FCPS High School Varsity Boy's Volleyball

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Would this be an issue if boys volleyball is moved to Spring Season?

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Anonymous wrote:Would this be an issue if boys volleyball is moved to Spring Season?

There are no officials spring sports that need gym space, but that would make too much sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid doesn’t have to participate in this or any other sports. But you sound like a jerk when you complain about new sport that boys petitioned FCPS for years to add.

Oh please, this was organized by their parents. The loudest minority shouldn't be catered to.

The fact that you’re so put out about it tells me you’re anticipating your school’s team will suck. Too bad.

Why would I care if the boys volleyball team sucked or not? I only care if they take away gym space from fall basketball workouts.

Grow up. Not everything is about basketball.

I care about them taking gym space from girls volleyball. The boys football team already gets our best practice fields every day after school leaving field hockey to duke it out with soccer clubs trying to rent our other fields. Now girls volleyball loses too. I guess it's clear which gender FCPS cares about

Take it up with your AD and stop whining. Might as well say girls basketball should be canceled because it complicates the practices for boys basketball.

There is no point if they can't even get enough boys to field a team. They are now blasting out e-mail begging kids to sign up for tryouts.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid doesn’t have to participate in this or any other sports. But you sound like a jerk when you complain about new sport that boys petitioned FCPS for years to add.

Oh please, this was organized by their parents. The loudest minority shouldn't be catered to.

The fact that you’re so put out about it tells me you’re anticipating your school’s team will suck. Too bad.

Why would I care if the boys volleyball team sucked or not? I only care if they take away gym space from fall basketball workouts.

Grow up. Not everything is about basketball.

I care about them taking gym space from girls volleyball. The boys football team already gets our best practice fields every day after school leaving field hockey to duke it out with soccer clubs trying to rent our other fields. Now girls volleyball loses too. I guess it's clear which gender FCPS cares about

Take it up with your AD and stop whining. Might as well say girls basketball should be canceled because it complicates the practices for boys basketball.

There is no point if they can't even get enough boys to field a team. They are now blasting out e-mail begging kids to sign up for tryouts.

Give it time. Took time for lacrosse to catch on in NoVa, too.

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To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

With a base number that low, it's hard to not be fast growing. For comparison, 7.8 million boys played high school football in the 22-23 school year.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

You seem like a real PITA. Just because this isn't something that matters to you doesn't mean that it's not of considerable interest to others, especially athletic boys whose parents aren't particularly keen on the idea of their getting concussions or serious injuries playing football.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

With a base number that low, it's hard to not be fast growing. For comparison, 7.8 million boys played high school football in the 22-23 school year.

Volleyball teams have 6-9 players. Football teams, 30-60. Volleyball is catching on for boys; HS football has been around since the 1880s.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

With a base number that low, it's hard to not be fast growing. For comparison, 7.8 million boys played high school football in the 22-23 school year.

Volleyball teams have 6-9 players. Football teams, 30-60. Volleyball is catching on for boys; HS football has been around since the 1880s.

7.8 million vs. 77k. If you want to serve more boys, add additional basketball teams - 500k play at the high school level, many more would if they didn't get cut

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Anonymous wrote:Would this be an issue if boys volleyball is moved to Spring Season?

Boys volleyball is a spring sport in most areas of the country. Yes, that would make more sense.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

With a base number that low, it's hard to not be fast growing. For comparison, 7.8 million boys played high school football in the 22-23 school year.

Volleyball teams have 6-9 players. Football teams, 30-60. Volleyball is catching on for boys; HS football has been around since the 1880s.

7.8 million vs. 77k. If you want to serve more boys, add additional basketball teams - 500k play at the high school level, many more would if they didn't get cut

Who said the goal was serving more boys? And what does adding basketball teams have to do with the fact that boys volleyball is a growing sport?

Some boys prefer to play volleyball.

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Anonymous wrote:To waste money and precious gym space on a sport boys are not interested in playing when there is huge demand for access to HS team sports seems incredibly foolish.

In the 2022–2023 school year, 77,287 students participated in high school boys volleyball, which is a 16.24% increase from the previous year. This makes it the fastest growing team sport for high school boys in the United States, with a 22% growth rate over the past five years. In comparison, football has seen a 9% decrease in participation over the same period.

With a base number that low, it's hard to not be fast growing. For comparison, 7.8 million boys played high school football in the 22-23 school year.

Volleyball teams have 6-9 players. Football teams, 30-60. Volleyball is catching on for boys; HS football has been around since the 1880s.

7.8 million vs. 77k. If you want to serve more boys, add additional basketball teams - 500k play at the high school level, many more would if they didn't get cut

Who said the goal was serving more boys? And what does adding basketball teams have to do with the fact that boys volleyball is a growing sport?

Some boys prefer to play volleyball.

judging by the numbers, not many

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has this as well. I know a few friends' boys in other states who got college scholarships. My kid is very tall with huge hands so I think he would do well. He says it is still a "girls" sport. Hoping he changes his mind when school starts.

Have him watch some mens Olympics. Men’s volleyball is one of the most aplha sports out there. It’s tall guys that can jump and they just line up and smash the ball at each other for 5 sets.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has this as well. I know a few friends' boys in other states who got college scholarships. My kid is very tall with huge hands so I think he would do well. He says it is still a "girls" sport. Hoping he changes his mind when school starts.

Have him watch some mens Olympics. Men’s volleyball is one of the most aplha sports out there. It’s tall guys that can jump and they just line up and smash the ball at each other for 5 sets.

Hard to call a sport with zero contact alpha