Is it not possible to accommodate every interested high school kid on a school sports team?

[Anonymous]

This probably has something to do with it:

https://shunoutdoor.com/article/do-highschool-football-programs-make-money

EG secondary teams' football/basketball aren't likely to generate revenue or at least they are likely to cost more. Though, I have seen some that claim they still cost more money.

When you are in a sport that is expected to sell tickets, it is a much different experience.

The thing is that in the urban areas, the cost of fields and space is non-significant, so you can't just have additional soccer fields or cricket alleys or whatever they bowl on.

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Anonymous wrote:There are varsity lacrosse & varsity soccer for both boys and girls in the spring, and they use the football field for practice and game. Just don't see how it is possible to fit JV teams on the same field.

After varisty practice when the private travel soccer and lacrosse teams rent the fields. Don't rent them out and let high school teams take that time

If you don't rent out the fields where do the kids learn the sports in the first place? It's not like every organization using a field is some evil for profit club. What about rec leagues where 5 and 6 year olds can fall in love with the game?

As an example, girls rec/travel softball is chronically under-allocated fields in Fairfax (there was a county report on this in January 2023). Should we tell them they can no longer use the lighted high school fields and now only get the very few lighted park fields in the county? How does that work?

Are you willing to pay more taxes to build more?

As someone who lives next to Langley high school, the school can rent out a softball/baseball field during the fall season because softball/baseball is a spring sport. It is not possible to rent the football field during the fall season for soccer/lacrosse due to the football season. I saw Lewinsville park in McLean being packed with organized soccer for the last four weeks with kids from parents that could afford it.

Yes, for more sports fields (and lights + turf) I would actually pay more taxes.

You should bring your complain to the Fairfax County Supervisor Board. FCSB can make Fairfax County Public School to make the football field, softball & baseball field available during the summer to accommodate the demand.

Our HS doesn't allow non-school teams to use their baseball fields, while other HS do. I guess it's up to the principals' discretion?

That's why I said the County Supervisor Board should make the change to allow HS fields to be availalbe during non-season, and during the summer.

So you're forcing every league to move their primary season to the summer?

That won't work for Little League baseball/softball at a minimum, because of all-stars.

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Baseball/softball fields at high school in FCPS are NOT in use during the summer & fall seasons. The Supervisor Board can change the rule to rent them out during the summer after 3pm in the fall. That would solve a lot of problems. As far a Lax and soccer are concerned, that would be a problem because the football field is used during fall and spring seasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Not enough coaches and fields to accommodate extra freshman teams for most sports at the large public schools. Our private has three teams for many sports—essentially expand to accommodate interest, but they also have total control over how the fields are used and can bring in new (and pay) coaches. Our private also has intramural options in each season. Every kid does something physical 2 of 3 seasons/year per school requirements.

They have the fields if they stop giving private clubs field space.

Not at our FCPS HS. We already have to send V/JV teams off campus to practice.

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I'm the above 18:07 poster, adding to clarify that we don't rent our field after school and still don't have the space for all the school teams to practice on campus.