is soccer coach trying to help my kid? or dump him off on another coach..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a sports commitment to a university is in the cards (in any sport) then this may be the time to truly focus.

Getting recruited for a sport with a flat baseline measurement (track, rowing, swimming) is far easier than being 1 of 11 on a team that is like 1000s of other teams in the country. It's much easier to be judged in a sport like cross country than it is soccer.

this ^ sooo much better than travel clubs with coach personalities/agendas, other parents, playing time concerns etc etc - just run fast

[Anonymous]

encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

what were his times in track - OP actually provided specific times, which helped provide context. If you provide your sons times it would tell a more
meaningful story - one way or another. If your kid had a “nice to have on team” time,
then the decision to stay on soccer team is obvious

lol weird aggressive response. the kids times are 100% irrelevant to his post.

the point was the kid thought track boring esp conpared to soccer despite being the the best at his school. just like the others.

everyone seems to agree w the phenomenon. why so sensitive re kids not finding track cool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

what were his times in track - OP actually provided specific times, which helped provide context. If you provide your sons times it would tell a more
meaningful story - one way or another. If your kid had a “nice to have on team” time,
then the decision to stay on soccer team is obvious

lol weird aggressive response. the kids times are 100% irrelevant to his post.

the point was the kid thought track boring esp conpared to soccer despite being the the best at his school. just like the others.

everyone seems to agree w the phenomenon. why so sensitive re kids not finding track cool?

No, “everyone” doesn’t agree with this phenomenon. I’ve seen it go both ways, kids picking track over soccer because they like the sport and the team culture better, as well as fast kids getting recruited from track to soccer and excelling at it. Both sports attract speed.

[Anonymous]

kid def does not like the x country kids - very odd bunch on his team - sure it’s not like that everywhere but his team is weirdos in his opinion. Soccer kids cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

most kids do cross country because they aren’t good enough to make team sports in hs - this is basically every kid i’ve ever known to do cross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

most kids do cross country because they aren’t good enough to make team sports in hs - this is basically every kid i’ve ever known to do cross

Might depends on where you live. In our area the HS team is mostly made up on full-time runners and they are one of the top in the state. The middle schools have very strong cross country teams that allow kids to do their own sport plus xc. That helps to expose kids early on and then decide what to do by high school.

[Anonymous]

Xc is for weirdos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Xc is for weirdos

And yet I don’t see any xc country kids posting “weirdo” over and over and over and over again on two different sports threads. Are they following you around? Do you hear voices?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

most kids do cross country because they aren’t good enough to make team sports in hs - this is basically every kid i’ve ever known to do cross

The truth and nothing but the truth so help me Ja

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

most kids do cross country because they aren’t good enough to make team sports in hs - this is basically every kid i’ve ever known to do cross

The truth and nothing but the truth so help me Ja

Sadly, this. The best XC runners are the kids that didn't make the soccer team.

And the best track runners are the football players staying fit in the offseason

It's the truth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:encouraging and helping a kid to use his prowess at track and cross country to get a slot at a Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin or Middlebury is what I consider a job well done by mom and dad. Used a smart kid sport like running and avoided all the BS that comes with club sports - bravo to those parents

You could make that argument with any individual sport

excellent point - most other individual sports require crazy obsessed parents getting private lessons/coaching etc - cross country is wonderful as doesn’t need any of that - most normalized sport ever

most kids do cross country because they aren’t good enough to make team sports in hs - this is basically every kid i’ve ever known to do cross

The truth and nothing but the truth so help me Ja

Sadly, this. The best XC runners are the kids that didn't make the soccer team.

And the best track runners are the football players staying fit in the offseason

It's the truth

Give it a rest and quit sockpuppeting your weird anti-xc crusade.