What do travel sports obsessed parents do after the youngest kid goes off to college?

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine they are not spending their time wondering about what random acquaintances are doing on DCUM, which already puts them far ahead of OP in the game of life.

This. Only one of my kids played travel, so we’re not the parents that OP is describing. But I know parents like that and they’re all nice, successful people who cared about and supported their kids. Pretty sure they’ll all be fine.

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The pissy responses to this post are interesting to me. Why so defensive. It’s a legitimate question framed fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pissy responses to this post are interesting to me. Why so defensive. It’s a legitimate question framed fine.

Lol, if you reread the OP, this was pretty clearly an opinion framed in the form of a question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know a husband and wife whose youngest is off to college this fall. He will not play college sports. This couple's entire and I mean entire identity for the past like fifteen years has been carting their kids to practices, training, camps, and out of town tournaments. Every waking moment it seems. They're only in their late 40s. Do travel sports couples like this struggle with their departure from that sporty orbit and all of their newfound free time?

LOL divorce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We survived. That first year we woke up on Saturday mornings and couldn't believe that we didn't have a soccer game or track meet or some other event to go to. We could sleep until noon! We went to Italy for a week in September. We went skiing for a random week in February, not spring break.

Similar here. Plus, lots of time for great sex!

[Anonymous]

Transfer it to the college sports teams as spectators.

[Anonymous]

I play pickleball in tournaments up and down the East Coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know a husband and wife whose youngest is off to college this fall. He will not play college sports. This couple's entire and I mean entire identity for the past like fifteen years has been carting their kids to practices, training, camps, and out of town tournaments. Every waking moment it seems. They're only in their late 40s. Do travel sports couples like this struggle with their departure from that sporty orbit and all of their newfound free time?

You sound like a jealous nutcase.

[Anonymous]

My son is a D1 athlete so we travel all of Spring to see him play.

But I learned to play piano, hike, play pickleball, do yoga, paint, steam a ton.

I also travel every other weekend to visit siblings, roommate from college, go to friends beach houses/lake house, travel for weddings (3 this year)

I did a 3 week cross country trip over the summer with a friend from HS.

I also work full time and volunteer mentoring people to interview for jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know a husband and wife whose youngest is off to college this fall. He will not play college sports. This couple's entire and I mean entire identity for the past like fifteen years has been carting their kids to practices, training, camps, and out of town tournaments. Every waking moment it seems. They're only in their late 40s. Do travel sports couples like this struggle with their departure from that sporty orbit and all of their newfound free time?

What's it to you? Why the judgment?

We have lots of things we are looking forward to doing when it's over in another year . . . though mine will likely be playing in college (TBD where but we'll know soon enough). We "carted our kid to practices" and so forth b/c she loved it, not because we did. It taught her a lot, kept her fit, kept her out of trouble. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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Such an odd post. We are parents with kids in travel sports, very busy on weekends almost all year around. We love it because our kids love it, and we love spending time with our kids! We only have a few more years to go. And after that, we will get back to doing the things we enjoyed doing together before we had the kids: travel, day trips, hiking, plays and concerts, etc.

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I would encourage people to referee at club and HS level. It’s fun and there is a shortage, especially of good ones. I ref volleyball and travel to tournaments this time of year.

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Anonymous wrote:The pissy responses to this post are interesting to me. Why so defensive. It’s a legitimate question framed fine.

Pissy posts get pissy responses.

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My former boss (who used to travel the east coast with his son) retired from his career government job to start a sports management and training business. He now owns teams and a facility. Not sure if his son played in college.

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We go to their college games!! So fun! I love it.