When did your child stop high school sports?

[Anonymous]

Lots of negative kids on the team who just blame each other for bad outcomes and are overall just not nice. Would miss the coach though. The coach is great.
Wondering when your kid left the team and whether they have any regrets? Junior year? Senior year?

[Anonymous]

A bunch of kids did after sophomore year because of the time commitment, level of play, and it not being really fun. Some years you get nice kids and other years you get kids who can be kind of nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of negative kids on the team who just blame each other for bad outcomes and are overall just not nice. Would miss the coach though. The coach is great.
Wondering when your kid left the team and whether they have any regrets? Junior year? Senior year?

For HS, the most common exit time is the transition year from JV to Varsity, which for most schools is Sophomore or Junior year.

For club sports, most players leave their junior or senior year.

Life is too short to play sports with negative/bad kids. In HS you can't change much unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of negative kids on the team who just blame each other for bad outcomes and are overall just not nice. Would miss the coach though. The coach is great.
Wondering when your kid left the team and whether they have any regrets? Junior year? Senior year?

For HS, the most common exit time is the transition year from JV to Varsity, which for most schools is Sophomore or Junior year.

For club sports, most players leave their junior or senior year.

Life is too short to play sports with negative/bad kids. In HS you can't change much unfortunately.

The most common exit time is freshman year when so many kids don’t make Jv sports.

[Anonymous]

Mine did a sport freshman year and while it was varsity the coach and level of play was terrible. Opted to keep playing club but it was good they tried the sport at the HS to realize it wasn’t for them

[Anonymous]

Mine quit after 10th, continued playing club through senior year. HS team conflicted with some other things she wanted to do academically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of negative kids on the team who just blame each other for bad outcomes and are overall just not nice. Would miss the coach though. The coach is great.
Wondering when your kid left the team and whether they have any regrets? Junior year? Senior year?

For HS, the most common exit time is the transition year from JV to Varsity, which for most schools is Sophomore or Junior year.

For club sports, most players leave their junior or senior year.

Life is too short to play sports with negative/bad kids. In HS you can't change much unfortunately.

The most common exit time is freshman year when so many kids don’t make Jv sports.

This. Or junior year, when they don't make the Varsity teams. But students leave any time due to injuries, change of sport, a bad team culture, a bad coach, whatever other reason. OP if I were you, I'd help my teen think through what next.

[Anonymous]

After freshman year. He thought he’d make JV but knew if he did, he’d never see a minute of playtime in a game. That actually happened to a couple of friends and they left after tenth grade.

It was okay, other interests developed and many ended up getting very into their part time jobs after they turned 16 and focusing on the future, looking ahead to college etc. We were worried but there was a life after sports.

[Anonymous]

DC Catholic school parent here- many don’t make teams after freshman year. Another group stops after sophomore year - usually b/c they don’t make the team. DD played 2 sports through sophomore year, but stopping one this year due to time constraints.

[Anonymous]

The grades really have to come first, plus SAT prep. Colleges don’t really care (at all) about sports if you’re not a recruited athlete.

Don’t waste your time if it’s toxic.

[Anonymous]

My kid played one year of soccer freshman year. The team dynamics were not great.

[Anonymous]

My adult kids are still doing the sports they did in high school and so are my spouse and I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My adult kids are still doing the sports they did in high school and so are my spouse and I.

What sports

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After freshman year. He thought he’d make JV but knew if he did, he’d never see a minute of playtime in a game. That actually happened to a couple of friends and they left after tenth grade.

It was okay, other interests developed and many ended up getting very into their part time jobs after they turned 16 and focusing on the future, looking ahead to college etc. We were worried but there was a life after sports.

Ditto this exactly

[Anonymous]

My kids played two sports freshman year, dropped one after sophomore year and continued the other all the way through senior year.