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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would you do? My daughter is on the JV team of a high school sports team. They are not competitive and have lost the two matches they played by a lot. They have just one extra player - for both the games, my daughter rode the bench the entire game. The first time, I told her to cheer up, nothing to do but soldier on. Yesterday, I went to watch the match and again she was sitting there, completely ignored by the coach - the coach seemed even a bit hostile towards her. She's definitely not one of the best on the team, probably not the worst and she goes to all the practices and does her best. If the matches were close, I would say the coach has to play the only the very best players but they are nowhere near close.

I've told daughter to write to coach and ask what's up - but I can see my daughter is going to want to quit the team and I can't entirely blame her even though it goes against my parenting mantra of don't quit.

What would you do?

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She should ask the coach what they think she needs to work on to get playing time. My kids' high school teams have too many kids so more get to participate and be part of the team experience. The downside of these too big teams is that some kids just don't get to play.[/quote]

DP here. This team is the bad-news bears. There is no harm in putting in the bench warmers at the end of an obvious blowout. It is good coaching form to do this if a game is unwinnable (or unloseable.)[/quote]

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