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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a point in favor of playing - and obviously only an example - my daughter played high level travel for years.  (This was just as the ECNL started).  She then played 4 years of college soccer.  Along the way she added personal confidence, a bit at a time, as well as self assurance in her own abilities, and a lot of knowledge/experience establishing the benefits of  perseverance and effort.  Finally, she gained and told advantage of many opportunities to learn and employ leadership skills.

Kids and young adults can gain those experiences and work on those attributes from many other activities besides sports.  But, they can also get them from sports.

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My son and daughter played soccer from the age of 5 until they turned 12.  At that age, my wife and I moved them over to golf and tennis.  Daughter is playing tennis at a D1 school and son is playing golf at a D2 school.  My wife and I are very happy with our choices because tennis and golf are sports for life with open door to networking and better ROI.[/quote]

Do you need to be good at either to join the country club? [/quote]

you need to be able to afford the dues. Even without a membership, the coaching and greens fees to get good enough to play in college will dwarf the cost of travel soccer [/quote]

I'm speaking as an adult. The point being, the ROI because of networking is accomplished by joining the Country Club not by actually being proficient at either sport. Golf in particular can be picked up at any age and any reasonable athlete can learn the game in short order and not completely embarrass themselves because there are many who play who are in the same boat.

Tennis, not so easy to pick up but lets not act as if country club networking is based on the actual ability but rather the social aspect as well as the self filtering nature of being a member of an expensive club. [/quote]

Dude, I play golf at Chevy Chase CC and everyone there wants to play with good golfers.  I am a former D1 swimmer and I’ve been playing golf for the past ten years and I still embarrass myself with my golf score quite often.  Golf is hard.  I can tell you from my personal experience is that a lot of business is being done on the golf course.  That’s where my company CEO hired the company CFO.[/quote]

Golf is hard, paying for Chevy Chase CC is harder. Get over yourself.[/quote]

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