What should I do if I was cut from the team? Will it affect my college applications? I am the only four year senior currently on the team. I skipped practice Friday in order to practice hills on my own. It is the first practice I skipped but my coach said I already have two strikes during summer conditioning for not showing up. Any suggestions?
Please help, I am really desperate and have dedicated a lot into running...
You are going to have to meet with your coach about it. If that doesn't work have your parents go to your school's principal and raise hell. Cut from the team is too drastic a punishment. At most, coach should have you sitting out a meet.
Are there written policies regarding these rules & situations including sanctions for violations of team rules? Were parents made aware of the rules & consequences?
Why did you feel the need to practice on your own? Did you discuss with your coach?
Why would being cut from a team have any impact on your applications?
I am going to guess that there might be more to this story...
Hand write a letter of apology to team & coach
Be a man. Do not involve your mommy & daddy!
Being cut from the team sounds like the correct punishment for, "I skipped practice Friday in order to practice hills on my own."
It is the wrong time of year to be doing hills. Even if you can convince me hills were not a bad idea, they were not so important that you needed to skip. You do not know more than your coach and you are undermining his authority.
It will not change your college application. You can still put 4 years of XC. It might alter a college coach's opinion about if you should be allowed to walk on.
You must suck or just be a huge headache, but still.. act like a grown @ssed man and meet with your coach one on one.
My guess is your teammates feel it was the correct punishment.
Skipping practice to "practice on your own" shows extreme arrogance and disrespect.
You should take up synchronized swimming, you humongous p#ssy.
geetar wrote:
You must suck or just be a huge headache, but still.. act like a grown @ssed man and meet with your coach one on one.
You people never cease to amaze me. This kid is in high school and many of you are telling him to "act like a grown [expletive deleted] man." None of us fit that description in high school. Not one person in the history of the world.
To the OP, talk with your parents and arrange a meeting with your coach. Talk to them about anytime your coach may have mentioned that you were in some way approaching dismissal from the team. (Assuming this occurred...)
Prior to that, detail reasons for any missed team events as well as instances where you may have gone above and beyond what is asked of you as a team member. Some examples - Assisting with meet set-up / tear-down, transportation of team members / supplies, organization of team events possibly including: meals, morning/recovery runs, team building activities, and so on. My guess is that over the last 4 years you have done a few of the things mentioned.
Meet with the coach and try to work something out; it was a one time thing. If that doesn't work and the coach is still bluffing about the "summer conditioning," go talk to the Athletic Director. Most states do not allow organized practices, coaching or anything during the summer. If that's the case, the AD should be brought into the conversation to discuss the school's policies and your coach trying to exact consequences for expectations that aren't allowed.
Also, don't skip practice.
If I'm the coach I'd have much less respect for the kiddo that comes walking in with mommy & daddy in tow because he broke team rules and got himself cut, over a young man that came to me alone, hat in hand, and asked to be back on the team.
geetar wrote:
If I'm the coach I'd have much less respect for the kiddo that comes walking in with mommy & daddy in tow because he broke team rules and got himself cut, over a young man that came to me alone, hat in hand, and asked to be back on the team.
If I'm a concerned parent that believes this punishment to be extreme, I have then most likely lost trust in the coach's judgment when dealing with my child one on one.
Lib Rules wrote:
geetar wrote:If I'm the coach I'd have much less respect for the kiddo that comes walking in with mommy & daddy in tow because he broke team rules and got himself cut, over a young man that came to me alone, hat in hand, and asked to be back on the team.
If I'm a concerned parent that believes this punishment to be extreme, I have then most likely lost trust in the coach's judgment when dealing with my child one on one.
End result: you show up and brow beat me, the kid stays off my team.
Young man approaches me in a manner that shows that he is taking responsibility, he's back on.
Have fun walking your little lovely to his first day of college class, be sure to meet with his professors.
geetar wrote:
Lib Rules wrote:If I'm a concerned parent that believes this punishment to be extreme, I have then most likely lost trust in the coach's judgment when dealing with my child one on one.
End result: you show up and brow beat me, the kid stays off my team.
Young man approaches me in a manner that shows that he is taking responsibility, he's back on.
Have fun walking your little lovely to his first day of college class, be sure to meet with his professors.
Classic response. How many times have you heard of an educator that wished parents were less involved? My guess is that when compared to the number of times educators wished that parents were involved, it would be minuscule.
Brow beat? That's an assumption. How about we have a conversation among the adults. To think that a child cannot take responsibility for their actions while others are around is obtuse.
In both your and my defense, we still don't know if this kid received any type of warning previously... If he didn't, then dismissal from the team is not an acceptable punishment. It doesn't work like that in the "real world," so why would it on this team?
Blahbaba wrote:
My guess is your teammates feel it was the correct punishment.
Skipping practice to "practice on your own" shows extreme arrogance and disrespect.
Or extreme insight and well-justified individuality
"In both your and my defense, we still don't know if this kid received any type of warning previously... If he didn't, then dismissal from the team is not an acceptable punishment. It doesn't work like that in the "real world," so why would it on this team?"
Yeah, I don't think we have the real story. Most any XC coach (or any coach) isn't so dictatorial as to cut a kid for one missed practice, especially this late in the season.
And if I was going to cut a kid I would inform the parents as to why that day. I wouldn't just say, "You're outta here buddy!!" and send him home.
High school Runner wrote:
What should I do if I was cut from the team? Will it affect my college applications? I am the only four year senior currently on the team. I skipped practice Friday in order to practice hills on my own. It is the first practice I skipped but my coach said I already have two strikes during summer conditioning for not showing up. Any suggestions?
Yeah, tell your coach he's a pr*ck and start dating his daughter.
Blahbaba wrote:
My guess is your teammates feel it was the correct punishment.
Skipping practice to "practice on your own" shows extreme arrogance and disrespect.
And skipping for the third time.... Buh Bye! No amount of talking to the coach fixes that unless the OP has gotten their head on straight after this episode.
That said, teenagers aren't the best decision makers, so... If the OP can come back with some humility after a face-to-face with the coach, maybe. But, that's a huge maybe.