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Date Posted: 13:39:43 03/13/25 Thu
In reply to:
Go Green
's message, "Happy to help!" on 12:49:42 03/13/25 Thu
Well, if she's struggling to make her high school varsity, I'm not going to be cutting recruiting videos to send to Division I coaches just yet.
*BUT* one of her teammates is definitely going to be playing in college someday, maybe even at a member of the Ivy League athletic conference, composed of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University.
This girl mentioned above you could tell when I coached her in first and second grade was going to be special. (I have a friend who produced with his wife three superstar athletes, whose names are all over the Ivy League record books. Two of them won the athlete of the year in their graduating classes. My friend has always said, "If you can't tell that a kid is truly special athletically by the time she is 13, she's not a Division I recruit.)
The more that I think about your first point, the more right I think you are.
One bad habit that my wife and I are often guilty of is thinking of our child as distinct from the team. I don't know how many times we've said, "The team lost, but you played well."
Guess what? This year, that stops.
The hidden blessing from playing on JV is that this team *WILL* be the responsibility of her and a small number of the better sophomores. They will win or lose based upon how well she plays.
There will be much less distinction between her personal play and the team's success.
I think that you hit the nail on the head.
When you're a freshman, it's very hard to be "the man" on any high school team. Next year as a junior, if she makes the varsity, she'll appropriately defer to the seniors because she's not a superstar.
This sophomore season is her time to practice being "the man" in preparation, in practice, and in games. And the first step in being "the man" is thinking that you SHOULD be "the man." This season on the JV is her time to do that.
Great post, GG. The best ever on this board.
I'm going to give her a GG pep talk tonight.
Plus, I will mention to her that Michael Jordan also was cut from his high school varsity. He went home and told his father that he was quitting basketball and his father James said, "Excellent. Every day you can come home early and help me work." And that is how the second greatest basketball career of all time was launched.
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