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Southwick High School Girls Basketball Is sadly Dying, only 9 girls in grades 10 – 11 & 12 tried out this year. Numbers don’t lie and when only 13 girls in grades 9-10-11 and 12 try out for your High School teams, you have a serious problem. Instead of addressing the problem the AD allowed the varsity coach to take 10 impressionable junior high children to hide the shortage problem. Now you have 12 year old girls playing and hanging out with 17 and 18 year old young women . Funny the Principal at the High School doesn’t allow upper classmen to talk or socialize with junior high students but they can play sports together and have team sleepovers. I urge any parent who had a daughter quit playing basketball at Southwick High to call the Superintendents office and let them know why your daughter stopped playing the sport they loved. The girls basketball team should be a top tier team as the Senior and Sophomore classes won Suburban Western Mass title’s in junior high. Sadly most of the players who were on these title teams have quit the basketball program. The AD and Principal are fully aware of this appalling situation but have taken no actions to protect the kids under their care.
