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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A story.  Good friends oldest was a very good athlete and he particularly wanted to play college basketball.  6 foot 1 inch point guard.  Captain of his big catholic school team.  Played on a very competitive AAU team.  But, when push came to shove the big conference coaches thought he was not quick enough for a point guard.  So - off to a D3 school to play.  Freshman year he grows another 4 inches.  Now, as a 6’5” really good ball handling player almost everyone wanted him.  He transferred to a good D1 program.  Had they redshirted him he would have had those 4 inches and recruiting would have been very different.

My daughter played college soccer.  She has an October birthday.  She started K as a young five kid.  But, after the year we decided to hold her back a year.  She was just not ready.  So instead of a young 5 she was an old 5 starting out.  It turned out several friends did the same with their kid so she was not alone.  I coached my kids in rec soccer and my “veteran” K team was a hoot.

With girls it is way less important as they don’t have those second growth spurts that a fair number of guys get between 18-20.  
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Academics should be more important than sports.  Holding back for a year to hope a kid grows and gets better makes no sense.  Reality is now is that boy playing as his career?  Probably not.[/quote]

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