Does it make your HS and the coach and look bad?

twoinanddone
Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:05:21 +0000

Or ask the high school athletic director to delay the signing ceremony and include all the athletes who are still thinking about where they will attend college. Maybe they’ll have another day in April when more of the athletes know where they are going?

DD’s school did have a much smaller signing ceremony in the fall, and the year my daughter signed (in the fall) there were 4 rowers who participated. DD and her friends deferred to the spring. The HS I graduated from has 50 or more athletes who go on to play in college, does a big ceremony in the fall, will do one today for football, soccer, and water polo, and another in the spring. Plenty of athletes to do 3 signing celebrations. A rival hs to my daughter’s has an individual ceremony for each athlete, and just schedules them from Nov to April. My DD went to a few of her friends’ individual parties, and even to a few of her ‘frenamies’ (one who is a current college teammate, who committed to the college before my daughter and which made my daughter green with envy that she wasn’t first to commit; still went to celebrate with her teammate).

There are lots of ways to celebrate. I think you should encourage the teammates who aren’t committed yet to celebrate if they do commit, even if it is only cupcakes with the team. It is a big deal and should be celebrated…