How much did size (height/strength) impact kids athletic chances in middle school?
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Anonymous
| We have really tough try out teams by this age. I’m curious what impact size had on kids ability to stand out. |
Anonymous
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Yes, athletic kids so much better in sports.
Expensive sports are less competitive. |
Anonymous
That is a stupid generalization |
Anonymous
Tall and stronger kids will generally get selected for most sports in middle school over shorter weaker kids. The coaches want to win and they are looking for kids who can impact the sport. We have a taller stronger girl on our soccer team. She has terrible footwork and poor passing abilities, but at times she just runs through players. She does not play the whole game, but I am sure she was selected over a shorter weaker player for her size alone. Coaches pick kids tased on potential also, they often think they can train and condition the bigger athletes to get them to fill a specific roll. These are just athletic principles in general. They apply more in middle school than at the youth level when there are often vast size differences between kids. |
Anonymous
| None and my kid is not gifted so we encourage it for exercise. |
Anonymous
| It can be a very big issue (especially for boys), but depends on the sport. |
Anonymous
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Yes. Tall athletic kids do better at sports in middle school.
They also do better in sports in elementary school, high school, college, professional sports and the Olympics. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily in elementary |
Anonymous
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Boy with a Fall birthday, always 95% + height/weight, always a top athlete. Made the MS soccer and basketball teams, same for HS.
Now plays club in college (not interested in playing for their D1 school, just attending games) |
Anonymous
This is not true. Ask any volleyball parent. I’ve been spending many hours driving to pre tryout clinics for my middle school DD and spending too much money so she hopefully gets looked at during upcoming tryouts, and then we can spend thousands if she makes a team. The taller the kid, the bigger the advantage in this expensive sport. |
Anonymous
athletic doesn’t necessarily mean size .. answer the question |
Anonymous
did they get an offer? See I have the opposite kids, summer on time, 90% for height and weight |
Anonymous
How come it’s so expensive? I’ve heard a lot of girls want to play so they can wear bikinis or short bike shorts and put their hair cute. But maybe it’s just fun. There’s no running up and down a large field or basketball court. |
Anonymous
I think it really depends on the sport and the position in the sport. My observation is that for some reason sports that smaller kids can excel at aren't as popular as you would expect given how many smaller kids there are. Soccer, baseball, cricket for example. Baseball height can be an advantage for a couple positions pitcher or first base, otherwise it's not good. Football, height doesn't really matter, except for QB and tight end maybe defensive end. Being tall myself. It's only really an advantage in swimming and ball sports that involve throwing, maybe some racket sports where reach comes into play. That leaves all kinds of sports open, gymnastics, weightlifting, track and field, soccer, baseball, what about cycling. I can't wait until people figure out cricket is an international money sport. |
Anonymous
Any sport that has gatekeeping is going to be less competitive. Fencing is expensive, we don't have a lot of athletic poor kids going into fencing. Basketball is cheap and ubiquitous, the whole world can compete. Basketball is more competitive than fencing. If fencing was cheap the fencing events at the olympics would look a lot like boxing events at the olympics |