{"id":4430,"date":"2014-08-22T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2014-08-22T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:00:52","slug":"what-do-you-say-to-the-last-kid-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/22\/what-do-you-say-to-the-last-kid-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you say to the last kid cut?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s something I thought was worth tossing out to my fellow coaches related to try-out decisions<\/a>. I want to see what kind of advice they would offer up in this situation. A while back I got the following message from my brother:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what do you do when your daughter, who is younger than everyone else at tryouts is the last cut as a freshman? What can she do? Where can she play to get better? She’s upset and feels like its pointless to tryout next year.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what would you tell the parent of a young player who just missed out on making your school team?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addendum: John Kessel has a post on this subject on the USA Volleyball website<\/a>. Think of it as a letter to a cut player. It includes the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The fact is, ending that dream is your choice really, and not in the control of the coach who just cut you. If you like playing, then simply come up with other ways to play until the next round of school or club programming.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what do you say to the last player you cut? For that matter, what about the others? Do you have a specific way you handle that situation? When I interviewed [amazon text=Volleyball Coaching Wizard&asin=1535426217] Tom Turco (winner of nearly 20 state high school championships), he said he had conversations with every kid. He felt he owed them all at least that much. Others have said something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team selection is part of the duties of most volleyball coaches at least somewhere along the way. What do you say to those who didn’t make the team?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[112,125,484],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication","tag-volleyball-try-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}