SC Soccer Forums SCSoccer.com Forums Junior Varsity Soccer Fort Mill to drop middle school sports

I know I was just wondering how many middle schools could lay claim to having teams. Since some actual schools do not have the program the kids play JV and I imagine at a lot of smaller schools the JV is mostly 7/8th graders.

I am still of the mind that over the long run middle school team will benefit the HS programs. I know it has only been 3 years in FM but both FMMS and GHMS have done well against HS JV's (boys and girls). I can't help but think these kids are getting an extra 2yrs to play as a team before HS and that will pay off eventually.

At the least it give the coaches a chance to see the players who may not be known from local club but have potential.

I agree with you 100%, it's nice to have middle school soccer so that all of these girls can keep playing competitively.

But, as Big Daddy has stated before, is it a necessity, or a luxury......especially in these difficult economic times?

If we have to drop middle school soccer, who gets left out? The competitive 7th & 8th graders are playing for their club teams in the spring. The non-competitive 7th & 8th graders can play in the recreational league during the spring.

And.....the really, really good players can play on the high school JV team. What child gets "left behind"?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the MS programs if we can make it work. I officiated a couple of games tonight, the boys game was one of the most exciting and well-played games that I have had the pleasure of doing this year. Atmosphere was great, fans were in a frenzy.

Totally with you on the choices that have to be made. Teaching at school come first. In fact last year one of my comment to the board was to question why we were getting rid of reading specialists and keeping the math specialists. How do you do math problems you can't read!

Just like the idea of finding a way to keep a low cost sport like soccer available to the kids while also provideing the school pride and behavior incentive, teachers will tell you big that is!

Which MS game did ref GHMS vs Clover?

MS Girls
Fort Mill 3
Oak Ridge 0

MS Boys
Fort Mill 3
Oak Ridge 2

That's the seconsd time I have heard the Oak Ridge put a good battle! They gave GHMS all they could handle too.

Wow would make for great season if some of the York teams could play more of the other area team! Did not realize their were so many other teams.

Lexington 1 mulls job cuts, more

Ending instruction in foreign language in second grade, band in fifth grade and middle school sports teams

Lexington One: Gilbert HS (2A), Lexington HS (4A), Pelion HS (2A) White Knoll HS (4A)

None of the Lexington 1 schools have strictly middle school soccer teams. White Knoll has a boys B squad, but not middle school teams. I don't see how this annoucement would make much difference for soccer.