With spring sports well underway for the 2011 season, many teams have gotten into a groove of when and where practices are each day. All of the athletes know where they need to be for game times and are always certain that they have priority over lesser sports. But this is not the case for Eastview’s zEUs Ultimate Frisbee team. Since the team is student run and organized, they do not have priority over even middle school teams.
It is extremely frustrating for the team when they are getting all warmed up for a big rivalry game and then all of a sudden, the coach for a 7th grade girls lacrosse B team comes up to the captains and says “Hey guys, we have this field checked out from six to eight o’clock.” Where is the team supposed to play now?
Even during practice they get booted to the small soccer field behind the stadiums bleachers. The field is uneven, has many divots, random patches of dirt, and is usually covered in goose feces. This team has been around longer than the girl’s varsity lacrosse team and yet they still have zero priority over sports that are actually school sanctioned. It is unfair to the team that they still don’t get the respect they deserve even though it is popular with students and is a much enjoyed sport to watch for the parents and friends of the players.
It is a lose-lose for the team because then if the school did sanction the team, the students would have to pay for a mandatory bus fee for away games instead of just carpooling, they would have to drop their name of zEUs, which has been a player favorite for years, for Lightning Ultimate, and they would not get to enjoy the simple freedoms of being their own players because the school would have to sign their own coach instead of the players choosing their own adult leader. The team is in between a rock and a hard place.
If they were to get sanctioned, they could have priority of fields over lesser sports, they would get due recognition for their achievements, and they could be supported by the school. There is a lot of give and take here for the team.
Until something gets fixed, the team has simply decided to buckle down and work through the adversity and play the game they love.
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