{"id":15752,"date":"2024-11-27T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15752"},"modified":"2024-11-26T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:07:46","slug":"small-schools-cant-fill-girls-basketball-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/small-schools-cant-fill-girls-basketball-rosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Small schools can&#8217;t fill girls&#8217; basketball rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarion-Goldfield-Dows has cancelled its varsity girls&#8217; basketball season. Not enough students are interested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2024\/11\/26\/fewer-girls-signing-up-high-school-basketball-iowa-some-schools-forced-cut-teams\/\">Story: KCCI via KCRG.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The [IGHSAU] knows the number of girls playing basketball is going down, but does not know why,&#8221; KCCI&#8217;s Marcus McIntosh said in the story.<\/p>\n<p>This is about enrollment. This is about decline in interest in extracurricular activities, across the board, for years.\u00a0And if not those, I can explain it in two words: Travel volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Given that <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/goodbye-to-goldfield-school\">I recently wrote about Goldfield&#8217;s school coming down<\/a> and its once-rich basketball tradition, a story like this should be treated as a warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarion-Goldfield-Dows has cancelled its varsity girls&#8217; basketball season. Not enough students are interested. Story: KCCI via KCRG. &#8220;The [IGHSAU] knows the number of girls playing basketball is going down, but does not know why,&#8221; KCCI&#8217;s Marcus McIntosh said in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/small-schools-cant-fill-girls-basketball-rosters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15753,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}