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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this possible, at all? Does it ever happen?[/quote]

I have seen this happen only rarely.

Every coach wants to win so if your kid is good enough to start for their squad, then they will make they team (there's a bit of politics in who gets court time but once again, coaches wants to win, so unless it's close, the coach will play the better player).  The politics for making the team doesn't come into play until you get towards the end of the bench where you might pick the kid who has a lot of friends on the team or is "good in the dugout" or the more active parents.

The sophomores on the JV team that were not on the freshman team are usually transfers because a lot of freshman girls do not make JV and if you cannot make the cut for the freshman squad, then the chances that you improve enough to leapfrog the freshman girls is not high.  Once again, politics is not as big a deal as people make it out to be on public high school teams like it is for club teams.

Club teams are much more political because the players parents are paying thousands of dollars out of pocket, in some cases tens of thousands of dollars including travel costs.  They have to be more political than the high school coaches making $5000/season that usually aren't doing it for the money.

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