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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.[/quote]

Incredibly different. Where I live, there have been field hockey and lacrosse teams, for generations, in school districts at all income levels.

This is not even close to the same thing as an individual, niche sport, often played outside of school and favored by well to do families.[/quote]

I was talking about at the college level, and where I live they’re rich kid sports. [/quote]

This is true of most non-revenue sports, gymnastics, swim, volleyball, even baseball. Basically any sport that is pay to play at the level where recruitment occurs is going to be a rich kid sport [/quote]

Baseball a rich kid sport? Get serious. [b]Travel doesn’t mean rich.[/b] My kids played travel and many of the families were semi-rural, working class, and drove beater trucks. If they were rich they were being awfully sneaky about it. [/quote]

It means that or serious debt. [/quote]

Both of our kids played a travel sport. DS played in a league where a number of the players' parents were working class. In fact, just a few of us owned cars. We traded our sedan in for a SUV in order to take more players on his team to games. A number of these kids had a shot at D1 scholarships. Perhaps not to the most academically rigorous schools, but still places they would've not have been able to swing unless on a scholarship.

DD played on a higher end team. There were less than a handful of players on financial aid. Most of the players on the team wanted to play in college - a few of the players on financial aid got D1 scholarships. Again, schools not the most academically rigorous, but certainly was a huge help to their families.

That said, we met TONS of people at tournaments who were putting it all into their kid getting a college scholarship and I sometimes wondered if it would work in the end. One dad clearly thought we were nuts as DD was not working to be recruited. I think a lot of tournament travel goes on credit cards and stays there for months till paid off.[/quote]

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