I don’t disagree with you. I have never heard the term pre elite before. DH was a tennis and soccer player. My boys played tennis and soccer from a very young age. My kids both dropped soccer but both play tennis. My oldest is borderline tennis recruit level. My younger son is a better tennis player but seems to like basketball more. I already feel my high school kid has so much on his plate with his rigorous courseload and varsity sports schedule. I don’t know how much more tennis he can play but then we see his peers who go to school half time to train 5 hours per day. They are not that much better than DS and we know he could be just as good if he also played that much. I just want my kids to go to a good college and have a happy life. I am not trying to necessarily have elite athletes. DH is the one who pushes for sports since our kids are so good at it. |
Pp again. It is natural for parents to want their kids to be and do better than themselves. When the parents themselves were at a high level and the bar has risen so much over the years, parents start kids earlier and train harder.
All three of my kids can run circles around me and Dh when we were their same age. They are stronger than us in every way. Yet I’m not sure my kids will even be able to attend the same colleges and grad schools Dh and I attended. |
What do you mean by borderline recruit? It is nearly impossible to play at a good D1 team for boys |
My kid only started high school. I have been talking to other parents of high school juniors and seniors and just starting to learn the process. I do not expect my child to be a D1 recruit. He could be a D3 recruit. I was listening to a podcast recently about the world of sports recruiting and it is intense. My kid has done some summer camps over the years. One sports academy is a boarding school and invited my son to become a boarding student. There are students who are elite athletes and then there are kids like my son who are strong students and strong athletes. The school could place both kinds of athletes at top colleges. We didn’t go that route. |
I watch my nieces parents hustle her around nonstop to camps, private trainers etc and eventually got a full ride to a D1 school. She had multiple knee surgeries from HS through early college until she had to stop. She can't even walk right anymore. |
Yes IMG says that to everyone |