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Really might want to check your facts. This year's team has three player getting regular rotation minutes that started and played on the frosh team - Jordan Bower, Abby James and Sofia Teresi. Elle Hanson, Jacqulyn Micheal, Layla Woods, Makayla Moore, April Chen, both Hernandez sister,s Noemie Bariteau and Natalie Anderson all played multiple years of both frosh and JV in the last couple of years and either started or earned significant playing time.
This doesn't take into account lots of other players that moved through the ranks and ended up playing varsity, although not getting tons of minutes, just like any other school.
You have pointed out that it is indeed possible for players who started on the Frosh team make it on the varsity squad in their junior year. But the 3 you named probably could have played a ton of varsity minutes elsewhere. I agree with northbaybbguru in that if I were on the Frosh team today and I saw another player (or two) in my year be picked to be on varsity, then the chance that I would get meaningful minutes as a varsity player 2 or 3 years later (when I'm a junior or senior on varsity) is not high. There are usually 10 players on Frosh and maybe another 10 on JV at any given year. To only name maybe 3 or 4 at any given time to make it all the way to varsity is not a promising stat. Jordan Bowar, Abby James, Sofia Teresi all put in the time and the work since the 9th grade blowing out teams. None of them start, but at least they get to touch the ball. Many others don't play a single minute of most games.
Isn't the part about only 3 or 4 from the freshman team making it to varsity true almost anywhere where they have a freshman team? Like same at all WCAL schools, right? As you go from middle school, to frosh, to jv, to varsity the internal competition gets tougher and fewer get through the funnel. The funnel is narrower at the better programs, but the phenomenon is the same.
You missed Letsski's other point ... I watched many of the nine other kids he mentioned who started out on the lower level teams within the past few years, and they eventually started or played major minutes on varsity, won individual honors, and are now on scholarship playing in college. I imagine it is very hard and there are many who don't achieve these things. True. Like always. But to opine that assignment to the frosh then jv team is a basketball dead end is just factually inaccurate. Or worse.
You are correct that the three I pointed out on this year's team could have played a ton of minutes somewhere else, but they chose to stay at Mitty and be part of something special. It's not always about playing time. This is absolutely no different than a player choosing to go to a D1 college program and not playing a lot vs. going D2 or D3 and starting. Each player makes their own decisions for their own reasons.
For you, it may just be about playing time; for others, maybe getting to play in front of college coaches during preseason open gyms. Maybe practicing against some of the best players in the country is important. Maybe playing for a coaching staff and an administration that fully supports the program and their student athletes is a compelling reason .
And keep in mind, playing for a program such as Mitty opens lots of doors. The 3 players you cited above will all have a chance to play in college - 2 have already fielded D1 offers. Many of the "bench" players have also committed to play in college - would they have had that same opportunity somewhere else?
Question: why do players chose to play for a Kid Select or Cal Stars and maybe fight for playing time or get placed on a lower level team vs. staying at a smaller, local, not as competitive program? Only the players and their parents can answer that question.
Finally, in your example above - you didn't address the other 9 players that went through the lower teams and either started or played significant minutes on varsity...all of whom except one are now playing in college.
You had to bring that up. (And it was only 16.)
To give you an idea how good Mitty's program is, though, my JVs are 12-0 against JV teams and beat St. Francis 60-36 this morning.
And their frosh are a better team than we are.
If a girl plays on the frosh team, it is highly unlikely she will ever play on varsity.
As for Mitty, as far as I could tell, one player from their junior-heavy JV, which beat my 19-4 JVs in a scrimmage and a game by a combined score of 169-22, made their varsity this year.
It's different on the boys' side, because boys grow later. Most girls are as tall as they're going to get as freshmen -- boys can add five to 10 inches and that changes everything.
As for Mitty, as far as I could tell, one player from their junior-heavy JV, which beat my 19-4 JVs in a scrimmage and a game by a combined score of 169-22, made their varsity this year.
It's different on the boys' side, because boys grow later. Most girls are as tall as they're going to get as freshmen -- boys can add five to 10 inches and that changes everything.
Clay ... I take it you are too busy this weekend to read through this entire thread. If you had, you would see that Letsski (who is very familiar with the Mitty program) just gave the names of like 13 kids who within the past few years started out on Mitty frosh then went on to play significant roles on Mitty varsity and most all now play in college. Did many others not achieve those heights? Sure. Just like everywhere.
There are two directions people on this thread can go here ... the positive one of fact based praise for a program that is deep and successfully cultivates players at all levels for success. Or the negative one of poor inaccurate assumptions.
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Woliczko down! Doesn't look good..oh boy ☹️...carried off.
Hopefully just a tweak and nothing serious!
Yikes
Anyone at the game see what happened?
Hopefully just a tweak and nothing serious!
Yikes
Anyone at the game see what happened?
Not the best video, but here is what I grabbed off the screen
View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UmCf4b3abFeSE2cr0NmbRWNbInEsSqL8/view?usp=sharing
View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UmCf4b3abFeSE2cr0NmbRWNbInEsSqL8/view?usp=sharing
She did not come back, the injury looked pretty serious. Praying that it’s not as serious as it looked.
Great comeback win for Riordan over McClatchy in overtime. The two now-eligible transfers add skill and size to a solid core.
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