High School Ball

[hotwheels]

I don't think its a bad thing to shut down during the HS season, if it was uniform across the state. But its not and it puts San Diego travel teams at a big disadvantage when travel ball resumes after high school with very little time to prepare for National Qualifiers. I had roughly three weeks to prepare my team for State last year.

I brought this up because of the Adidas Futures showcase coming up. OC teams will get to practice before the tourney. SD teams cannot. My DD made an OC Adidas Futures team but b/c of this silly rule, will not get to practice with the team until the end of May.

Sounds like everyone agrees it is a silly rule. And I do believe it would not stand up in court, but do you risk your daughter's HS softball season to find out?

I do not think its a silly rule. I am glad the ADs have kept the rule in place this year in spite of heavy pressure from a few coaches.

As for disadvantaged, I hardly think so. TNL won ASA 16s, Fox's 16u Renegades finished 3rd at Premier. What disadvantage? The other SD teams just were not very good. Nothing unusual about that when many of the best players go north to play. Cant blame that on CIF.

We are seeing more overuse injuries because the kids play to much and dont get a chance to heal. They need a break.

For the most part, the issue is not CIF or Travel ball or whatever...Overuse is ocurring mostly because of their parents making them practice too much...Parents as a general rule these days have lost their freaking minds...Too much practice is hurting them. A simple ankle injury or an arm injury theses days takes 2 months to heal instead of 2 weeks for a sore arm like when we played...It is because the parents go crazy if their kid misses a pitching lesson or a hitting lesson one week...As if UCLA is going to skip right over you if you miss a week...I've had kids that have HAD to go lessons and they can't lift their arm! That's BS and it's because of the parents and not some CIF rule...

Now I'm sure a couple will post how their kid loves to practice 50 hours a week and take no days off...Go ahead, because you're fooling yourself...I promise!

[Southerncali]

I witnessed a girl on a travel team playing for her travel team in friendlies this past weekend, but when my daughter had a game this week that very same girl was on the mound pitching against us. How does CIF find out if the player is doing both? And if they do find out what is the punishement?

[Midwest]

Very interesting that you have different rules in your state for H.S. ball. Here in Illinois all T.B. in the state has to stop at the end of Feb. and a player can join their T.B. team ( when they have enough players to play ) after they are eliminated from the state tournament ( at end of May ).
Madman---We have the same problem at other H.S. that you have. In the Chicago area there are one or two teams they make up of T.P's. and travel to Iowa to play T.B. every few weekends. What I've been told it's like "B" ball. All top players play H.S.
If a T.B. team does happen to get togeather and are caught. The players are suspnded two weeks from H.S ball the first time. Not sure what happens after that. This happened last year to some players. Talking to others they said they have no problemn turning in other players if there breaking the rules.
The problem we have with this rule is the girls in 8th grade that play with the older 14's or 16's have to either join another team ( normally 14u "B" ) or just wait to join their team at the end of May.