Why were people saying this? She spent several months per year playing against high level talent in AAU.
High School Sports Thread
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I remember Hallie Christofferson was downgraded by many because she DIDN'T play AAU. Turned out all right for us.
That I can see. No AAU and a small school is a big unknown. But people were always bringing playing 1A for Audi and the adjustment or questioning her as a prospect. She played a lot more against high level talent in AAU much of the year.
Girls wrestling has taken off like a lightning bolt. My two granddaughters (12 and 9) both club wrestle. They’re in tourneys every weekend from the time their softball club ends until softball club starts again in spring. Last weekend their tourney in Boone ran 6 matches at a time from 9am to 5pm and half were girls. Never seen anything like it.
I don't follow high school sports all that much, but this isn't really a new thing. It could very well be more common now than what it used to be.
My high school team growing up was #1 in Iowa 4A for most of our senior year and top 5 the rest of it. Similar my junior year. We had our fair share of close games against other good schools, but many were blow outs. So bad that teams would hold the ball for several minutes at a time (not shot clock) just trying to play us into the lowest scoring game possible. It was sad to watch.
Yeah, blowouts are as old as the sport. It was a commentary on Ames beating Iowa City by 40+ is why I posted. I was hoping the college version would follow suit.
Haha. I clearly missed your joke on this one and was thinking in context of the rest of the thread
Check out how the Florida State Championship in their biggest Class ended tonight:
Just saw this opinion. I see her point, of course all coaches/schools want to win as much as possible, but that should not be the primary objective.
Varsity coach is there to win. He/she needs to assist with development to improve their chances of winning. JV and JJV are for development for the varsity team. If you aren’t there by your senior year, there isn’t much more they can do.
Now saying that, there are many more lessons to learn from athletics than just winning. Issue is that coaches are there to win and many times the kids can learn poor lessons from the coaches and not the ones they should be learning.
I took a new job that has me meeting a diverse group of people. One thing that has struck me are the people who have moved from inner cities to rural southern Iowa. Not a ton, but they all moved about a year or so into the pandemic. Housing costs and they needed to get out of there. They say life moves at a different pace in a town of 500 but they aren’t moving back.
Took them all of 48 hours to realize that DoorDash and uber aren’t happening there
They can just learn to drive the 1/2 block to the bank like I watched someone do in my home town about a month ago.
I thought maybe they were just stopping on the way out of town but nope, that was the trip. Maybe about a football field's width of distance.
Had to laugh.
Was it on their lawn mower? Town I grew up near always had one person who drives their lawnmower around like it’s their vehicle. When one dies, another takes over the tradition I guess. This tradition dates back to the 80s at least.
We had a guy in a small town near here lose his license because of drunk driving. He got drunk and hopped on his lawnmower and got OWI 2nd offense.
Golf carts and UTVs have replaced lawn mower riding guy. Everyone seems to have a golf cart now.
Nope, full sized truck. And this person was probably in their 30s and 40s and perfectly able to walk that distance.
Pretty much everyone in town drives to the bar/restaurants, drives to one another's house and I'm not sure if anyone lives more than 1/2 mile from one another.
Clarion-Goldfield-Dows has scored less than 10 pts in 4 of their 5 games so far.
They didn't have a team last year, so that is part of their issues.
So sad to see the NEIC go away. Grew up in Oelwein and it was great. But that was 40 years ago. Deere’s was so prominent in those types of communities back then and it seemed vibrant. Probably really wasn’t, but seemed so at the time.
