Got kicked off my track team..

*First meet.

Sorry left that out

lesson learned? deal with authority better next time. yelling at a boss or teacher or parent might feel great at that second, but it is almost never worth it.

no, you can't choose which school to compete for.

if you want to be on your team you have to show the coach somehow that you deserve a second chance. I'll leave that to you, but sincerity goes a long way.

You can always train on your own and show up unattached, but not at hs races - more like all-comers meets and road races.

I should of worded that better i knew people would assume things. There was absolutely no yelling it was mainly a discussion but he didn't give me a chance to do anything, he had his mind made up before i even showed up to practice.

Two answer your two questions:

1. I can not think of a single state in which you would be allowed to attend one school and compete for another. This is likely impossible.

2. Transfer rules likely vary from state to state. In my state, transferring without changing physical residences results in a 365 day suspension of athletic participation.

Your best option is to apologize sincerely to the coach for getting into a verbal argument and plead for your acceptance back onto the team.

If you really want on the team bad enough, have your parents call the principal, put up a fuss, and have the AD and coach cave under that pressure. It sucks that that will actually work, but we all know it would.

Bottom line, you messed up and you're paying the price for it. You thought you could get into an argument with an authority figure and pay no consequences, but that's not how it works.

I don't understand. You seem to be implying that the coach doesn't like you because you can keep up with his *star* XC runner. I don't know any coach that's would love to have two *star* runners. Is there more to the story?

I agree with the guy agip. I've messed up w/ authority a lot in my life, and I've found that the best way to deal with it is to apologize and ask for a second chance. I probably had the most fun running while in high school, and you don't want to miss out on it b/c of a disagreement w/ a coach. I guarantee that if you apologize to his face and your sincere he'll let you back on the team.

Apologize and ask to be let back. If this doesn't work, go over his head. If your story is correct (even though I doubt it is), he didn't have much of a reason to kick you off. I assume you're in HS, so get your parents to call the athletics director.

your the one to blame! man up! and b1tching like a little a girl to the coach is not helping, and i think theirs more to the story, cause i did worse s6hit than this and never got kicked :)

I agree with everyone else. Regardless of what happened, you need to apologize to the coach, admit you handled the situation poorly and that running for your school is something you've worked very hard for and is very important to you. Ask if there's anything you can do to work your way back on to the team. If he says 'yes' - learn your lesson, check your unjustifiably insolent pride and don't screw up again. If he says no, document your version of the situation and all interactions, escalate it to your parents and let them talk to the coach. If they get nowhere with him then go to the AD, then finally to the principal if necessary.

I coach at a middle school and even at that level we have a very clear set of rules, consequences and incident escalation to which my athletes and parents must agree in order to participate. I suggest you urge your school's AD to implement something similar.

Then you haven't had to deal with many bad coaches. Mine in particular hates when his two favorites get beaten in practice or in a race.

punkymoo is in his first year, keeps up with the "star" and already knows about tempos, speed work, long runs, and knows he is in 1:58/4:30 shape? punkymoo is either a very quick learner or............

You can try apologizing. If that doesn't work, you will be left with running on your own and racing unattached at all-comer type meets. You won't be able to run HS races "unattached", as tempting as that might be.

If you decide to transfer, be sure to check the state's rules permitting subsequent competition. Some states ban kids from competing for a full year after a mid-year transfer, but allow immediate eligibility if they transfer during the summer. I don't know how easily it is to transfer either - will you need to move into the neighboring district? or can you just apply to transfer in?

One other thought - what is the rule for competing if you are home schooled? In our state, you can compete for any school within your neighborhood's district. If both schools are within the district, you'd be okay to run for either.

Each state has different rules and I don't think they are very consistent. I know a kid (not a good athlete) who competed for our tiny school, then transferred to the big public school - did not even try to compete there - and then transferred back at the end of the year --- and she had to sit out an entire year plus and never got to compete again. Other kids have transferred from public schools to private mid-year and gotten to compete. So, you'd better check that out. Another kid had been home-schooled and practiced with a team she thought was within her district - it wasn't and the school that was in her district complained and she had to sit out a year (ultimately moving and transferring to a different district altogether) I had a kid who was home schooled his last year and still competed for us because our school was within the attendance boundaries where he lived (along with 2-3 other schools, some of which were closer).

Good luck. Having a poor coach (if he really is a poor coach) sucks, but if you stick with it, you'll have other races later in life.

munkypoo wrote:

I should of worded that better i knew people would assume things.

Here's some advice. On LetsRun, you need to know that you're speaking with people that possess an intelligence only slightly above most animals. Unless you word things *very explicitly*, they are always going to assume something (too literally) that any normal person would immediately grasp.

sue the coach.

Apologize and claim you have recently been diagnosed with Asperger's-- your not adept at ready faces and have trouble with authority/social situations. Would it be possible for you to run the meets while training on your own as part of a special education I.E.P you are filing?

Good as gold. Train on your own and smoke his star like a Pall Mall.

Adam C wrote:

I don't understand. You seem to be implying that the coach doesn't like you because you can keep up with his *star* XC runner. I don't know any coach that's would love to have two *star* runners. Is there more to the story?

Exactly what I thought right away.

Sounds like the OP is full of himself and has delusion about others' view of him.

Kid: Apologize to the coach. If you possess the ability, express some understanding of the position you put him in. He will probably take you back.

If like you say he's got a personal issue with you, and won't take you back in spite of a SINCERE apology, then go over his head to the principal. Yes, do it through your parents. If the story is REALLY as you tell it, you will end up back on the team. Nobody wants to keep a young kid from a character-building sport because of a few poorly-chosen words they apologized for.

BUT, if you've said or done something beyond what you're telling us, which I'm betting is the case, and if your coach documented it, you'd get pretty embarrassed by the whole process, so maybe you won't do that?

Sounds like this kid got hurt, then dropped off the face of the earth for 2 weeks and expects to hop right back into things. That 'ain't how it works, buddy! You can't just stop showing up to practice out of the blue, even if you are hurt.

Tell your parents to call the athletic director.

hjiuh877hn wrote:

Sounds like this kid got hurt, then dropped off the face of the earth for 2 weeks and expects to hop right back into things. That 'ain't how it works, buddy! You can't just stop showing up to practice out of the blue, even if you are hurt.

THIS!