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[quote=Anonymous]I’m curious if anyone has noticed trends in participation, competitiveness or opportunities in their child’s sport and specific age group after pandemic interruptions?

I’m asking because it’s really obvious in my DD’s sports and age group as well as my HS parent friends’ kids’ sports.

-HS no-cut sports like x-c and rowing: numbers are just starting to come back up to 2019 levels and extra eligibility years discouraged a lot of athletes who were on the bubble of being recruited

-baseball for 8-9 year olds: numbers are way up compared to the age groups older and younger, and the teams that current 3rd graders were on last summer and are on this fall are stronger than older kids. My pet theory is that this age group didn’t have their last year of T-ball so avoiding the boredom of it kept more athletic kids in the mix or open to trying it for the first time in 2021

-gymnastics for 8 year old girls: my DD is in this age group and compared to girls a year older and younger than her, she has very few same-age peers in her team; girls younger than her had a continuous early experience and it seems like that’s helped them zoom ahead. I think closures in my area forced girls who stuck with gymnastics to start pre-team to all over again, even though it felt like they were still progressing from where they had left off at the time.

-swimming in 9-10 age group: Club looks normal but lacks depth in strokes beyond freestyle. There are 1-2 stars but a lot of kids look like they are still struggling to put everything together. Summer numbers were still way down in this age group and kids in their last year of 8&u. I think these kids missed the last year of swim lessons/first year of minis and got stuck on post-pandemic lesson waitlists. Feels like this age group has a permanent hole in it.

Any other sports/age observations?[/quote]

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