Reminiscing: Did I deserve to be kicked off my high school track team during my senior year of HS 7 years ago?

No. You didn't deserve to be kicked off the team. Your coach sounds like an ahole. Just curious, did the other track team members at the party get kicked off as well?

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

No. You didn't deserve to be kicked off the team. Your coach sounds like an ahole. Just curious, did the other track team members at the party get kicked off as well?

No they did not; and the star distance runner was probably the one who had the most fun at the party.

I don't know what the requirements are for being on the team, as I made no attempt to join my school team but it seems as though you broke some rules or other. I just don't see why you couldn't run without the team knowing about it. I did. I never even met the coach. Yet I trained and raced more than I do now and was reasonably successful. I had the self esteem and feeling of worth you mention and look back on those years (mainly sophomore and junior but I don't see that as any different to your situation) with the best of memories, at least for the running part.

So although the coach's stance may or may not be justified, it seems crystal clear to me - and this is from my own experience - that being off the team is no impediment to running success. In fact I believe, as does many an A-list high schooler today, that being ON the team is a hadicap.

Why was this a problem??

It was a tough lesson for you with no positive outcome in your growth so the coach failed. Was the he within his rights? Yup. Did you deserve it. No. Some type of punishment or counseling would have been in order, but loss of your senior season seems harsh.

If you skated through school with less than impressive results, go back, apply yourself and earn an MS in a useful field. 27 is still not too late to start a succesful career.

I mean, I wasn't a star or anything like that, and only scored at one rinky dink track meet my entire high school career, so she could afford to kick me off I guess.

Not shocked in the least that you, and people who support you, make up the majority of the posters on this forum. No wonder this place blows.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

Did I deserve to be kicked off my high school track team during my senior year of HS 7 years ago?

Yes

Then get the hell out. No one is forcing you to post here.

yes, you absolutely deserved to be kicked off the team. You openly admit what you did was dangerous. Guess what, it was also illegal. At the private high school I went to, you would have been expelled. You're lucky the worst thing that happened was getting kicked off a school team, had someone gotten hurt you would have faced jail time. Maybe you should reminisce about how you could have done the right thing instead of how cool you perceive yourself to have been at 18.

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Not the correct move by the coach but within his rights. Maybe you were the example that made the team more disciplined for the following years.

That said, get over it. If you blame all you unhappiness on this one incident you have other issues that need to be examined. Move on.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

No. You didn't deserve to be kicked off the team. Your coach sounds like an ahole. Just curious, did the other track team members at the party get kicked off as well?

No they did not; and the star distance runner was probably the one who had the most fun at the party.

Was the star runner Bobby Curtis? Know 100% for a fact that the high school he went to had a zero tolerance policy for parties/drinking and he went to one. Coach could not kick good old Bobby off the team given how good he was. Few of the scrub JV guys took the hit.

Edward Teach wrote:

yes, you absolutely deserved to be kicked off the team. You openly admit what you did was dangerous. Guess what, it was also illegal. At the private high school I went to, you would have been expelled. You're lucky the worst thing that happened was getting kicked off a school team, had someone gotten hurt you would have faced jail time. Maybe you should reminisce about how you could have done the right thing instead of how cool you perceive yourself to have been at 18.

I have a feeling you never got invited to any high school parties.

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Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

Then get the hell out. No one is forcing you to post here.

Well, you asked for opinions, did you not. Please define the opinion restrictions the next time you seek "professional" help on this forum.

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I was even able to cover, and my parents never found out

So your coach hears you had a party and throws you off the team without calling the parents? Didn't your parents go to meets or ask about your meets? What'd you do to hide out after school? You said you moped around a bunch, parents never asked you about this?

You were kicked off the team because you were slow. You were sucking up team time and resources. The party was just the excuse the coach was waiting for.

Your coach can have whatever standards he wants. If he wants to have a clean team, then he can have it. But you shouldn't have been the only one kicked out for that reasoning. Everyone on your team who went should have been sent packing.