Demoralizing you suck moment JV soccer

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XC is a great sport. Great workouts, usually a good team spirit, no dirty play, no VEO/Trace making them insecure the whole time, meets are held at beautiful sites in the fall and are over in roughly 30 minutes, objective results. I hope she has a blast. High school is a time to try new things.

Definitely seems like someone not cut out for club soccer if you are insecure about being insecure.

Hey, I get it. Putting yourself out there isn't easy and it's not for everyone.

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Definitely seems like someone not cut out for club soccer if you are insecure about being insecure.

Hey, I get it. Putting yourself out there isn't easy and it's not for everyone.

Says the guy posting about teenage girls on an anonymous site.

[Guest]

XC is a great sport. Great workouts, usually a good team spirit, no dirty play, no VEO/Trace making them insecure the whole time, meets are held at beautiful sites in the fall and are over in roughly 30 minutes, objective results. I hope she has a blast. High school is a time to try new things.

I hope so too! My older son did it and loved it!

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Says the guy posting about teenage girls on an anonymous site.

“So your source is, ‘Trust me, bro’?” Knowa snapped back.

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Definitely seems like someone not cut out for club soccer if you are insecure about being insecure.

Hey, I get it. Putting yourself out there isn't easy and it's not for everyone.

Why are you taking shots when it wasn’t warranted? Like how did we even get here?

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She decided to do xc until club starts. Playing jv on an awfulmgrass field isn’t appealing. They won every game last year with her leading goals. When she tries to talk to the coach she gets non answers. She’s a distributer not a barrel down the field sort. Quiet kid who doesn’t want the stress of dealing with this coach. The V team always underperforms.

Just curious...does she love playing soccer? Or does she just stick with club because it's what she's done for most of her life?

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Just curious...does she love playing soccer? Or does she just stick with club because it's what she's done for most of her life?

She likes it a lot, but honestly JV wasn’t challenging last year. Last season the jv coach would have to pull her and a few other starters off the field because the game was out of control lop sided. She’s played jv already 2 years. That isn’t fun.

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Can her JV coach talk to the varsity coach and vouch for her?

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XC and working on skills (or private training, or look around for a single season club team) doesn't sound like a bad option. Playing JV, even if it sucks, isn't bad either if there's a chance of making varsity next year. She could always play more selfishly there to work on her own dribbling skills in prep for next year.

Even if a coach "rarely subs," wouldn't they want the next best CM on the team/bench in case someone gets hurt? If a team asks outside backs to participate in the offense, they might get very tired - if her defense is decent she could ask to be at least a backup outside back. Basically, as a center mid, there should be a case to make that she has all-around abilities where she could get minutes at wing or outside back.

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XC and working on skills (or private training, or look around for a single season club team) doesn't sound like a bad option. Playing JV, even if it sucks, isn't bad either if there's a chance of making varsity next year. She could always play more selfishly there to work on her own dribbling skills in prep for next year.

Even if a coach "rarely subs," wouldn't they want the next best CM on the team/bench in case someone gets hurt? If a team asks outside backs to participate in the offense, they might get very tired - if her defense is decent she could ask to be at least a backup outside back. Basically, as a center mid, there should be a case to make that she has all-around abilities where she could get minutes at wing or outside back.

There's a good point...if she plays JV, coach will need to take her on varsity when she's a senior...but if she skips this season, she is pretty much giving up HS soccer.

In the end, tho, I agree that if she's not enjoying playing JV and varsity coach doesn't give her the option of joining the varsity team, probably not worth continuing with HS soccer.