There’s no way to play both soccer and lax right

[Anonymous]

My daughter is riding 3rd, and pretty athletic, loves soccer lightly more than lax. Has played both at rec level /pre-travel for a few years, and wants to join travel team. Are there any two clubs/teams (with good programs for this age) will coincidentally have different weekday for practices /trainings and games on different weekend days?

We live in Mclean, will consider any options within 30-45mins drive. Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of McLean girls play MYS (travel) and Pride at least through middle school.

[Anonymous]

Are you trying to play travel? Or rec? In third grade, I imagine you're still looking at rec. Just sign her up with a preference for different days. If travel, very hard to play travel for both sports and make the schedules work....it's also a lot for an 8 year old.

[Anonymous]

Tons of girls play both. Most clubs will ask that you make soccer a priority sport in the spring/summer. My daughter played both her first 2 years in HS. Being a 2-sport athlete has lots of benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you trying to play travel? Or rec? In third grade, I imagine you're still looking at rec. Just sign her up with a preference for different days. If travel, very hard to play travel for both sports and make the schedules work....it's also a lot for an 8 year old.

Thank you for your question. We are looking at travel for both if possible. She’s going to quit other sports for these too. She’s ok with the workload so far.

[Anonymous]

Say you decide as a family you only have the capacity for one travel sport per child, would you nudge your daughter toward travel soccer or travel lax?

[Anonymous]

Daughter played travel lacrosse and soccer but you would need to drop one when going into high school if she plans on playing for her high school teams too. Otherwise too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daughter played travel lacrosse and soccer but you would need to drop one when going into high school if she plans on playing for her high school teams too. Otherwise too much.

Understandable, but since she’s still young, I’m researching solutions for now. She will pick soccer if only one travel sports is offered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of McLean girls play MYS (travel) and Pride at least through middle school.

Thank you, I will look into that again. I thought both of them have games on Saturdays.

[Anonymous]

We are in Arlington - DD did both club lacrosse and travel soccer through the fall of 9th grade and then it became too much and the injury risk seemed too great. She chose lacrosse because she loves it more than soccer.
There will likely be times she will need to choose which to go to, but there are a fair number of girls who do both through middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in Arlington - DD did both club lacrosse and travel soccer through the fall of 9th grade and then it became too much and the injury risk seemed too great. She chose lacrosse because she loves it more than soccer.
There will likely be times she will need to choose which to go to, but there are a fair number of girls who do both through middle school.

This. My daughter is doing both. Not easy and sometimes has to miss a practice but doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in Arlington - DD did both club lacrosse and travel soccer through the fall of 9th grade and then it became too much and the injury risk seemed too great. She chose lacrosse because she loves it more than soccer.
There will likely be times she will need to choose which to go to, but there are a fair number of girls who do both through middle school.

This. My daughter is doing both. Not easy and sometimes has to miss a practice but doable.

In our experience lacrosse was much easier to miss, soccer acts as if you’re going to be a professional. Don’t yield to the soccer coaches who act like missing a practice or game is the end of the world. They will make it work if your daughter can help the team. I’ve seen too many kids go down the soccer road exclusively because coaches told them they couldn’t miss anything or play other sports. That’s ridiculous. These are often the kids that quit later on because they are sick of soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of McLean girls play MYS (travel) and Pride at least through middle school.

Thank you, I will look into that again. I thought both of them have games on Saturdays.

Pride plays in NGLL in the spring, which will have Saturday and Sunday games. Summer and Fall are weekend tournaments.

[Anonymous]

You can move to any other state in the country and make it happen. Everywhere else has soccer as a fall sport and lacrosse as a spring sport. VA is the only state dumb enough to have both in the spring.

[Anonymous]

In MD you can… soccer is fall, lax is spring.

My kids did both at a high level.