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[quote=Anonymous]By middle school, the travel intensity--be it actual travel or just expectations around performance and training--ramps up. It's a wild time because this is also when there's a big gap between boys who have grown/gone through puberty and boys who have not. By the end of MS/early HS, boys' size plays a huge role in pretty much every sport. So, unless your kid is huge, you absolutely have to have been working on the skills so they can buy themselves some time on the HS team until they grow. Coaches will take big kids who are less skilled.

We are currently watching our DS who has worked his butt off for a sport he loves starting to realize his dream of playing in HS may be dead because he's not big/strong enough. The men in our family are all late bloomers so I am confident he'll grow, but whether he'll quit before he hits his growth spurt remains to be seen. It sucks.

To answer the OP directly--you need to do whatever works for your family. Our DS loves the sport he plays, and travel made sense for our family. I don't regret putting in the time and money to make that happen, even though it might not lead to him playing in HS or beyond. That said, it's a hard pass on travel if your kid is not really invested in the sport. [/quote]

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