What Is a Sport I Could Get My Unathletic DD Into?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I am coming back to say THANK YOU to the people who recommended rowing for my DD. I had her try it out last summer and she loved it and is now on her school’s team.

Thank you so much!


That’s great! I’m glad it’s working out for her and I love when OPs come back to update.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I am coming back to say THANK YOU to the people who recommended rowing for my DD. I had her try it out last summer and she loved it and is now on her school’s team.

Thank you so much!

That’s wonderful! Congrats!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I am coming back to say THANK YOU to the people who recommended rowing for my DD. I had her try it out last summer and she loved it and is now on her school’s team.

Thank you so much!


NP here, but I am pretty active on the forum. I am so thankful for this big DCUM community.
Anonymous
Have you tried dance or aeriel? Maybe she's just not very sporty and needs something that's athletic yet artsy.
Anonymous
So happy for you OP! Rowing was also transformative for my once unathletic DD. She stayed on the rowing team all 4 years in high school
Anonymous
This makes me so happy, as one of the PP’s who recommended it!! Love this for her and also feeling less guilty about spending a bunch of time on this website
Anonymous
Fencing! DC is a great area for it. Kids from area privates regularly send graduates to great colleges to fence. NCS and STA have had kids get fencing offers at a few of the Ivys. Potomac had a fencer who is at Princeton make the most recent Olympic team.
Anonymous
What do you do when school allows student’s dad to be the team manager and substitutes for coach sometimes (and then plays their kid and his buddies) at all times and benches others?
Anonymous
Crew
Anonymous
You could take her to yoga class with you. Modeling exercise is the best way to help your child build a lifelong habit

I don't think parents being sedentary and driving the kids around and just watching makes much sense
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She doesn't need to do a sport. Making her do a sport when she is unathletic and uninterested will only drive down her confidence and morale. She will be surrounded by girls who have played the sport since they were 3-4-5 years old in many cases. It's too late to take up a varsity sport, OP. She may even have to try out for a spot, and won't make the team.

Who is your daughter? What are HER interests, OP? Have you asked her? If this is about something to put on a college application, just stop already. Help your daughter figure out her interests, don't try to force her to be interested.


This is OP. It is not about something to put on a college application. She is can be a little shy and is not very confident athletically. However, I would like her to enjoy some sport but need something that would not kill her confidence because she is not the best at it. She is very smart, gets good grades and loves musical theatre but not all of the schools she has applied to have great or robust theatre programs so I am trying to figure out something else she would enjoy and which would allow her to practice and socialize regularly with a group of girls.


I think making her do a sport will make things worse. You’ll be forcing her to hang out with people she has nothing in common with them won’t fit it then will feel bad about herself.

I’ve made my non-athletic son do martial arts, but that has nothing to do with school, it is totally for exercise. He also enjoys hiking which we do as a family and he has a small group of teens that like to as well. Parents take turns driving them to local trails.
Anonymous
Why do people respond without reading the thread?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:What do you do when school allows student’s dad to be the team manager and substitutes for coach sometimes (and then plays their kid and his buddies) at all times and benches others?



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