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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm thinking of sports like basketball and tennis. How important is it at this age (8-10) to be on teams and be in skills clinics with a pro coach? DS wants to be competitive and be able to join the team in 6th grade and is in 3rd grade but our family schedule is pretty busy this year. Can he just shoot hoops in the backyard and play wall ball tennis at the park, or will be at a big disadvantage? I will just go ahead and sign him up if everyone says it's necessary to make teams, but if not I'd honestly just rather have us relax at home for 2 nights per week instead of filling all the time! [/quote]

Depends how competitive your schools are. Only 30 percent make the select rec team in 4/5 grade.  Only 20 percent make the A or B team in middle and 5 percent make V in HS at our very competitive high school. It’s a mix of genetics obviously but then out of the kids who have the athletic genetics and height, it comes down to who played in club or not. You cannot just show up and expect to make a team  area. The anomalies that do were playing multiple other sports at a high level during that time and switched over or transferred and were recruited or redshirting in 8th due to sports. [/quote]

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