Play High School or Not?

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My DD (freshman) is on the fence about playing on her HS team. Several years ago the HS had a big shake up with the coaches leaving and the asst coach becoming varsity coach. Last year the varsity team was 1-19-1 (yes, 19 losses). DD is on the fence, on the one hand could give her alot of play time and experience.... on the other hand how much fun is it to lose that much and then there's the potential for injury too.

Thoughts? Has anyone's DD or DS had this situation? how did it turn out?

Thanks
 
Hasn’t your team already had tryouts and team announcements?
If she tried out, made the team and accepted the spot- she should play.
Because there’s probably a heartbroken kid that didn’t make the team and would have been the next player chosen if your daughter hadn’t been offered the spot.
 
Hasn’t your team already had tryouts and team announcements?
If she tried out, made the team and accepted the spot- she should play.
Because there’s probably a heartbroken kid that didn’t make the team and would have been the next player chosen if your daughter hadn’t been offered the spot.
Don't know where the OP is from, but in CIFSD, high school tryouts are next week.
 
Hasn’t your team already had tryouts and team announcements?
If she tried out, made the team and accepted the spot- she should play.
Because there’s probably a heartbroken kid that didn’t make the team and would have been the next player chosen if your daughter hadn’t been offered the spot.
Tryouts are over the next few weeks.
 
My DD (freshman) is on the fence about playing on her HS team. Several years ago the HS had a big shake up with the coaches leaving and the asst coach becoming varsity coach. Last year the varsity team was 1-19-1 (yes, 19 losses). DD is on the fence, on the one hand could give her alot of play time and experience.... on the other hand how much fun is it to lose that much and then there's the potential for injury too.

Thoughts? Has anyone's DD or DS had this situation? how did it turn out?

Thanks
My DD will play for her school regardless of records, who is the coach, and any other possible distractions. HS Varsity sports are about representing the school and play for the pride of the school.

Don't let any of the outside negativity take that away.
 
My DD will play for her school regardless of records, who is the coach, and any other possible distractions. HS Varsity sports are about representing the school and play for the pride of the school.

Don't let any of the outside negativity take that away.

If you play for your high school team, you wear your team jersey to classes on big game days and fellow students will usually express home-team support.

If you play for a DA team, you can wear your team jersey every day and no one will care.
 
My DD (freshman) is on the fence about playing on her HS team. Several years ago the HS had a big shake up with the coaches leaving and the asst coach becoming varsity coach. Last year the varsity team was 1-19-1 (yes, 19 losses). DD is on the fence, on the one hand could give her alot of play time and experience.... on the other hand how much fun is it to lose that much and then there's the potential for injury too.

Thoughts? Has anyone's DD or DS had this situation? how did it turn out?

Thanks

There is always the potential for injury, which should not be a factor unless she has a Letter of Intent from a good University.

As @coachsamy stated above, the intrinsic value of playing for your school team isn't wins/losses, its the camaraderie that flows from playing with her classmates and upper classmates. Its walking down the halls between classes as a Freshman and having the Juniors and Seniors recognize you and invite you to pizza after the game.

My son is a sophomore.

Last year, before HS soccer he was waffling about continuing soccer, the grind of club soccer just wasn't as fun. He nonetheless tried out and made the JV team (over the Frosh/Soph) and was the only Freshman to get the call up for the playoff run. He loved it. HS soccer renewed his love for the game and exposed him to kids that he would have never met.

This year he is on Varsity and fighting for the starting GK position against the 6'5" senior (my boy is 6'3"). Will he beat him out? Don't know and don't care because the intrinsic benefit of playing HS soccer isn't development, its rounding out your HS experience.
 
She can always tryout to get a feel for the coach and the team and then decide. She could even decide to quit the team at a later time if the atmosphere is toxic.
 
If you play for your high school team, you wear your team jersey to classes on big game days and fellow students will usually express home-team support.

If you play for a DA team, you can wear your team jersey every day and no one will care.
At my kids HS you are not allowed to wear any hat or jersey except the schools. Kinda lame...
 
My DD (freshman) is on the fence about playing on her HS team. Several years ago the HS had a big shake up with the coaches leaving and the asst coach becoming varsity coach. Last year the varsity team was 1-19-1 (yes, 19 losses). DD is on the fence, on the one hand could give her alot of play time and experience.... on the other hand how much fun is it to lose that much and then there's the potential for injury too.

Thoughts? Has anyone's DD or DS had this situation? how did it turn out?

Thanks
The only thing I wpuld be hesitant about is if she is on the Frosh/Soph team. The fields that they play on are truly bad, filled with gopher holes, sprinkler heads and are just in overall bad shape.... wait... I think those are some of the same fields we get to play on in league.
 
The only thing I wpuld be hesitant about is if she is on the Frosh/Soph team. The fields that they play on are truly bad, filled with gopher holes, sprinkler heads and are just in overall bad shape.... wait... I think those are some of the same fields we get to play on in league.
But at least those fields are natural grass and overall safer than the typical poorly maintained school district synthetic field.
 
My daughter is freshman played summer league and made JV for the year. The summer freshman soccer was bad-not great soccer and not great fields. She had a few players she played with that said if they didn’t make JV or higher as a freshman they were quitting. I was really proud of her she said She wouldn’t quit that she wanted to play Jv or varsity but would play wherever they put her. Said playing for her school and being part of something that connected her with her high school were very important to her. Oh, and that summer league? Made her a different, better player for her club team....I don’t think it is anything that could’ve been coached...she was able to read the game differently, react differently and apply it to her club team. I am hoping the high school season goes really well for her knee bursitis and all.....
 
Hmmm... I can see an informal Senior project to see what you could get away with, attacking the definition of "jersey", for instance.
It's done for the saftey of the kids. Heck.. my kids couldn't even wear a jersey with their Uncles name on it or my old Baseball jersey from HS.
 
But at least those fields are natural grass and overall safer than the typical poorly maintained school district synthetic field.
Would MUCH rather have my kids play on natural grass but some of these natural grass fields that the Frosh/Soph teams will play on are after thoughts. Before it was redone my oldest daughter practiced at Palomar... probably the worst turf field I ever saw.
 
Lots of good stuff comes out of playing high school that benefits soccer: renewed passion for the game, confidence making JV or Varisty as a freshman. Playing with older kids. New friends. Weekends off, mostly! No regular PE! She can always do it a year and then decide not to go back. Good luck
 
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