Do all sports favor the big kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

Keep coping.

Size is just as important as skill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

Keep coping.

Size is just as important as skill

Found the infantry meathead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

Keep coping.

Size is just as important as skill

Found the infantry meathead.

If size didn't matter than college and mlb rosters wouldn't be filled with genetic freaks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

Keep coping.

Size is just as important as skill

Found the infantry meathead.

If size didn't matter than college and mlb rosters wouldn't be filled with genetic freaks

If size mattered more than skill, than PP should be in the MLB if Mookie Bets can be.

[Anonymous]

Y’all. None of your kids are going to play professional sports. And most aren’t going to play in college. If they love a sport and are good at it, they’ll find a way to shine up to a certain point. I don’t push my 5’5” fifth grader into gymnastics or horse racing but if they wanted to do it, great. Going pro in the thing isn’t the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

Oh, you want to pick on girls do ya. No wonder you got kicked out of your club. Sawed off ego and all.

I bet you never had to special order pants tough stuff. Upset because there are somethings that just aren't your thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

Oh, you want to pick on girls do ya. No wonder you got kicked out of your club. Sawed off ego and all.

I bet you never had to special order pants tough stuff. Upset because there are somethings that just aren't your thing.

Aged out, silly. Not kicked out. And he played in college. Currently in his last year of law school while your daughter is trying to find size 46 pantsuits. LOL.

[Anonymous]

My short (5’3”) DD has a height complex now after playing volleyball. She’s so fast, agile, has a killer serve but is overlooked year after year for the tall girls. DD can even block because her vertical is so high but obviously not as consistently as the 6,0” girls can. She plays the short girl position (libero) but it’s hard to see her work so hard and get dismissed by coaches for her height. She told me she is reading the writing on the wall and is thinking of quitting after 5 years of club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

Oh, you want to pick on girls do ya. No wonder you got kicked out of your club. Sawed off ego and all.

I bet you never had to special order pants tough stuff. Upset because there are somethings that just aren't your thing.

Aged out, silly. Not kicked out. And he played in college. Currently in his last year of law school while your daughter is trying to find size 46 pantsuits. LOL.

For some bottom of the barrel D3 school likely? I am sure he would love to find a 6’2” volleyball player so his own kid doesn’t suffer the same fate as him.

[Anonymous]

Climbing. Not all the best climbers are tall and lanky - although many are. There are some really really short climbers. It’s about strength.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My short (5’3”) DD has a height complex now after playing volleyball. She’s so fast, agile, has a killer serve but is overlooked year after year for the tall girls. DD can even block because her vertical is so high but obviously not as consistently as the 6,0” girls can. She plays the short girl position (libero) but it’s hard to see her work so hard and get dismissed by coaches for her height. She told me she is reading the writing on the wall and is thinking of quitting after 5 years of club.

They artificially created libero though, they say it's because center blockers weren't very good at digging, but that's two sides of the same coin.

So, like as was posted above, it's not actually "unfair" in the way you think it is. They made rules explicitly to help short players who can't block or spike.

I mean they did the same thing in baseball, why is the strike zone based on the player's height. It's actually very unfair for taller players. It would have been easy like cricket, to have something behind them where the ball has to go in the zone. Like a frame or something. Same for everyone.

[Anonymous]

The answer regarding size is not the same for girls and boys. While certain sports favor smaller or larger athletes, girls sports has what I would call a larger grace scale in terms of acceptable span of sizes because on the balance far fewer girls play organized athletics. I’m talking team sports here. DD was able to play through HS despite relatively small stature because she had strong ball skills and the team needed more players to fill out the roster. She was not a starter but got a decent amount of playing time. DS on the other hand is on the smaller side but is an outstanding natural athlete. He’s had a much tougher road because coaches barely give him a second look at tryouts. He’s finally growing and hoping that will help him with club opportunities. FWIW the size issue really started to come into play for DS around 13u.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer regarding size is not the same for girls and boys. While certain sports favor smaller or larger athletes, girls sports has what I would call a larger grace scale in terms of acceptable span of sizes because on the balance far fewer girls play organized athletics. I’m talking team sports here. DD was able to play through HS despite relatively small stature because she had strong ball skills and the team needed more players to fill out the roster. She was not a starter but got a decent amount of playing time. DS on the other hand is on the smaller side but is an outstanding natural athlete. He’s had a much tougher road because coaches barely give him a second look at tryouts. He’s finally growing and hoping that will help him with club opportunities. FWIW the size issue really started to come into play for DS around 13u.

The hostility towards taller players is counterproductive though. Most smaller players that make it are able to get along with the tallest players on the team as sort of tandems. You pitch and I catch, I dig and you spike, I throw you receive, you post I handle the ball.