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[quote=Anonymous]My 9 year old is very athletic and active, but not very focused.  She has played a couple of different sports, but isn't so "into" anything that she wants to really commit to practices, etc.  I think this is fine -- she's still so young and pretty immature, and I think it's a little surprising that there are so many 8 and 9 years olds that are willing to dedicate themselves seriously to a sport. BUT I do worry that she will be shut out of all the sports by middle school or high school because all the kids have been playing competitively for so long.  I was totally not athletic as a kid, so this wasn't an issue for me, and I'm fine with the idea of a kid never being on any sports team.  But she's fast and strong and very active, so I do think she'll want to do something, once she gets the maturity to want to focus on something.  Are there sports that one can jump into at age 12-14 -- in this area of the country -- where there are a lot of beginners?  (And which hopefully do not require a ton of travel or expensive equipment, like horse-riding or something like that...)[/quote]

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