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Post by IdahoBoy on Apr 27, 2007 3:28:29 GMT -5
So, before you stop to ask, "what does this have to do with volleyball," well, it does... sorta.
Just heard on the news that the girls basketball season is moving to the fall, like the rest of the nation. It seems to be pretty common that a lot of kids play volleyball in the fall and basketball in the spring, without thinking of
Girls Softball moves to spring, Boy's volleyball moves to Spring.
The moves go into effect in '08-'09 season.
Volleyball is pretty popular in Hawaii, I wonder what will happen to numbers in all sports involved after the change takes effect.
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Post by woozie2.0 on Apr 27, 2007 4:06:04 GMT -5
The Star-Bulletin reports that girls' basketball moves to the Winter alongside boys' basketball. This means the State Tournament moves to February from May. The volleyball tournaments are in November. So, the seasons don't completely overlap. However, the gap between them disappears. If anything, it could mean more injuries as players get less rest between seasons.
The benefit to basketball players is that they get evaluated along with everyone else during the recruiting season with all tournaments taking place at the same time.
We'll just have to see what happens.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 11:35:59 GMT -5
Interesting, in the midwest bball(both boys and girls) is still considered a winter sport, pretty much late November through state tourneys in early to mid March. At least the states that surround Nebraska.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 12:24:53 GMT -5
What does this have to do with volleyball?
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Post by Ye Olde Dawg on Apr 27, 2007 13:26:35 GMT -5
What does this have to do with Volleyball? It parallels a change made in Michigan, where some parents sued to have girls' sports seasons changed to line up with the rest of the country. Here's just one story, courtesy of Google: hometownlife.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070419/SPORTS/704190724/1055/NEWS11Volleyball was at the center of the controversy surrounding the fight to change sports seasons in Michigan. The Supreme Court was in agreed with a lower court ruling stating that the Michigan High School Athletic Association and its decision to play volleyball in the winter was discriminating toward girls. |
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Post by FreeBall on Apr 27, 2007 13:41:02 GMT -5
Reading between the lines of IB's post, I get the impression that high schools in Hawaii have only two seasons for sports - fall and spring. Is that accurate?
Nebraska and the surrounding states have three seasons for high school sports - fall, winter and spring. Fall sports are played from around the start of the school year until sometime in November. Winter sports run from then until late February or early March, with spring sports going from mid-March until around the end of the school year.
In Nebraska the sports are assigned to the seasons as follows:
Fall: Football/Volleyball (G)/Golf (G)/Tennis (B)/Cross Country (B & G)/Softball (G)
Winter: Basketball (B & G)/Wrestling/Swimming (B & G)
Spring: Track & Field (B & G)/Soccer (B & G)/Golf (B)/Tennis (G)/Baseball (B)
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Post by IdahoBoy on Apr 27, 2007 13:46:48 GMT -5
I looked into a little more and as someone else mentioned above, there are three seasons, fall, winter, and spring, as FreeBall suggests. Basketball moves to Winter. Boy's Volleyball moves to Spring.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 13:56:18 GMT -5
What's this got to do with Volleyball?
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Post by Ye Olde Dawg on Apr 27, 2007 14:51:26 GMT -5
What's this got to do with Volleyball? Not much. Maybe it shows that what's good for volleyball players in Michigan is good for basketball players in Hawaii. |
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Post by jgrout on Apr 27, 2007 15:08:16 GMT -5
What's this got to do with Volleyball? Many top women's college volleyball players excelled in both prep volleyball and basketball. Some are competent at both in the college level and a few (e.g., Kristin Folkl) excel at both. Putting the two girls sports at the same time in the prep season accelerates the trend toward athletic specialization... focusing on only one sport. In volleyball-crazed Hawai'i, having both prep sports at the same time would probably do more to damage girls basketball than girls volleyball... but, overall, most of these prep realignments are intended to help girls basketball at the expense of other sports. At the college level, the true believers (aka lunatic fringe) espouse a realigned women's BB schedule overlapping all three traditional seasons to prevent BB players from playing soccer, volleyball, track and field or softball and to encourage their prep recruits to focus as soon as possible on BB. |
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 27, 2007 18:59:39 GMT -5
What does this have to do with synchronized swimming?
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Post by jewel on Apr 28, 2007 9:25:26 GMT -5
where is hawaii anyhow? is it the one shaped like an oven mitt?
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Post by bigfan on Apr 28, 2007 12:06:48 GMT -5
What does this have to do with synchronized swimming? Many players compete in both sports. |
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Post by jewel on Apr 28, 2007 16:32:12 GMT -5
the ones who have not drowned.
that wolfgang. such a cutup.
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