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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole system is ridiculous, and what is more ridiculous is that people support this broken system. You have to play for years just to make it into a high school JV team, and once you make it, you have to spend 20+ hours per week training. It takes time away from academics and other extracurricular.

And all of this time and money invested into sports is for nothing for most parents. Most kids will never play at the NCAA level. It doesn’t matter much for college admissions. I know a kid who has perfect grades and a 35 ACT who was a captain of the varsity football and lacrosse teams (and was class treasurer, NHS president, volunteered, and did part time work), and he got rejected from every remotely selective college. The Ivy Leagues, Notre Dame, Michigan, Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UNC, and UVA all rejected him [/quote]

Break out the 20+ hours of YOUTH and HS training programs please.  I just can't get there with the math and my kid is on an ECNL team and plays AAU basketball.[/quote]

+1 for our ECNL player and another on a top volleyball team.  Maybe a tournament weekend would push us close to 20 if you add in travel.

Or maybe my nephew who was a golfer and would joyously do two rounds of golf Saturday and Sunday with friends.

But otherwise no, unless you are at the elite Olympics level and most of those kids don’t attend public high school. [/quote]

Serious HS baseball players are getting 8 hours of games, 4 hours of warmups on a normal fall tournament weekend. Plus 2-3 hours daily of practice, conditioning, BP, arm care during weekdays.

Kind of surprised the soccer and basketball players at that level aren’t spending enough out of practice time shooting, lifting, etc. to reach 20 hours. But obviously different sports require different time commitments. [/quote]

Baseball is such a time suck and terribly inefficient if you count how many times you touch the ball or hit the ball in a game or practice.

When my son was 4 we moved to Southern California and in the neighborhood there was a dad who played div. 1 soccer. He started a soccer team with his friend who also played on his div. 1 soccer team becsuse they had sons the same age. my husband is from Latin America and they noticed my son, his sister and husband would play outside for hours.

They played in a Hispanic League at first then in club soccer leagues starting at 7. The coach always talked about touches in the ball. How many times a player touched a ball in practice was critical. All the training was done to maximize that so they got 100’s of touches on the ball at practices and then Sat games they did a lot of passing as well.

The my son started playing little league as well. I was shocked at how inefficient practices were. In the course of 2 hours there were very few touches. In a 2 hour game there were kids who touched the ball on the field 2-3 times and sometimes only once. If you were the picture or the catcher you stood around for a long time. You maybe got to bat 3 times. I y son started playing at 8 and just by my husband taking him often to the batting cages and field practicing one in one he was able to make the all star team by the end of the season.

The best baseball players tended to have moms or dads who practiced with them apart from the inefficient practices.

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Ok? I don’t disagree. I was responding to the poster who asked for a time breakout. Some sports certainly take a 20+ hour weekly commitment, whether we view it as inefficient or not. 
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