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[quote=Anonymous] It’s nice to let kids explore multiple sports at a young age. The move to travel is probably earlier for a sport like soccer than for something like lacrosse. Ideally we wanted DS to be a multi-sport athlete but it was a battle as he got older. He moved to travel soccer pretty early at u9 (8 yo). He begged us to do it, so we spoke to the rec coach (a college player) who encouraged us to have him tryout since he was much more motivated and skilled than his peers. So we let him do it with the agreement we would never push and we would reevaluate if he wasn’t having fun. He did rec baseball and basketball as well but the club team had to be the priority and he missed most rec practices and a lot of rec games. In middle school he decided he wanted to give travel baseball a chance so he took a break from travel soccer because his soccer club said no way to playing both. He had no issue breaking into travel baseball at 11. But he didn’t end up enjoying it as much so he quit baseball and went back to travel soccer.  I will say with travel soccer there can be a huge gap by middle school between kids who have been training 3x a week and playing competitive games and kids who haven’t. It’s much tougher to catch up. I don’t think it’s because players who started young keep roster spots because many teams make players try out each year and happily take new players. It’s just the gap grows too big for many kids to overcome. But of course there are always exceptions! [/quote]

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