Spring Sports tryouts with snow

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Anonymous wrote:Yes spring sports always get the shaft. I have no idea why they don't put softball and baseball in the Fall when they have more time and decent field conditions. Many states that start in Aug and end in May put those sports in the Fall.

Baseball is always in the spring - public and private. Unlike the snow day policy, MCPS is not doing anything differently.

I agree that baseball/softball should be in spring mostly because of tradition but also because they balance sports across seasons. but I hate that the season is so compressed. our schedule shows 3 games per week-- one to two of them require missing at least last period to get ready. It's just oo hard on academics. I love the fall schedule because it starts before school begins and anyway the first couple of weeks of school are easy, so less academic disruption.

They could move soccer or field hockey to spring since it’s all on turf. Why does Fall have 3 turf sports and Spring has one?

HS Soccer would never move to the Spring because most of these kids play high level club soccer in the spring. Field Hockey moving to the spring would also be a poor move because the player overlap with lacrosse is too great.

virginia has HS soccer in the spring and club in the fall.

Many sports do. Once it moves to the state level, all the money grabbing club sports change their seasons to whatever is the opposite

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Count me in as a frustrated parent. We are 12 days in on the season and my kid hasn't touched a field yet. The snow/rain and winter season still continuing has made it impossible. I would 100% be on board with moving baseball to Fall. Or at the very least push the end date back 2 weeks until the end of May.

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Our spring season ends the week of AP exams so it is basically over after the first week of May. I know that seniors finish earlier and many are done when they wrap up AP exams but it seems like going to the middle of May would make sense. Playing baseball in 30/low 40s dodging piles of snow is silly.