If a coach is making decisions on the fact that it may effect this player for the rest of her life is really an overreach on the idea of competition. Maybe these players need to learn to work harder to gain what they desire or realize that they are not as good as others. THAT IS LIFE. I have been cut from a team, I have played JV as a junior (the senior in my spot was better) and I have been part of championship teams. It is all part of the experience of sports.I'd like the people who are jumping in here to try to look at this from the perspective of parents whose kids are playing their last seasons of softball, maybe ever. Or the perspective of girls who, having given three years to a program, find themselves replaced before their final year of high school. Like I've said, high school isn't travel ball -- you don't have the option of going to a different situation if this one isn't working out. So a coach making the decision to not play a senior is more than just filling out the lineup card. It's moments in people's lives.