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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Varsity.  I would want the experience of playing for the varsity coach.

I have never heard of such an offer.  In our school JV and Varsity are one program the head coach decides where you play.[/quote]

Just curious if some the of posters with the strongest feelings about choosing JV have younger kids.  Our experience was exactly like PP's. Varsity trumps JV and in some sports turning down the Varsity offer can end up being a problem later on. What's wrong with being a sub for one season? Normally the Varsity coaches and players are much stronger than JV so the experience provides much more learning than on JV even without a lot of playing time. DC will learn lots as a sophomore then be ready to step right in next season as an upperclassman who already knows the coach and other players. [/quote]

Sounds like the coaches realize that op's son is going to get very little playing time on varsity and therefore are giving him the option.

My niece is now a d1 athlete in another sport.  She was the only freshman to make the high school varsity team.  She saw almost no playing time while her friends got way more playing time.  She was miserable and wished things had worked out differently.  By senior year, several of the other girls were considered "better" than her (i.e. were picked for higher level outside teams, all-county and all-state awards).  Who knows how things would be different if she had played jv as a freshman.[/quote]

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