Repeating a year of high school

proudpapa,
What if he is unable to pitch ever again?
Then what would the purpose be of repeating another year in HS?
Your son is a sophomore, if it is done now, he has plenty time to recover.

Best of luck.

I really dont like to see kids repeating a year of school in high school for athletic purposes, but that is just me. I can understand it if it is to help the kid academically but if it is purely athletic I really dont see a lot of good in it. If he is as highly motivated and wants to play college ball badly enough then it would see as if he would come back and work extra hard to make his last two years count. Im not sure what the recovery time is for the injury, but I am guessing he will probably have at least a year and a half to prove to scouts that he belongs...there have been players who have done more with less.

Good luck to you and your son in whatever you decide.

proudpapa - don't know which state you are in in New England, but in Kentucky the high school athletic association only allows 4 years of play from the time the student enters his freshman year. So if you are out a season it is just a season lost, you can't 'redshirt' in high school here.

Check with your local State Atheltic Association. In Florida, and like mentioned by topdogfan, many state associations start the clock when a student athlete enters the 9th grade. You repeat a year and you have lost a year. You must also look at the date of birth aspect as many associations have a strict age cutoff.

Start the rehab process as it can be done. Unless the student athlete is having exceptional difficulties with the academics, it is not a good idea to set a kid back for sports reasons and that is why the states have adopted these rules. They feel it is important to keep kids on track for a normal graduation date with their peers and not make athletics a reason for kids to jump around from school to school and to alter their graduation timetable.

Best of luck in the future, I hope everything works out for the best!

Agree with waveball. In Texas, if you repeat a year starting in the 7th grade through HS, you do NOT get another year of athletics...in other words, starting the 7th grade, you have 6 years to play sports for 6 years, period.

T-Bird,

I'm pretty sure the clock starts ticking in the 9th grade, not the 7th grade.

Dad0406,

Good catch...just looked it up. It was 7th grade when I played about 100 years ago.

It is 9th grade now. The way it reads, an athlete can't have enrolled in 9th grade more than 4 years previous to be eligible his/her senior year.

HS is also about academics and social issues and probably much more so than it is about sports. I would not mess with the HS timetable.