Cape Ann League Freshman Teams

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The Cape Ann League has it in there rules that upper classman are allowed to play Freshman sports.

6. Freshman Teams may use sophomores providing you have a minimum of Freshman equal to the number necessary to play and they make u the majority of the team. Home AD must notify visiting AD whenever doing this.

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The Cape Ann League has it in there rules that upper classman are allowed to play Freshman sports.

6. Freshman Teams may use sophomores providing you have a minimum of Freshman equal to the number necessary to play and they make u the majority of the team. Home AD must notify visiting AD whenever doing this.

Different kind of post for this site. Most would say who cares my kid started varsity as a 8th grader.
If you have to have enough freshman to play the game / have a team wouldn't the motive only be to win?

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and your point is? First, sophomores are not considered upperclassmen, only juniors and seniors. The notification to the other school is fair. I'm sure the rule was created so that schools could field freshmen teams. Some might not have quite enough for a decent sized roster, yet have too many freshmen to lump them all into a JV team. We're not in that area but our school's JV teams had grown to 35+. They started doing freshmen teams a few years ago but just last year barely had enough. Tossing in three sophomores would have helped.

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and your point is? First, sophomores are not considered upperclassmen, only juniors and seniors. The notification to the other school is fair. I'm sure the rule was created so that schools could field freshmen teams. Some might not have quite enough for a decent sized roster, yet have too many freshmen to lump them all into a JV team. We're not in that area but our school's JV teams had grown to 35+. They started doing freshmen teams a few years ago but just last year barely had enough. Tossing in three sophomores would have helped.

Maybe next year they can do the same for collage kids playing down on varsity teams.

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and your point is? First, sophomores are not considered upperclassmen, only juniors and seniors. The notification to the other school is fair. I'm sure the rule was created so that schools could field freshmen teams. Some might not have quite enough for a decent sized roster, yet have too many freshmen to lump them all into a JV team. We're not in that area but our school's JV teams had grown to 35+. They started doing freshmen teams a few years ago but just last year barely had enough. Tossing in three sophomores would have helped.

I applaud this rule. Some leagues refer to them as 3rd team rather than freshman. Our town is now in its 2nd year without a Freshman team. Not because it is unpopular, because it is too competitive. There are no recent examples of a freshmen team player eventually making Varsity. So if they don't make JV, the freshmen quit and switch to a sport with future Varsity potential. Be nice to still have an option and a culture where those that just want to play, can still choose to.

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Maybe next year they can do the same for collage kids playing down on varsity teams.

so they can make COLLAGES together?

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Freshman sports are for freshman.
Make two jv teams and play a jv schedule not jv against freshman.

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Freshman sports are for freshman.
Make two jv teams and play a jv schedule not jv against freshman.

Most of the Catholic Conference schools actually have two freshman teams in many sports and have full schedules for both of them.

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and your point is? First, sophomores are not considered upperclassmen, only juniors and seniors. The notification to the other school is fair. I'm sure the rule was created so that schools could field freshmen teams. Some might not have quite enough for a decent sized roster, yet have too many freshmen to lump them all into a JV team. We're not in that area but our school's JV teams had grown to 35+. They started doing freshmen teams a few years ago but just last year barely had enough. Tossing in three sophomores would have helped.

This is exactly the reason, some of the CAL Small schools are really tiny, grad classes around 60 boys some years....

That said some of those schools (Essex, Rockport, some of the Vokes) do pretty well, partly because their Frosh got to play....

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The smaller schools do not have freshman teams.
Amesbury, Georgetown, Ipswich, Rockport, Triton do not have girls or boys freshman teams.
Manchester/Essex, Newburyport boys only.
Hamilton/Wenham, Lynnfield, Masconomet, North Reading, Pentucket have boys and girls.
Triton and Georgetown have middle school waivers for 8th graders to play JV.

The only school I know of that plays older kids on freshman teams is Pentucket.
They have cut freshman placed some on JV and Varsity then played older kids on freshman teams they call JV2.

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I don't see any harm as long as they follow the rule to tell the other side. It gives smaller schools a chance to field teams they might not be able to otherwise. Better to have a frosh team 80% frosh then have all them sitting on huge JV bench waiting for 10 minutes of play. Results don't count at this level any way and it's not like they're playing for state chamipnships

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This is exactly the reason, some of the CAL Small schools are really tiny, grad classes around 60 boys some years....

That said some of those schools (Essex, Rockport, some of the Vokes) do pretty well, partly because their Frosh got to play....

Sorry they have dropped their freshman teams, I guess interest is declining there; Manchester and Zrockpot used to have a great rivalry perhaps 10 years ago, school teams and ECYSA.

Does the CAL still play as 3 divisions (large, small, tiny)?

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I applaud this rule. Some leagues refer to them as 3rd team rather than freshman. Our town is now in its 2nd year without a Freshman team. Not because it is unpopular, because it is too competitive. There are no recent examples of a freshmen team player eventually making Varsity. So if they don't make JV, the freshmen quit and switch to a sport with future Varsity potential. Be nice to still have an option and a culture where those that just want to play, can still choose to.

We call it a Reserve team. It's really not a big deal. It absolutely beats huge jv rosters and having a bench full of kids who rarely see any play time.

Some parents complain from other schools about sophomores being on our team (as opposed to only freshmen) but honestly... you're a loser if you complain about that. There is one year difference and these sophomores are players who didn't make the jv team.... And if they are bigger, stronger and/or better than your freshmen (by simple virtue of one year age difference) then you should be happy that your freshmen team is getting a good competitive game to prepare them for the older age groups.

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We call it a Reserve team. It's really not a big deal. It absolutely beats huge jv rosters and having a bench full of kids who rarely see any play time.

Some parents complain from other schools about sophomores being on our team (as opposed to only freshmen) but honestly... you're a loser if you complain about that. There is one year difference and these sophomores are players who didn't make the jv team.... And if they are bigger, stronger and/or better than your freshmen (by simple virtue of one year age difference) then you should be happy that your freshmen team is getting a good competitive game to prepare them for the older age groups.

That's really what it should be about - having kids play! Not worrying about a freshman game score because they have a few sophomores on the squad

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Sorry they have dropped their freshman teams, I guess interest is declining there; Manchester and Zrockpot used to have a great rivalry perhaps 10 years ago, school teams and ECYSA.

Does the CAL still play as 3 divisions (large, small, tiny)?

Now back to just large/small, I don't recall if it was changed when Masco dropped out, or when MIAA went to 4 divisions