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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For putting multiple 8th graders on Arlington County high school JV teams (not even freshman teams!) and bumping hardworking sophomores/juniors who now can’t play for their *actual* school.

13-year-olds shouldn’t be on a high school JV team when there are only 12 spots.

And shame on the coaches for enabling this. [/quote]

ITA. This is when many Sophomore/Junior players start recruiting and the JV high school coaches should have used more common sense. [/quote]

Do many juniors who play JV and are worse than 8th graders get recruited? This is a surprise to me. [/quote]

Exactly.  If an 8th grader beats out a 9/10th grader, then it's an unlikely that kid will get in front of a recruiter.  And what recruiters go to JV games anyway?
Full disclosure: my DD was an 8th grader on a JV softball team at YHS.  I do think it's odd that they aren't restricted to the freshman team if there is one, but it just sounds like a lot of sour grapes.  The 8th graders that came after my DD were a killer group and we knew that some of them would make varsity ahead of her.  [/quote]

NP here and I have boys who are in elementary school so I don’t have a dog in this fight. But I do try to keep up on this type of issue because mine love sports and will go to Yorktown someday.

[b]My feeling is that these teams do not need to be (and shouldn’t be) prioritizing recruitment and winning to this extent. There are many other benefits to HS sports. [/b]

I find it sad that girls who are good enough to make a JV team but not necessarily good enough to go on to college level play are having their sports careers cut short in order for 13 year olds to make the team (who btw can already play competitive club sports and will likely make JV, varsity, and college teams if they’re “so” amazingly good to cut older players).

I will never have a daughter playing volleyball, but I am sad for the girls who were enjoying their sport, getting exercise, and felt part of a team now losing that opportunity. Do we really need to teach kids this young that they are expendable the moment someone younger/better comes along?

What next? Should we have talented middle schoolers taking spots in the HS play? Or the math team? And so on …

I think current HS kids should get to take advantage of HS programs and the MS kids will get their turn someday. Playing up to a 9th grade team could make sense in some cases, but I hate that the adults are losing track of what HS sports should be about.[/quote]

When we were in high school, 80s through the 00s, recruiting was not common for public high school sports. Athletes played for the love of their school and their sport. Times have changed and our generation (as adults) is to blame.

Many of us saw that local eyewitness news story last month about the football recruiting scandal at a nearby FCPS high school. Sadly, recruiting has prevented many in bounds kids from playing a sport. Middle school students competing for limited spots on a high school team only exacerbates the problem. After some thought, maybe APS should allocate money for junior high volleyball, field hockey, and baseball. That would reserve the competitive high school teams for high schoolers. Football, which has no cuts, can continue to offer spots to 8th graders. [/quote]

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