Thanks to all who have posted here and provided insight and opinions. It is appreciated. Let me add a few items for you regarding the situation. First, as I stated, I am not a helicopter parent and I stay away from the workouts and practices for all the high school sports. I would never say anything other than small talk/pleasantries to any of the coaches and absolutely believe that, in the eyes of the coaches, he needs to be one of the best players at whatever sport he is playing and earn his dues. My concern and reason for asking for advice is for him to just be given a chance/look for varsity. For the school's football and basketball team tryouts the freshman were totally segregatd and not afforded the chance to tryout with even the JV let alone the Varsity teams. It was not an open tryout with the best players making the squads. Further, for him to continue to develop and improve as both a pitcher and position player, I feel he needs to be playing with and against players of his skill set or better. I'm not sure he will get that at the JV level and definitely won't getit at the frosh level. All of the kids that he has been playing with and against on the club level for the last four or five years will be on varsity this year and a few of them were on varsity last yeat (obviously at different schools). He's always competed and excelled with and against these kids and their teams. When the high school season is over with he'll be back with his 16U club team playing in Pastime, WWB, BCS, etc...with and against kids as good and better than him. Additioanlly, last year he was too old to play 14U so he played in a spring high school "cut" league on a pick up team that was one of the youngest and poorest in the league. It was ugly, particularly when he was pitching. He usually needed to get 4-6 outs an inning due to the poor level of his teammates and it DID NOT help his composure, competitiveness, confidence, etc...it actually brought his level of play down to that of the competition and teammates. I hope for him to avoid that with his high school experience. So that said I'm just looking for advice to get him consideration for varsity. I am going to continue to stay out of it and let him handle it on his own however he feels he needs to and support him accordingly. Just like when he's in a tough situation at the plate or on the bump, he's gotta handle it on his own. He's been preparing for this for many years so I'll stay out of it and let the chips fall where they may.