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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the weekend our team didn't have any subs for a tournament so the coach brought in a girl from a higher team to fill in (which is allowed.)  He then started that girl and had her play the entire tournament, while he sat girls from his own team -- the same three were subbed over the course of each game.  That really bugged me.  We pay for this team, our girls are the ones who got us to the event.  And we lost anyway -- it was always a given we weren't going to win.

Am I wrong to have a bad feeling about this?  Of course she should have played-- f she was subbed an equal amount I wouldn't have had a problem with it.  But this way felt wrong to me.[/quote]

Travel sports are a racket and sometimes the only path to play on a HS team. In my kids’ sport those that don’t play on teams that the coaches or their assistants run or are so-called national teams have been told directly or indirectly will not make the HS team. Every HS team has their preferred travel clubs.

Some of these clubs have “lesser teams” that give kids hope of playing HS but really just fund the upper teams with kids who will play HS. The most egregious ones travel on the east coast / between PA and SC, and play guest players. I’ve known a few families with kids on national teams with good players who traveled out of state on weekends to see little to no play time while guest players played. When kids were younger and maybe the team was low on players for a tournament I could understand having a guest player or two FOR THAT WEEKEND, but some became more regular.

I’ve seen good players, three were star HS players, quit over silly politics like this. The stars decided to focus on their secondary sports (nice when you have options!).

Dont think this is limited to sports. Performing arts are similar now a days (minus the guest player issue). Travel sports teams that play non-paying guest players play over those on the roster suck. These organizations need to be held accountable. They are being paid to give kids an experience, they are not paying the players. That’s the difference between travel and professional teams.

Sorry, OP. [/quote]

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