saturday.

[Anonymous]

Tell him to pass in tryouts and not hog the ball. He'll get passed over for JV. Not being snarky, but my DC could make Varsity as a benchwarmer but probably a starter on JV. They want to play so this is their strategy to get on JV.

[Anonymous]

We had this situation this Fall. He tried to do both- schedule got insane. HS sport was 5 days/week. They also play HS pretty far away.

He’s not going to play HS as a Jr/Sr- just club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We faced this dilemma. High school varsity basketball is pretty ridiculous these days. It's like a full-time, year round job. Forget about doing other meaningful ECs. Sometimes you need to make a choice.

Our DS looked at the time commitment, and said not worth it. It's not like he was going to get a D1 scholarship to Duke. So he backed off to a pretty competitive AAU team. Just for the fun of it. Instead of 7 days a week, it was 2 or 3. And it allowed him to do other things. It worked out. Varsity sports has gotten completely out of hand these days. And if you're not going to be recruited by a desirable college, it really is not worth the opportunity cost anymore.

What school is this that has basketball all 3 seasons? My kid would also drop her varsity sport if it required that kind of time commitment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell him to pass in tryouts and not hog the ball. He'll get passed over for JV. Not being snarky, but my DC could make Varsity as a benchwarmer but probably a starter on JV. They want to play so this is their strategy to get on JV.

Love this. haha smart kid!