Anonymous
03/10/2025 10:53
Subject: Re:Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Our FCPS school has five freshmen on varsity. They all belong there.
Anonymous
03/10/2025 10:53
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
I just checked some of local schools out of curiosity. freshman on varsity are very unusual!
West Springfield: 13 freshman on JV, 1 on Varsity
Fairfax: 9 freshmen on JV, none on Varsity
South Lakes: 18 freshman on JV, 2 on varsity
Chantilly: 12 freshmen on JV, none on Varsity
Oakton: 8 freshman on JV, none on Varsity
Robinson, 11 on JV, 1 on Varsity
Lake Braddock: 7 on JV, 1 on varsity
West Springfield: 13 freshman on JV, 1 on Varsity
Fairfax: 9 freshmen on JV, none on Varsity
South Lakes: 18 freshman on JV, 2 on varsity
Chantilly: 12 freshmen on JV, none on Varsity
Oakton: 8 freshman on JV, none on Varsity
Robinson, 11 on JV, 1 on Varsity
Lake Braddock: 7 on JV, 1 on varsity
Anonymous
03/10/2025 10:39
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:I use to coach HS Varsity soccer and I could care less if you were a Freshman or Senior. I took the best 25 or so players I saw during tryouts. The school/county didn't give me quotas regarding grade year. Parents don't like seeing a senior get cut or sit on the bench while a freshman plays, but if you are good enough you are good enough.
I mean, this is about how many freshman make it on JV, but OK.
Anonymous
03/10/2025 10:35
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:Lots of juniors on JV as well. Is this the norm?
What HS? What's the big deal.
Anonymous
03/10/2025 10:32
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
I use to coach HS Varsity soccer and I could care less if you were a Freshman or Senior. I took the best 25 or so players I saw during tryouts. The school/county didn't give me quotas regarding grade year. Parents don't like seeing a senior get cut or sit on the bench while a freshman plays, but if you are good enough you are good enough.
Anonymous
03/09/2025 15:37
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Depends on the size of the school. My DS's school (3A in size) graduates 13 seniors from a combined V/JV roster of 35 on this year's team. Not only will freshman (current 8th graders) make JV next year but at least two will play V in the fall.
Now, at the neighboring 5A school, many of my DS's former club teammates will be stuck on JV until at least 11th grade.
Now, at the neighboring 5A school, many of my DS's former club teammates will be stuck on JV until at least 11th grade.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 11:24
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
At our school only 2-3 freshman made the JV team when my son was a freshman. And one of the 2-3 actually shouldn’t have even been alllpwed to play HS because he was on one of those ultra competitive travel teams that usually forbids it—he had to get some special waiver. There were like 70 kids at the tryout. It’s brutal out there for boys soccer.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 11:16
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:No soccer green days at our large fcps either
We really didn’t rather but that was due to all the snow. They kept getting canceled.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 10:41
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
This is where many kids stop playing. Remember pay to play keeps a lot of kids in sports.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 09:57
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Yes. MCPS.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 09:38
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:So the vhsl rule for green days is that they have to be open to anyone. My guess is that boys soccer green days would be so crowded that they would be pointless, so they don't do them.
this is why our large FCPS HS doesn't do soccer green days. they have 150+ boys try out for soccer. Any green day would be so crowded it would be pointless.
Anonymous
03/07/2025 20:29
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the norm is to be cut as a freshman, and then come back and make the team as a sophomore?
Huh?
Well, if only 5 freshman make any team, than they must take a bunch of sophomores/juniors who didn't make the teams previously as freshmen. Mathematically.
Your logic is way off. Freshman do not only have to be on the JV team. They can also be on varsity. The next year it could be a team of all freshmen for all you know there is no limit to five. I don’t know why you’re being so stringent
about that number.
Or both! Mine started JV and joined varsity for playoffs in freshman year.
Anonymous
03/07/2025 20:28
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:Not having a horse in the race it seems like the school is relying on club soccer to develop the kids versus reserving JV for freshman and sophomore's to develop into varsity players as it was when I grew up.
Most definitely true.
Anonymous
03/07/2025 19:30
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the norm is to be cut as a freshman, and then come back and make the team as a sophomore?
Huh?
Well, if only 5 freshman make any team, than they must take a bunch of sophomores/juniors who didn't make the teams previously as freshmen. Mathematically.
Your logic is way off. Freshman do not only have to be on the JV team. They can also be on varsity. The next year it could be a team of all freshmen for all you know there is no limit to five. I don’t know why you’re being so stringent about that number.
Anonymous
03/07/2025 19:28
Subject: Is it normal for only 5 freshman boys to make the JV team at a very large public hs?
Anonymous wrote:At our MCPS there were only freshman and sophomores on JV, although all 4 grades could be on Varsity (rare for the lower two grades but it happened). Our boys JV team was pretty evenly split between freshmen and sophomores.
Should add that more than 100 boys tried out for the the team, not counting returning players. So it was still hyper competitive.