Practice Times

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baseball is the worst for this because there are too many baseball fields. There is rarely another group waiting for the field. Soccer, basketball, VB, lax, etc you gotta get out of the way of the next group.

Well then hand over all those 60' dirt infield fields to softball please, because the county keeps telling us they don't have enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - he’s a freshman on their small school’s varsity team, so saying something to the coach would be incredibly awkward for him. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next time, but it’s happened twice already.

IME, baseball has always been the worst. Even in LL, the coach would hold them after at the batting cages or for long drawn out discussions. His and my other kids’ main sport is hockey, so I’m used to practices beginning and ending promptly. Otherwise, the Zamboni will kick them off the ice. If they took forever in the locker room, it was on the kid, not the coach.

Tell the coach that every minute that your son stays extra is a minute that your other kid is late for his sport. If you put it that way, the the coach might understand why you need to pick him up on time.

Or since it’s high school, the coach could say maybe it’s best for your son to play JV instead. Can any of the older kids give your son a ride home? Or depending on where you live can your son call you when practice ends and then you head out to pick him up?

[Anonymous]

Ironically coaches say the same pretty much about parents picking up their kids late. It happens. A lot. Goes with the territory.

[Anonymous]

My DD’s high school soccer coach was the same way. INFURIATING. That their sport and time is more important everyone else’s is just plain egotistical

[Anonymous]

Really? There are empty baseball fields everywhere.