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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 3 kids in travel sports now.  [b]The big benefit (goal) i see is playing in HS[/b] and being on varsity.  For many sports, only the travel kids make the team.  I don't know about college impact - we aren't that far yet.

Learning a skill well is also a benefit.

THe big downside is tryouts.  In our club they have 3 teams per age group (most of the time) and so kids move up and down and sometimes out.  Its very stressful and sometimes the decisions don't make sense.[/quote]

At least for soccer, I heard that the better kids are not the ones playing for their HS teams.  Is this true?  This is obviously not true for all sports, but for soccer I heard the better kids are in travel soccer, and some of the more elite clubs don't even allow them to play for their HS or travel is too intense to do both HS and travel. [/quote]

There are 2 Academy clubs. 2 age groups for high school. So there are about 80 high school kids in the whole DC area playing academy. That leaves plenty of room for good kids to be playing HS soccer. Most kids really want to play for their high school, and many end up leaving the academy programs and returning to their HS teams.

Many of the travel teams in MD and DC take off the fall season so that it doesn't conflict with the high school season. The high school season is done by early to mid November.[/quote]

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