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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know for a fact that 8th graders made the YHS and WL teams and bumped actual YHS and WL students. It remains to be seen if they actually enroll at the school. And these 8th graders didn’t stand out as superstars during tryouts either. So inquiries about the coaching and club bias seem to be valid. Lame and certainly doesn’t help team morale or loyalty when those 8th graders can play club and most of the Fall clubs have many advanced opportunities for them. Whereas there are nearly none for HS students who don’t play for their teams. Agree that the coaches need to do better. There was little to no loyalty shown to returning HS players who dedicated their time and energy to the teams in previous years and to their school. And who maybe don’t have the resources to afford or play for club.  It’s very sad at the HS level. Club I get it. But HS where the pride is to play for one’s school…. Very misguided and hurtful and ignorant of the coaches. [/quote]

Lots to unpack except the rules allow for 8th graders to play on JV. Don't like the rules, work with APS to change the rules or get you kid better.[/quote]

While I disagree with the rule, APS cannot "change" the rule.  It is a VHSL rule. [/quote]

APS "can" change the rules.  VHSL confirmed to me directly the exception is a "may" not a "shall." It's up to their member school districts to allow for the exception or not and the district can place further restrictions to the exception.  So this is an Arlington policy.  What remains unclear to me is whether this was a school board adopted policy, a decision made by district staff with athletics departments etc. and what problem(s) were they trying to solve.  The only board policy I could find has to do with the process and financial considerations for the addition and removal of team sports.

What is exacerbating the problems here is the massive growth of volleyball and for Arlington the three very large high schools between 2,100+ to 2,500+ students, no VB offerings in the option high schools and 8th grade.  We have a total enrollment last year in high school in the county of 8,178 and we had an additional 1,942 8th graders. Volleyball is one of the smaller team sports 12-14 players.  About 42 players total F, JV, V.  Last year Yorktown's JV team was about 12 players, but the potential pool of eligible students for JV is massive -all for about 12 spots.[/quote]

Not sure why it is unclear to you.  Arlington is simply following the eligibilty rules (I do not agree with the exception rule) as determined by VHSL.  No school district is obligated to state why they are following the eligibility rules as written.  Furthermore, if VHSL is going to state that 8th graders are eligible in their rules, but allow a district to declare 8th graders ineligible if it chooses to do so, then VHSL should be more explicit in their eligibility rules as to such.[/quote]

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