For boys: team sports to start in middle school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never for baseball.
My son and his friends have high level played travel ball for 6 years (on top of Little League for the first 4) and we have no idea if any of them will make their high school teams.
These are kids who have lived and breathed baseball for the better part of a decade. It's just so competitive in this area. It stinks.

Not even REMOTELY true. My son made JV, did not play much. Then made JV again and started mid way through the season. Made Varsity this year as a Junior and is starting. NEVER played baseball until 9th grade and all of his teammate played years and years in travel baseball. He was always a kid that never wanted to commit to s sport and just had fun at the rec level up until high school. We are in ashburn, highly ranked team.

Is your son a beast? I guess if your kid is really strong and freakishly coordinated then it could happen. How many other kids that have been playing for years didn't make the team? You note that all the other players have been playing travel for years. What makes you think OPs child would be the anomaly like your kid?

[Anonymous]

So much is sized based and just ability to run. The sports for average sized folks that are skilled based are so much harder to pick up.

Tim Tebow still is in mnor leagues. Playing for Mets in Syracuse

[Anonymous]

Competitive thinking

[Anonymous]

Wrestling or cross country.