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Congrats to your son Baseballbum

Congrats to your son--and you. Enjoy the next 5 seasons--they will go by fast.

Hey, congratulations, baseballbum. Can I ask you how an 8th grader gets to tryout for the 9th grade team? I didn't know you could do that? Does it affect his ability to play his "normal" four years in HS?

Biggerpapapi No problem.

CIF in San Diego treats Freshman Ball as a travel select team. They are affiliated with the HighSchool by name only. It is primarily a travel team and yes he can play 5 years. Now some Prep Schools or UT sections do not allow 8th grade involvement, you have to be a registered 9th grader. The section my son is in allow 8th graders to compete. Just registered for his AAU Card last night.

congratulations, no more worries just travel and practice and playing time.lol Sounds like a good program where you are alot of the smaller schools here allow that but not the larger ones.

Congrats BaseballBum to your son! May he have many wonderful years of baseball ahead of him!

In Kentucky, middle schoolers may try out for HS team. Various coaches have differing philosophies on taking them, but they can try out according to KHSAA rules. If they were to make the team, those years do not count against their 4 years of HS eligibility. Kinda "free" years so to speak.

The way I see it, I wanted him to get the experience of trying out for a HighSchool Team. What it entails and what he needed to improve on. There was a lot of running and after his first couple of practices he wanted to take a hot bath and sleep, that was it!

Him making the team is just icing on the cake. Once again this website was very valuable and he still has the list nailed to the wall.