Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:55     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:I saw the email yesterday about PB becoming a varsity sport. I don’t understand why it can’t be a club or a rec sport at high school. My kids are working hard to make varsity in their respective sports. It feels like an insult when some kid can take up pickleball and put down they play on a varsity sport on their college application. It’s not the same thing as years of intense playing, injuries and tryouts. What a joke.


LOL!
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:52     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:I saw the email yesterday about PB becoming a varsity sport. I don’t understand why it can’t be a club or a rec sport at high school. My kids are working hard to make varsity in their respective sports. It feels like an insult when some kid can take up pickleball and put down they play on a varsity sport on their college application. It’s not the same thing as years of intense playing, injuries and tryouts. What a joke.


This is a really odd take. Colleges only care if your kid is a recruited athlete…other than that, they don’t care much if your sport is varsity or your kid rows crew for their club team. It’s the time and effort that matter at that point.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:47     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I predict that in FCPS, football will cease to exist at certain HS where the demographics won’t support one team, let alone fresh/jv/varsity.


I think it would be great if football was replaced by a bunch of other sports that kids actually want to play, cost less, and have lower injury rates.

My kids go to an FCPS school (Woodson) where they don't fill the freshman football team even though they are begging kids to play. But have no freshman soccer team despite huge turnouts and cuts for the JV soccer team. While I don't see FCPS getting rid of football or adding pickleball anytime soon, I'm pretty sure based on the number of high schoolers I know that get together to play pickleball just for fun, that Woodson could easily field a pickleball team.


If they were smart, they would replace football with flag football which will likely become a college sport and will see a ton of interest with it played in the 2028 Olympics. It is also co-Ed so you can have girls teams as well.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:22     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
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Anonymous wrote:PB is another rich white & Asian sport, just like tennis or golf.

you literally need a plastic ball and two inexpensive paddles to play with on a free, public court. no lessons required, no stringing. it's as affordable as basketball.


Then please explain why I am not seeing a lot of POC playing PB. I play PB at Lewinsville park in McLean and East Potomac Center in DC and I rarely see black or Hispanic PB players. I only see either white or Asian PB players, young and old.


You are playing in McLean dear


That made me LOL!


Not many POC play PB. There are 76 PB courts in Fairfax County, and if you go to any of them at any given time, you rarely see POC and PB. That is unless you count Asians as POC. Go to any lifetime, Onelife, Village Pickle in Leesburg, PB in Tysons, and you hardly see any POC there play PB.

One thing about PB as a varsity sport in Montgomery, you can bet that 100% of team will be made up of tennis players that will also play varsity tennis in the spring. Anyone else will not stand a chance against them


That’s a silly comment. Pickleball is basically doubles game…plenty of people can become great at pickleball that would suck at tennis (or don’t play tennis) because you have to move so much less.

Again…it’s the equivalent of saying tennis players can easily become the best ping pong players because there is a racquet and a net.

Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:22     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:I predict that in FCPS, football will cease to exist at certain HS where the demographics won’t support one team, let alone fresh/jv/varsity.


I think it would be great if football was replaced by a bunch of other sports that kids actually want to play, cost less, and have lower injury rates.

My kids go to an FCPS school (Woodson) where they don't fill the freshman football team even though they are begging kids to play. But have no freshman soccer team despite huge turnouts and cuts for the JV soccer team. While I don't see FCPS getting rid of football or adding pickleball anytime soon, I'm pretty sure based on the number of high schoolers I know that get together to play pickleball just for fun, that Woodson could easily field a pickleball team.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:21     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
I saw the email yesterday about PB becoming a varsity sport. I don’t understand why it can’t be a club or a rec sport at high school. My kids are working hard to make varsity in their respective sports. It feels like an insult when some kid can take up pickleball and put down they play on a varsity sport on their college application. It’s not the same thing as years of intense playing, injuries and tryouts. What a joke.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:13     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
I predict that in FCPS, football will cease to exist at certain HS where the demographics won’t support one team, let alone fresh/jv/varsity.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 08:00     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:PB is another rich white & Asian sport, just like tennis or golf.

you literally need a plastic ball and two inexpensive paddles to play with on a free, public court. no lessons required, no stringing. it's as affordable as basketball.


Then please explain why I am not seeing a lot of POC playing PB. I play PB at Lewinsville park in McLean and East Potomac Center in DC and I rarely see black or Hispanic PB players. I only see either white or Asian PB players, young and old.


You are playing in McLean dear


That made me LOL!


Not many POC play PB. There are 76 PB courts in Fairfax County, and if you go to any of them at any given time, you rarely see POC and PB. That is unless you count Asians as POC. Go to any lifetime, Onelife, Village Pickle in Leesburg, PB in Tysons, and you hardly see any POC there play PB.

One thing about PB as a varsity sport in Montgomery, you can bet that 100% of team will be made up of tennis players that will also play varsity tennis in the spring. Anyone else will not stand a chance against them


Wait, when you go to areas that lack POC, you aren't seeing POC? That's really shocking
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 07:49     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:PB is another rich white & Asian sport, just like tennis or golf.

you literally need a plastic ball and two inexpensive paddles to play with on a free, public court. no lessons required, no stringing. it's as affordable as basketball.


Then please explain why I am not seeing a lot of POC playing PB. I play PB at Lewinsville park in McLean and East Potomac Center in DC and I rarely see black or Hispanic PB players. I only see either white or Asian PB players, young and old.


You are playing in McLean dear


That made me LOL!


Not many POC play PB. There are 76 PB courts in Fairfax County, and if you go to any of them at any given time, you rarely see POC and PB. That is unless you count Asians as POC. Go to any lifetime, Onelife, Village Pickle in Leesburg, PB in Tysons, and you hardly see any POC there play PB.

One thing about PB as a varsity sport in Montgomery, you can bet that 100% of team will be made up of tennis players that will also play varsity tennis in the spring. Anyone else will not stand a chance against them
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 07:35     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
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Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 06:45     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:Sad


Shouldn't you be focused on your campaign?
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 06:15     Subject: Re:Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
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Anonymous wrote:I mean not all sports have to be for traditional fit people. Ping pong is an Olympic sport so why not elevate pickleball I guess. At least the kids are playing outside.


I bet a ping pong player is more fit than you are.


Truth plus it’s harder
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 20:02     Subject: Re:Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:I mean not all sports have to be for traditional fit people. Ping pong is an Olympic sport so why not elevate pickleball I guess. At least the kids are playing outside.


I bet a ping pong player is more fit than you are.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 20:01     Subject: Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
Anonymous wrote:PB is another rich white & Asian sport, just like tennis or golf.


So? Are rich people not allowed to play sports?
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 19:49     Subject: Re:Pickleball will be a varsity HS sport
I mean not all sports have to be for traditional fit people. Ping pong is an Olympic sport so why not elevate pickleball I guess. At least the kids are playing outside.