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[quote=Anonymous]I can only speak about girls soccer but as a comparison to baseball..

2-3x practices/wk.  We started Rec in K and DD wanted to get better.  She drank the KoolAid and begged to do Rec + pretravel basically so she's been playing now for 6 years.  I feel like she's a pro lol!

We play through all weather except thunder and lightning.  This means 30 degrees and 90 degrees.  Through storm winds, flood rains and everything in between.  This is NO Joke weather I'm talking about.  As in I cannot believe my kid or me are out here for hours.

It's a commitment and it's energy and time that will make you feel like a professional chauffeur.  My second job is driving as I have another kid with activities but not travel sport.  My weekends are all soccer all the time - summer is the only season off. My kid is pretty good so we play a lot of tournaments but not too team so we still actually have a life but mostly it is soccer.  We do music as well but her teammates all typically play multi sports.  This means even more driving for parents and I bow down to them! I couldn't do it. A game is a commitment of typically 4 hrs once you figure travel game and call time it's more if it's a drive of course.  It can be your entire day.

But I am going to say it's the best thing we could have done.  My kid is a straight A student who has learned how to win but also how to lose.  My kid is damn healthy and isn't at least on electronics all weekend like friends not playing a travel sport.  Rec would never have given us the structure by which to learn and play her sport at a respectable level.  We do personal training sometimes as well as many do on higher level teams.  But we have zero aspirations of a college scholarship.  Our intention is to play club until HS and focus then on HS only.

I think that no matter what travel sport you choose, the conceits and pros/cons are similar at a certain level of play.  It's about showing up and working hard.  It's physical and takes a lot of energy on both your kid and your part too.  It's money and time no 2 ways about it.  We are not a die hard sports family but as a matter of principle, I'm a fan of travel sports.  Not if it's unreasonable in how far to travel however and also if the coaches or teams are unhealthy but I think being a part of a team and losing games is a brilliant way of socialization for kids.

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