I don’t understand why you are competing for limited opportunities. You move on and find something else that you really like.
I know the teams at our kids’ high school had limited space. There is only so much space in a transportation van. They have to pick the students who put in the time.
The coaches have to access a bus, a driver and they have to make sure that the liability insurance on the van, school, and the students, covers the travel and sport.
An athlete requires a lot of balance and hours of practice. That meant summer practices, evening practices, early morning 5 AM wake up practices, and those rituals show in the sport.
Just because you’re not on a school team doesn’t mean that you can’t be doing the same activities outside of school utilizing community travel teams, league and sports teams. Saying that you didn’t have equal access and opportunities means that you didn’t look outside the box.