Mostly, because a lot of kids love the idea of playing for their school team.
Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever, claims to have been cut from a high-school team.
When you're a middle school team with two guys who are 6-4 and 6-3, feed it to them.
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So in sixth grade I played goalie for my Princeton middle school team.
Ella was part of a school team which recently competed at the National School Equestrian Association's national showjumping finals.
He was one of the tallest player on his North Carolina high-school team, which included 6-foot-11 Duke star Ryan Kelly.
Until this fall when I saw that he was back playing quarterback for his school team, Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard.
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Often, the goal is to simply land a spot on the local high school team, an accomplishment once taken for granted.
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Parents are worried that without paying through the nose for travel sports, their child might not even make an elementary school team.
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Australian friends Stuart Appleby and Robert Allenby are also paired together, as are Boo Weekley and Bubba Watson, former high school team-mates.
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Within minutes the entire playing area at the Galle stadium was covered by water, but Jones and the boys of the Harrow School team made it to safety just in time.
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They have created a website, attempting to refute a number of allegations, including that the local police department was full of ex-football players who played on the Steubenville high school team.
Some 100 pilot schools are trying out a new timetable, with academic subjects in the morning and sport in the afternoon (only 20% of secondary-school pupils now take part in school team sports).
Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.
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However, Indiana in June had already self-imposed a one-year ban on communication between its basketball coaching staff and Adams, whose A-HOPE Foundation finds often make it to his own Indiana Elite AAU high school team.
It speaks to the power of high school sports that even though some are declaring them irrelevant in terms of athletic development and their necessity for a college scholarship, so many teenagers still want to be a part of a school team.
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However, the research presented here does show commonality, in that sports parents are presented with a very vague order: If you want your child to get a college scholarship (or even make the high school team), you have to ensure your child is of a certain athletic ability.
The Indiana bill does have rules in place that would require home-schooled and nonaccredited-schooled athletes to pass a standardized test to prove their grade level, and it also says that a student must be in these environments for at least three years before being eligible to try out for a public school team.
From Alex, Year 8 on behalf of The BBC School Report Team at The Kimberley School.
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There was even a bounty scandal earlier this year involving a high school rugby team.
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Hello to Musselburgh Grammar School where the School Report team were interrupted by three fire alarms.
Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll met at CMU in 1999 while on the school swim team.
She was the girl on the school cheerleading team who could not afford shoes.
Well done and congratulations for the brilliant hard work of the All Saints BBC School Report team.
Some residents have accused outsiders of trying to ruin the reputation of the town's high school football team.
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He went on to quarterback his high school football team and was captain of the baseball and basketball teams.
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The young Terre'Blanche stood out among his small-town peers, leading both the school rugby team and its debating club.
Ronnie Chalmers, Mario's father, spent 22 years in the Air Force and coached Mario's high-school basketball team in Anchorage, Alaska.
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