Nearly all of the travel sports obsessed kids who were “recruited” for college seem to quit?

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Anonymous wrote:Sports crazy parents can’t admit defeat after ten years of all their summers, weekends and nights burned — their ego needs their kid to “play at the next level.” Non-selective colleges exploit this. So Suzy and Jacob likely go off to some obscure nobodyville college, they discover they are free to do whatever they want and crazy mom and dad can’t make them play anymore. Whether at a decent college or not, they’re just not into it. And who can blame them? All that free time pissed away to ride the bench, or if you play, it’s in front of a tiny crowd.

Assuming you’re a parent, this is a really pathetic post. It’s dripping in jealousy.

A sad attempt to feel better about your own parenting choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Williams in her senior year...

This thread obviously is not about student-athlete kids attending an elite college like Williams.

Sure it is. You just don’t like it because it doesn’t fit your narrative.

This thread is very clearly about sports crazy families whose kids end up at obscure and/or unimpressive colleges.

No. This thread is about a OP believing no kids actually end up at Williams. She believes every single kid either burns out or ends up at a Podunk college.


Our experiences that most of the really good players use sports to get into a really great college.

The schools U19 Bethesda players currently are committed to include Stanford, Brown, Georgetown, Williams, Cornell, Colgate, Air Force...…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sports crazy parents can’t admit defeat after ten years of all their summers, weekends and nights burned — their ego needs their kid to “play at the next level.” Non-selective colleges exploit this. So Suzy and Jacob likely go off to some obscure nobodyville college, they discover they are free to do whatever they want and crazy mom and dad can’t make them play anymore. Whether at a decent college or not, they’re just not into it. And who can blame them? All that free time pissed away to ride the bench, or if you play, it’s in front of a tiny crowd.

+1,000. Now they’re getting defensive because they don’t like being called out.

[Anonymous]

I think the worst are the travel club baseball parents. They post on FB incessantly while their kids are playing for these teams (e parents themselves are always dressed in some baseball attire), they post with the family at Nats or Orioles games, and when the kids go off to college and quit sports, no more FB posts, yay!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sports crazy parents can’t admit defeat after ten years of all their summers, weekends and nights burned — their ego needs their kid to “play at the next level.” Non-selective colleges exploit this. So Suzy and Jacob likely go off to some obscure nobodyville college, they discover they are free to do whatever they want and crazy mom and dad can’t make them play anymore. Whether at a decent college or not, they’re just not into it. And who can blame them? All that free time pissed away to ride the bench, or if you play, it’s in front of a tiny crowd.

+1,000. Now they’re getting defensive because they don’t like being called out.

Your post is what you hope happens to athletes and your jealous that they get to apply to 1 college with a guaranteed admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the worst are the travel club baseball parents. They post on FB incessantly while their kids are playing for these teams (e parents themselves are always dressed in some baseball attire), they post with the family at Nats or Orioles games, and when the kids go off to college and quit sports, no more FB posts, yay!

So you’re one of those “friends” on Facebook that hate on happy posts.

Jealousy is a bad look.

[Anonymous]

Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain.

Thanks! Did your third son play in a club or for the school team during HS? If so, for how many years?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain.

Different poster, but I’ve always read that if you are not a recruited athlete, then your sports participation counts the same as any other ordinary EC. Colleges like to see that kids have interests and activities outside of school, but don’t particularly care which ones. I’m not convinced that being a team captain makes too much of a difference for colleges, but it’s usually a great learning experience for kids.

I’ve have two kids in college now. One played soccer for a middling club team and in HS, and is an excellent student. I’m fairly certain that the colleges that accepted her cared far more about her scores than anything else. Like the PP’s son, she is playing club soccer in college now and absolutely loves it. She was always just as serious about the sport as my other kid, who is playing D1. I don’t know what drives people like OP and other posters to be so nasty about travel sports. They have brought nothing but pleasure for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the worst are the travel club baseball parents. They post on FB incessantly while their kids are playing for these teams (e parents themselves are always dressed in some baseball attire), they post with the family at Nats or Orioles games, and when the kids go off to college and quit sports, no more FB posts, yay!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain.

Different poster, but I’ve always read that if you are not a recruited athlete, then your sports participation counts the same as any other ordinary EC. Colleges like to see that kids have interests and activities outside of school, but don’t particularly care which ones. I’m not convinced that being a team captain makes too much of a difference for colleges, but it’s usually a great learning experience for kids.

I’ve have two kids in college now. One played soccer for a middling club team and in HS, and is an excellent student. I’m fairly certain that the colleges that accepted her cared far more about her scores than anything else. Like the PP’s son, she is playing club soccer in college now and absolutely loves it. She was always just as serious about the sport as my other kid, who is playing D1. I don’t know what drives people like OP and other posters to be so nasty about travel sports. They have brought nothing but pleasure for us.

Thanks for this input!

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Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions? Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen? Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain.

Different poster, but I’ve always read that if you are not a recruited athlete, then your sports participation counts the same as any other ordinary EC. Colleges like to see that kids have interests and activities outside of school, but don’t particularly care which ones. I’m not convinced that being a team captain makes too much of a difference for colleges, but it’s usually a great learning experience for kids.

I’ve have two kids in college now. One played soccer for a middling club team and in HS, and is an excellent student. I’m fairly certain that the colleges that accepted her cared far more about her scores than anything else. Like the PP’s son, she is playing club soccer in college now and absolutely loves it. She was always just as serious about the sport as my other kid, who is playing D1. I don’t know what drives people like OP and other posters to be so nasty about travel sports. They have brought nothing but pleasure for us.

I don't get it either. Some of these posts are just so weird.

FWIW, my travel sports siblings still reminisce fondly with my parents about the time they spent together for tournaments. Also, they played college, and have since become very successful professionally. Sports has only been a good thing for the family.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the worst are the travel club baseball parents. They post on FB incessantly while their kids are playing for these teams (e parents themselves are always dressed in some baseball attire), they post with the family at Nats or Orioles games, and when the kids go off to college and quit sports, no more FB posts, yay!

So you’re one of those “friends” on Facebook that hate on happy posts.

Jealousy is a bad look.

+1 just unfollow. Facebook "unfollow" feature is a big blessing.

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I notice they all go to schools they could get into without the sport.