Are players allowed to play for Junior High Team and Travel?

[cencal]

My daughter told me the other day that any player that decides to play for a travel team will not be allowed to play for the Junior High School team. Apparently this is the word that is going around my daughters Junior High School. This is not coming from the travel team. My Daughter and several of her friends participated in try outs for travel ball for the upcoming 2011 season and made the team, now they are hearing that they will not be able to participate in both programs because they will "conflict" with one another.

I understand their are rules in place concerning High School players and "A" travel teams but what about Junior High School Players? Are there any rules in place that would prohibit a player from participating in both programs? Can an individual school and school district set their own policy?

The girls really want to play for both programs and are pretty bummed that they hearing they can't do both.

Any suggestions?

[bruinfans]

Have you talked to the school coach? Sounds like it is a personal rule-I'm not sure, but I didn't think junior high schools even fell under CIF regulations regarding dark periods.

And I would imagine that, yes, any school or district can set their own rules, if they don't conflict with state regulations.

But I could be wrong........

[cencal]

I have not talked to the coach yet. As far as I am concerned it may be just a rumor.

Does anyone have any experience with this through the high school ranks? How was your situation handled?

Does anyone know if there is information online to when it comes to participating in school sports and non-school sports in California pertaining to the mentioned situation?

[SoftballSoccerDad]

Aren't most of the junior high programs in NorCal slow-pitch softball? It's one of those weird quirks that no one I've spoken to understands. Some people cite insurance/safety concerns, but no one has given me a definitive answer on why this is the case.

School teams normally practice every weekday they don't have games and from what little I've seen and heard, it seems most of the players are girls who've either played rec softball or who are trying softball for the very first time. I don't want to discourage anyone from doing something they really want to do, but until the middle schools switch to fastpitch, I would have to assume that a majority of good fastpitch players will forego playing for their schools until high school.

[bring'nheat]

Local (Modesto / Oakdale) area junior high teams do play approximately twice a week and many of the games are played at Rainbow fields. If you look further into the teams that are participating, have on average 3-4 players that also play travel 'A' ball. Can tell you that several of these teams pitchers, are travel ball pitchers that also play ASA 'A' ball tournaments during the spring.
When DD was in junior high, the coach encouraged them to play travel ball. Now, high school is different as they cannot play concurrently High School & travel ball. But again, you will find many of the HS players also play travel ball during summer & fall seasons.
Hope this helps. May want further clarification from junior high coach as to the "rumor" or decision.
Good Luck

[cencal]

Well, it looks like it was a personal issue with the Junior High Coach, has since been resolved. Girls will be allowed to play for both. Turns out the Junior High only has an 8 game schedule

District superintendent told me CIF rules do not regulate Junior High Sports, that would fall under district and state rules, whatever those may be.