Spring Break

Tournament.

district games

Missouri high school starts games today.  Our spring break starts tomorrow. 

 

We have a tournament from today until Tuesday, and nothing the rest of next week to make up for any games that were rained out.  If they dont have a game, they practice, including next Saturday. Varsity coach told them a few years ago if you plan on going somewhere for spring break, dont try out.  When my son was a freshman, he turned down a trip to Florida with one of his buddies and his family.

Bye week in district so one non-district game on Wed. Practice on Mon and Tue. Field work Thursday morning. Off rest of week. 

 

Other teams in district had their normal 3 game series. 

Just about every school in our area participates in at least one tournament, several do two.  Our JV does a different tournament.  More and more schools are opting for tourneys close to home as it becomes more difficult to warrant the extra travel with the budget cuts most schools have been facing the last several years.

Here in Southern Cal most, if not all teams play in a tournament over the break. 

NorCal team heading to Vegas for 4 day tourney.Most all schools in our area play, some district, some tourney ball.

Hawaii - regular practice and game schedule during spring break.

District games, some teams in our area play in out of state tournaments.

Games and practices during 'spring break,' which is mid April for us. (CT)

 

Sadly, some of our local towns in the conference lost their April break thanks to storm days/snow days, but in our conference, baseball/softball and LAX play games during break anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, answers as expected....had to put it out there to prove a point to the kid.  His spring break was this week.  His team practiced on Mon, game rained out Tue, HC decided to take the rest of the break off, no practice or anything

 

Not real happy with the decision as it has become the indicator I feared most since he took over last year.....lack of interest in the program, but hey....he does teach at the school....LOL

Virginia - 3 games over 2 days, that we (the parents) pay right much for. Spring break is the first week of April. Nothing else the rest of the week, that I am aware of.

When I was in Kentucky I absolutely LOVED spring break because we always went somewhere and stayed to play in a tournament.  There are so many good things that come out of going somewhere or just playing over spring break that if you're really dedicated to the sport it's a huge benefit.

 

Having the guys stay in hotel rooms and bond over playing video games in the rooms during down time, going out and seeing the sights and experiencing places they will never experience on their own is invaluable in the development of these kids as people.  THEN there is the added bonus of being able to strictly focus on baseball and nothing else.  Get some workouts in and improve on things you haven't got around to yet or facing teams you'll probably never face again is awesome.

 

We were in the western part of Kentucky near Louisville in farm country and there were a couple of years we went to the eastern part of Kentucky to the mountains.  We played some great games against some great teams.  We beat the team who ended up either winning or playing in the state championship that year and except for that tournament we never would have played them.  My guys will always remember that.  My last year we went to Myrtle Beach and I'll never forget two things - we played a team from South Carolina who was ranked third in the state.  They had around 16 games played while we were on our fourth game.  In fact the first game of the season was our first time on the field due to the weather.  They beat us 3 - 2 in the bottom of the 8th inning in an amazing game.  All the workers at the Ripken Experience stopped what they were doing to come watch our game. 

 

The next awesome experience is on our off day we went to the beach.  When we came over this hill and saw the ocean this one boy who was on the team because he was a great kid (and not really a great player) said that was the first time he saw the ocean.  I seriously doubt he will ever go to the beach again either.  I'm glad I was able to help make that happen.

 

So many good things can come from playing over spring break.  I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to go on a trip. 

There are games scheduled although my son will miss them.  He is a member of the high school band as well as the baseball team and they are going to play in Warsaw Poland this year.  I don't want to have him miss games but this is a once in a lifetime trip.

His team played 3 games, 2 of them district games, and had 3 practices (the non game days.) A little hard on us, we had scheduled a trip.  Live and learn, we now know for next year and it only cost a small (gulp) fee to change our dates for our trip.

What is this "spring break" you speak of?  Games and practices went on as scheduled.

I can't beleive that a school in FL does not play tournies or games during spring break. 

The weather is perfect, and they could use the experience.

 

When my son was in HS we went to the coach and asked if we as parents could run preseason tournies.  We did it for the money actually that we needed to run the team.  We told him to go get permission, call the teams and we would do everything else.  It's been going on since.

 

High school coaches that also teach only get stipends, maybe 1500-2000 or maybe nothing anymore because of budget restraints. If they are not coaching because they truely love to, then they need help.  I beleive that most coaches are grateful when suggestions are made to better their program, financially.

All echoing my point, and frustration, exactly!