How late is too late for practice?

[Anonymous]

What time would you consider "too late" for practice to end? I was just going through some practice schedules and noticed a few like this:

U9
U10
U11 6:30-8:00
U12 7:30-9:00
U13 8:00-9:30

Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but those seemed to be some pretty late practice times for some kids (who have school the next morning).

[Anonymous]

8 is the latest I would tolerate. There is an issue with having enough field space to practice. Evey soccer field in the area is packed weeknights

[Anonymous]

DC had travel practice from 8-9:30 in high school. The oldest kids got the latest practices. It was fine. Even the high school varsity team practiced from 7:30-9:00 a couple days a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 is the latest I would tolerate. There is an issue with having enough field space to practice. Evey soccer field in the area is packed weeknights

I agree and birth year change makes it worse for kids with late bdays.

My kid won’t even be 14 as a U14 this year. He just turned 13 in December. He won’t be in HS for the 8-9:30 U-15 practice. He’ll be in 8th grade getting the bus at 6:50 am at a time when he needs the most sleep since he hasn’t had growth spurt/puberty yet.

Our team has kids that drive from 30 minutes- 1 hour away so the late times are particularly bad.

Next year, he will get the 8-9:30pm slot. They don’t get off the field until 9:45pm and then it’s a 35 minute drive home. Shower, snack and it’s way too late. We need to pick something closer next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 is the latest I would tolerate. There is an issue with having enough field space to practice. Evey soccer field in the area is packed weeknights

I agree and birth year change makes it worse for kids with late bdays.

My kid won’t even be 14 as a U14 this year. He just turned 13 in December. He won’t be in HS for the 8-9:30 U-15 practice. He’ll be in 8th grade getting the bus at 6:50 am at a time when he needs the most sleep since he hasn’t had growth spurt/puberty yet.

Our team has kids that drive from 30 minutes- 1 hour away so the late times are particularly bad.

Next year, he will get the 8-9:30pm slot. They don’t get off the field until 9:45pm and then it’s a 35 minute drive home. Shower, snack and it’s way too late. We need to pick something closer next year.

It’s the by-product of having too many teams in a Club. Late practices and 4:15pm for younger kids that don’t even get off the bus until 4:05pm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What time would you consider "too late" for practice to end? I was just going through some practice schedules and noticed a few like this:

U9
U10
U11 6:30-8:00
U12 7:30-9:00
U13 8:00-9:30

Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but those seemed to be some pretty late practice times for some kids (who have school the next morning).

I'm like you. I'd find the last two slots to be disruptive of family dynamics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What time would you consider "too late" for practice to end? I was just going through some practice schedules and noticed a few like this:

U9
U10
U11 6:30-8:00
U12 7:30-9:00
U13 8:00-9:30

Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but those seemed to be some pretty late practice times for some kids (who have school the next morning).

I'm like you. I'd find the last two slots to be disruptive of family dynamics.

I’m concerned with lack is enough sleep for growing kids, and on school nights.

[Anonymous]

I'm on the other side of the coin, NO practices before 6 would be my vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm on the other side of the coin, NO practices before 6 would be my vote.

In a perfect world--between 6-8pm.

But, because I work from home and my middle school kids are home at 3pm. I'm fine with 5pm. The late practices are sh*t because they have to be up by 6:30am. 9/9:30pm is too late for an end time because they shower, need to eat again and it's way after 10pm. On non-soccer nights (12 and 13 years old), they are asleep by 8:30pm.

[Anonymous]

For my U15 kid, I'd like 7:30-9 or 8-9:30. Right now they have 6:30 - 8 and they sometimes have to go straight from school to practice when they have sports practice until 5:30/6. I think next year it will be later which is better for us.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For my U15 kid, I'd like 7:30-9 or 8-9:30. Right now they have 6:30 - 8 and they sometimes have to go straight from school to practice when they have sports practice until 5:30/6. I think next year it will be later which is better for us.

Ugh. We will be U15 next year, but my kid will only be an 8th grader/still only 13 next September. Those times are way too late for us. Anything ending after 8.30 at the latest will suck.

[Anonymous]

I'm actually thinking of switching to a team that practices at an unlit field so that they have to be done by a certain hour.