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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From our experience, HS sports are very competitive. If your child is interested in a specific sport make sure to find out if the coach also runs a club team or summer program for that sport so your child can get involved early. Without that connection it's hard to get onto some of the teams. This was definitely true with baseball and soccer at our HS.[/quote]

This.
If you see coaches favor certain kids or pick kids seemingly out of thin air the coaches probably know them from their club teams or summer programs. It's ethically iffy but that's how it works.[/quote]

That’s how it works at our HS. You have to do the coach’s summer/off season club team to make the school team. We’ve seen this and the coach told us this. It is not fair or right in general (conflict of interest, added $$ for families, etc)  and also specifically it’s not fair because you have to know and this information is not shared widely or publicly.  [/quote]

I don't think this has to be an awful thing that people make it out to be. For DD's sport, the money is paid to the school booster program and helps support the team. It's widely advertised and open to anyone. It's cheaper than any other training that I've ever seen and free to kids eligible for free and reduced meals. If anything, it takes some pressure off of tryouts because the coaches have worked with the kids for a couple of years by the time they get to high school. On the other hand, I know a coach in another sport who has a club team that seems to be a prerequisite for making the high school team. If that was DD's sport, I'd probably file a formal complaint with the county because it's flat out official corruption. [/quote]

No this would totally be a problem because not all kids are going to be on the Coaches out of school team, nor should they have to be.  What about the kid who may want to do a different sport or activity but still is just as good?  What about the kid who moved into the district later in the year so never even knew about this Coaches club team.  [/quote]

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