Reply to Average child quits sports at 11

Forum Index » Soccer

Reply to "Average child quits sports at 11"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate that my kids need to play soccer both spring and fall even in rec to hold their spot on their teams. They’d love to play baseball but we’re not doing both. DH coaches soccer, so we’re even more stuck with sticking it out two seasons.

The field hockey stats are really interesting to me. No idea kids started that young, and it surprises me they stick with it longer than other sports on average. I didn’t start until high school and have seen few early youth programs. Anyone know what’s going on there?[/quote]

Field hockey for kids, at least where we are in NoVA, is still unique in that most clubs run it with a clinic format. So for instance, my daughter started at age 8 in 3rd grade and they practice once a week for 2 hours on Sunday evenings. The first half of the season is all practice and the second half is a combo of games and practice. It's low stress, low cost, it's fun, and she can do it while she's also dancing and taking piano lessons. She had asked to play soccer but we settled on FH as a compromise because she didn't want to give up her other activities. She loves it and has every intention of sticking with it until she ages out of the club after 8th grade, and will then either try to play in high school or drop it completely in favor of something else.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics