What's a good sport for short kids?

[Anonymous]

Agree with PPs. The best sport is any sport they are interested in!

My DD is quite heavy for her age and if I had encouraged her to do a sport based on her body type, she wouldn’t be the amazing figure skater she is today. No she will never go to nationals but neither will any of her skinny short figure skating friends. She adores skating and Im so glad she has a sport that she loves.

[Anonymous]

Depending on age, fencing, tae kwon do, track and field (shortest (well under 5 ft) person I ever met growing up was a champion hurdler). dance, gymnastics. I can't think of too many sports that are highly impacted by height, except the obvious like basketball and volleyball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PPs. The best sport is any sport they are interested in!

My DD is quite heavy for her age and if I had encouraged her to do a sport based on her body type, she wouldn’t be the amazing figure skater she is today. No she will never go to nationals but neither will any of her skinny short figure skating friends. She adores skating and Im so glad she has a sport that she loves.

I'm disappointed that there are only a handful of replies like this. Way to give your kid a complex, OP, by limiting their options for sports. If your child loved basketball and hated soccer, would you still make them play soccer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking for something for DD who's rather short, 25 percentile.

I knew someone who played on their h.s. basketball team with one arm. The other was amputated at the elbow. I doubt her parents were sitting around thinking, "What can a one-armed kid play?"

Let your DD pick the sport she likes.

+1

Your kid, statistically, isn't getting a scholarship, playing professionally, or going to the olympics no matter what sport she picks. So let her just play what she likes. All that really matters is she's having fun and staying active.

--a 5'10" tall gymnast

[Anonymous]

Coxswain on a rowing crew

[Anonymous]

Why not track or horseback riding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not soccer? Other than goalie.

Hard no. Too many reasons to detail here but culture is the main problem. Coaches. They want American football wide receivers.

If you were in Italy, Spain, Israel - then maybe no. Really regret DC’s choice.

[Anonymous]

How old is she?

[Anonymous]

Rock climbing!

[Anonymous]

ANY SPORT!

If DC will not be a professional or collegiate athlete, it will not matter at all. Just let kid have fun learning to play and being active.

[Anonymous]

Surfing, skateboarding are the only ones that are cool and you have an advantage .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old is she?

9 years older than she was in 2015 when this thread was created...

[Anonymous]

DD pitched against a HS team with a bunch of shorter girls and it gave her fits, it was so hard to find the strike zone. We have a couple real short kids on our team who are super fast and always looking to steal bases.

[Anonymous]

Don’t limit her based on size. Let her try different sports and then let her do what she likes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:soccer and gymnastics

my 5'6 daughter was the shorty for her very competitive softball team

The average height for a teen girl is still around 5’4” so it’s doubtful that 5’6” was the shorty.

There are plenty of girls in sports that are shorter than the average 5’4”. She can try out any sport that interests her.