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Your kid doesn't get enough playing time? No problem, just sue the league.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:05 am
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:05 am
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When Audrey Dimitrew won a spot on a club volleyball team in Chantilly, Va., the 16-year-old hoped to impress varsity coaches and possibly college coaches. But when her coach benched her and the league told her she couldn’t join another team, the action shifted from one court to another — she and her family sued.
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“It would be really heartbreaking not to play,” Audrey said. “I would be losing a big part of my life.”
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The lawsuit is one of a number filed across the country in recent years as families have increasingly turned to the courts to intervene in youth sports disputes. Parents upset that their children have been cut, benched, yelled at by coaches or even fouled too hard are asking judges to referee.
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Some experts see such lawsuits as part of a shift in youth sports in recent decades away from sandlot play and intramural teams to professionalized leagues and tryout teams partly aimed at snagging scholarships for players and giving them a leg up in college admissions.
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“Youth sports is not just about orange slices and kids running free,” said Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Project Play and author of a book on the topic. “It’s about aggregating talent in as elite a setting as possible so that your kid can receive a reward at 17 or 18.”
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In 2013, a father in the suburbs of Philadelphia sued his son’s high school track coach for $40 million after the teen was cut. The man claimed his son’s chances of getting a college scholarship were badly damaged.
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The competition has pushed kids to specialize in sports younger and parents to look for early advantages. There is now an under-8 national championship in basketball. A Colorado
company markets a $169 test that will determine a child’s genetic predisposition to strength or endurance sports. Another makes athletic training videos for 6-month-olds.
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Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:06 am to classictiger
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In 2013, a father in the suburbs of Philadelphia sued his son’s high school track coach for $40 million after the teen was cut.
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The man claimed his son’s chances of getting a college scholarship were badly damaged.
then get good grades idiot.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:09 am to classictiger
shite like this seriously makes me angry.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:13 am to classictiger
That is retarded, but why not just "cut" her and let her join another team?
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:15 am to classictiger
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But when her coach benched her and the league told her she couldn’t join another team
What the frick is this shite?
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:26 am to tigerpimpbot
It's probably a USA Volleyball regional team.
You can't just sign up for one team, not like the result and just start playing for another team during the same season.
This is there to protect the other players, coaches and other clubs. Coaches can't transfer either, or club personnel.
Players and families know full well what the transfer rules are for joining these clubs, and forms are signed ALL the time. This isn't a case of their not knowing.
You can't just sign up for one team, not like the result and just start playing for another team during the same season.
This is there to protect the other players, coaches and other clubs. Coaches can't transfer either, or club personnel.
Players and families know full well what the transfer rules are for joining these clubs, and forms are signed ALL the time. This isn't a case of their not knowing.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:27 am to classictiger
More reasons why I will never coach youth sports
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:30 am to classictiger
fricking Chantilly people. Another reason why my son went to Oakton High.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:31 am to LSUBoo
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That is retarded, but why not just "cut" her and let her join another team?
Well same lawyer would attempt to get you on discrimination
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:32 am to VABuckeye
coach told her she had college level skills but wasn't ready to play for the team?
someone is lieing. Either the coach or the parents for saying that in the suit.
someone is lieing. Either the coach or the parents for saying that in the suit.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:35 am to LSUBoo
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That is retarded, but why not just "cut" her and let her join another team?
The other team that she would join is already full and the playing time of others that are paying for that team would suffer. The players on the new team only agreed to play for that team because they knew they would get playing time, the coach only agreed to coach that team because he knew he had the right balance of personnel to be competitive AND still have valuable playing time for each member, and the club offered this team for the same reasons as the coach.
The contract is there to protect each individual part of the equation, more importantly the other players already on that team.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:36 am to KosmoCramer
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KosmoCramer
You're needed in the mock draft thread
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:58 am to classictiger
Too many parents trying to live their lives through their kids. It's a joke.
So sit a more talented player to make mom and dad happy? And so you don't ruin her dreams and take away a big part of her life?
Go practice your game and EARN it. This is a great life lesson being taught to this girl by her parents. Sad sad sad
So sit a more talented player to make mom and dad happy? And so you don't ruin her dreams and take away a big part of her life?
Go practice your game and EARN it. This is a great life lesson being taught to this girl by her parents. Sad sad sad
Posted on 4/1/15 at 11:03 am to classictiger
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“Youth sports is not just about orange slices and kids running free,” said Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Project Play and author of a book on the topic. “It’s about aggregating talent in as elite a setting as possible so that your kid can receive a reward at 17 or 18.”
Yea...no.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 11:08 am to KosmoCramer
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The other team that she would join is already full and the playing time of others that are paying for that team would suffer.
So, the other team's parents paid for their girls to play. But that would be interrupted by this girl going to their team because she paid, but is not getting to play? Sounds like the money grubbing travel team pulled a bait and switch.
This post was edited on 4/1/15 at 11:09 am
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