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Anonymous wrote:If the injured girls were on the team previously that was why their spots were held.

That's not how try outs work. Being on a team one season is not a promise to be on the team another season. You'd think someone on a sports forum would know that.

Many 8th grade kids are nearly 14.5 in the spring of 8th. And NOT redshirted.

I'm sure someone on the sports forum would know that is how it works if they were starters.

Get off your high horse.

Nope, still isnt how it works. "Starters" have crap seasons all the time.

Bless your heart. Do you have kids who have actually played high school team sports? Of course that how it works. My kid was offered a sport on his high school basketball team in March of his eighth grade year. Sure he went to tryouts, but they were a formality. That’s how tryouts work.

Your kid's HS obviously has a sh*tty team if they are offering 13 year olds a spot.

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Anonymous wrote:If the injured girls were on the team previously that was why their spots were held.

That's not how try outs work. Being on a team one season is not a promise to be on the team another season. You'd think someone on a sports forum would know that.

This is absolutely how it works at our private, returning athletes to a team attend tryouts but are guaranteed a spot.

Really? So if the team has no seniors than any new student is prohibited from playing? If that were a universal rule all kids of military families would never be able to play a sport. Your school sucks.

Is math not your thing? Since seniors graduate each year, there are always some open spots, just not an unlimited amount. And outside of running and swimming, there are limits on roster size anyway since only some many kids can compete.

It's not math, genius. If all players are returning and none are graduating, then at PP's school there would be no open spots.

Except there are always kids graduating, what alternative universe do you reside in?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

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The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

+1. West Potomac Baseball roster has varied by 13 spots in the last 4 years.

A roster is never full.

Ah… now I get it. You’re trolling. No one actually thinks that they can reason from one team at one high school to every sport/school.

This is like the 5th time you have missed the point.

You keep stating that rosters are full and there is a finite number. You can easily Google WP's baseball team to verify that you are FOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP who suggested that she volunteer to be the team manager. Otherwise have her go out for another sport like track to keep in shape.

Yes, this is exactly what I would recommend. Good luck! (And I'm sorry for your loss.)

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Anonymous wrote:If the injured girls were on the team previously that was why their spots were held.

That's not how try outs work. Being on a team one season is not a promise to be on the team another season. You'd think someone on a sports forum would know that.

This is absolutely how it works at our private, returning athletes to a team attend tryouts but are guaranteed a spot.

Really? So if the team has no seniors than any new student is prohibited from playing? If that were a universal rule all kids of military families would never be able to play a sport. Your school sucks.

Is math not your thing? Since seniors graduate each year, there are always some open spots, just not an unlimited amount. And outside of running and swimming, there are limits on roster size anyway since only some many kids can compete.

It's not math, genius. If all players are returning and none are graduating, then at PP's school there would be no open spots.

Except there are always kids graduating, what alternative universe do you reside in?

This is growing tiresome.

Yes, a school graduate kids every year but that doesn't mean the team graduates kids every year.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how this is so hard to grasp.

Let's say grandpa died on Thursday and the funeral was Tuesday. While the student was putting her school work in order and talking to teachers about missing work Mon-Thursday the next school week, she should have also realized that soccer tryouts started Monday. So an email on Friday or over the weekend, or even Monday morning explaining the funeral seems reasonable. If my kid had mentioned "hey soccer tryouts start Monday, what should I do?" I would have said "email the coach now". Try outs are very time sensitive!

But to wait until the next Friday, after tryouts are over, to then reach out and ask. Eh. It's much more of an ask.

Also, I have coached HS sports. Dealing with entitled children makes it incredibly hard. They acted like they were doing me a favor by being there and I got paid pennies for the amount of hours that I put in.

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I am sorry for your loss OP. People are very gracious and understanding about family emergencies, deaths etc IME….but they cannot be understanding and accommodate you if you don’t let them know. The world keeps moving and unfortunately there are still rules, dates, and deadlines.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

How are you going to bring up past rosters from pp (that's not me)'s school?
MaxPreps isn't always 100% accurate, FYI.

You can get team pictures and count. Some schools have past rosters.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

I'm the pp that just said MaxPreps isn't 100% accurate.

Also, it might be the case at your kid's school that the only sport with a serious restriction is basketball, but that's not the case at every school.
In some cases, it's about safety. Sports that require helmets (baseball, football) can't just add people to the roster if they don't have enough safety equipment, because you can't even just practice without it.

Post the school and sport

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Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

+1. West Potomac Baseball roster has varied by 13 spots in the last 4 years.

A roster is never full.

Ah… now I get it. You’re trolling. No one actually thinks that they can reason from one team at one high school to every sport/school.

This is like the 5th time you have missed the point.

You keep stating that rosters are full and there is a finite number. You can easily Google WP's baseball team to verify that you are FOS.

I'm not the pp you are quoting.
Where are you finding West Potomac High school's official baseball roster?

Here is the roster that is linked directly from the school website and it shows NO ONE on the roster for this year.
https://www.westpotomacsports.net/page/5490

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

How are you going to bring up past rosters from pp (that's not me)'s school?
MaxPreps isn't always 100% accurate, FYI.

You can get team pictures and count. Some schools have past rosters.

Where are you getting the team photos?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

I'm the pp that just said MaxPreps isn't 100% accurate.

Also, it might be the case at your kid's school that the only sport with a serious restriction is basketball, but that's not the case at every school.
In some cases, it's about safety. Sports that require helmets (baseball, football) can't just add people to the roster if they don't have enough safety equipment, because you can't even just practice without it.

Post the school and sport

Every school. Every sport that requires a helmet

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the injured girls were on the team previously that was why their spots were held.

That's not how try outs work. Being on a team one season is not a promise to be on the team another season. You'd think someone on a sports forum would know that.

This is absolutely how it works at our private, returning athletes to a team attend tryouts but are guaranteed a spot.

Really? So if the team has no seniors than any new student is prohibited from playing? If that were a universal rule all kids of military families would never be able to play a sport. Your school sucks.

Is math not your thing? Since seniors graduate each year, there are always some open spots, just not an unlimited amount. And outside of running and swimming, there are limits on roster size anyway since only some many kids can compete.

It's not math, genius. If all players are returning and none are graduating, then at PP's school there would be no open spots.

Except there are always kids graduating, what alternative universe do you reside in?

This is growing tiresome.

Yes, a school graduate kids every year but that doesn't mean the team graduates kids every year.

Having a policy that could be problematic in the unlikely event that no one graduates or moves or decides not to play or has a season cancelling injury is fine, as long as the team reevaluates the policy in the unlikely event that that happens. Having a fit about hypothetical military transfers in a very unlikely situation is a little extreme, when that situation isn't actually happening.

Also, pretty sure that OP's DD isn't trying for the West Potomac baseball team.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

+1. West Potomac Baseball roster has varied by 13 spots in the last 4 years.

A roster is never full.

Ah… now I get it. You’re trolling. No one actually thinks that they can reason from one team at one high school to every sport/school.

This is like the 5th time you have missed the point.

You keep stating that rosters are full and there is a finite number. You can easily Google WP's baseball team to verify that you are FOS.

I'm not the pp you are quoting.
Where are you finding West Potomac High school's official baseball roster?

Here is the roster that is linked directly from the school website and it shows NO ONE on the roster for this year.
https://www.westpotomacsports.net/page/5490

https://www.maxpreps.com/va/alexandria/west-potomac-wolverines/baseball/roster/all-time/

Google the team and go to images they have all the team pictures there… cute try take nice pictures in the bleachers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the legitimate reason?

Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

+1. West Potomac Baseball roster has varied by 13 spots in the last 4 years.

A roster is never full.

Ah… now I get it. You’re trolling. No one actually thinks that they can reason from one team at one high school to every sport/school.

This is like the 5th time you have missed the point.

You keep stating that rosters are full and there is a finite number. You can easily Google WP's baseball team to verify that you are FOS.

I'm not the pp you are quoting.
Where are you finding West Potomac High school's official baseball roster?

Here is the roster that is linked directly from the school website and it shows NO ONE on the roster for this year.
https://www.westpotomacsports.net/page/5490

https://www.maxpreps.com/va/alexandria/west-potomac-wolverines/baseball/roster/all-time/

Google the team and go to images they have all the team pictures there… cute try take nice pictures in the bleachers.

Max Preps is not always accurate.
When I google I only find one team pic in the bleachers, and it does not indicate what year it is from.

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Her grandfather died and she was at the Funeral in Ohio.

And was the coach notified before or after she missed tryouts? Was she registered to try out?

Some sports are cut sports and a student not showing up is an easy way to make a cut.

Anyone who is not an ahole piece of sh-- would cut the kid some slack and let her try out or make an accommodation. Even if they did not tell the coach, "contacting the HS lax coach" is not high on the list when a family member passes. This is not the NCAA, NFL. It's HS.

Contact the AD.

But logistically, what is the coach going to do after this extra try-out?

All the athletes have been notified that they've made the team already. Is the coach going to rescind an offer to one of those girls if OP's daughter does well at the tryout. How do you think that poor girls family would react to that scenario?

Coach is not being an a-hole. He held his tryout and he assembled his roster. This is just the way it work

Coach is being an ahole. THERE WAS A DEATH in the family, for Fs sake. Kid wasn't in Cancun.

Unless there are no spots available -and that is a valid point- there is no reason not to let the kid have a try out or practice with the team. None. Zero. And at our school, which has some very good sports teams, there are always spots available. They may not dress but they can practice, show up, and vie to dress.

Again, this is high school. There is no reasons for this type of behavior by some wanna-be Nick Saban.

I'm not the OP or the person you quoted.

At my kid's current high school, the only sports that do NOT have a limited number of spots is cross country and track. My older kids went to a different high school than my current high school student, and it was the same there. From what I've heard from friends with high school kids at other schools, it's the same at those schools too.
There just isn't an unlimited amount of spots for sports like soccer, tennis, softball, etc.

+1

The poster that keeps saying "just add her to the roster" either has a child that doesnt play in one of the more competitive sports, or has a child that goes to a school that doesnt routinely fill out a roster

If you have a HS of over 2,000 kids, and they have a few hundred show up to a baseball or softball or basketball tryout, there are going to be cuts.

You can't simply "add a person to the roster after tryouts". It would be incredibly unfair to all the kids that came to the tryout, did their best, but didn't make the team.

And the alternative (cutting an athlete that has already made the team) is even worst.

The only sport that has serious restriction for roster is Basketball and since that is not a spring sport we are not talking about basketball.

I can bring up rosters from your HS from each year and show you there is not an exact number.

What is your school?

How are you going to bring up past rosters from pp (that's not me)'s school?
MaxPreps isn't always 100% accurate, FYI.

You can get team pictures and count. Some schools have past rosters.

Because kids are never absent on team picture day?