varsity as a freshman, can we quit now?

[Anonymous]

Kid just made varsity as a freshman following very competitive try-outs.
It only took 7 years of high level travel soccer to get here.
Can I quit driving and get my weekends back now? Anyone else feel this way?
I am done.
College recruitment seems like a crapshoot I'd rather not have to live through.
I'd like to consider the goal reached.

[Anonymous]

absolutely!

[Anonymous]

It’s not about a goal. It’s about the experience… you missed the point.

[Anonymous]

What? Does your kid actually want to play or is this all about you?

[Anonymous]

And 99% of the time club is looked at as a higher level from the soccer community including college recruiters.

[Anonymous]

You have to later become captain or you don’t show enough leadership experience.

[Anonymous]

by 9th grade it's up to your kid now what their goals are for the next 4 years and where they want to go with it. support those goals.

[Anonymous]

now, if they were a U15 "playing up" with U19 that would be impressive. But in high school soccer, the freshman with talent just get pulled up to varsity because it's a waste of time for them playing JV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid just made varsity as a freshman following very competitive try-outs.
It only took 7 years of high level travel soccer to get here.
Can I quit driving and get my weekends back now? Anyone else feel this way?
I am done.
College recruitment seems like a crapshoot I'd rather not have to live through.
I'd like to consider the goal reached.

If you mean can we quit believing HS Soccer is any good, yes, yes we can.

[Anonymous]

Waste of time to play HS ball. Really wish I hadn't. I played D1 in college, but I would've been even better if I skipped HS. I liked the friendship, but our coach was terrible and did a numbewr on my self confidence. Not to mention, playing on the piss poor quality of fields they had for HS was just awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid just made varsity as a freshman following very competitive try-outs.
It only took 7 years of high level travel soccer to get here.
Can I quit driving and get my weekends back now? Anyone else feel this way?
I am done.
College recruitment seems like a crapshoot I'd rather not have to live through.
I'd like to consider the goal reached.

what a selfish biznatch comment. you really have set the bar high for your kid. nice job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid just made varsity as a freshman following very competitive try-outs.
It only took 7 years of high level travel soccer to get here.
Can I quit driving and get my weekends back now? Anyone else feel this way?
I am done.
College recruitment seems like a crapshoot I'd rather not have to live through.
I'd like to consider the goal reached.

what a selfish biznatch comment. you really have set the bar high for your kid. nice job.

Oh please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not about a goal. It’s about the experience… you missed the point.

Exactly. The amount of time I get to spend with my child is priceless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid just made varsity as a freshman following very competitive try-outs.
It only took 7 years of high level travel soccer to get here.
Can I quit driving and get my weekends back now? Anyone else feel this way?
I am done.
College recruitment seems like a crapshoot I'd rather not have to live through.
I'd like to consider the goal reached.

what a selfish biznatch comment. you really have set the bar high for your kid. nice job.

Maybe OP’s DD is at a private school that doesn’t cut anyone but only decides who is on V or JV, or is at one of those many weak MD public HS.

[Anonymous]

Selfish mom