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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What league is this?  I thought the local youth sports leagues had "house" teams open to all the kids who want to play, and "travel" teams for the more skilled/hard-core players. [/quote]

There were enough skilled players to create an extra travel league, but not enough facility and coaches to accommodate it.[b] Kids will eventually give up when they've been playing in house league for years and not have the opportunity to play travel. [/b]Anyway, the answer that were given for turning away many kids at the tryouts who could otherwise develop better playing skills by competing with a variety of teams outside of APS at the travel level was that practicing facilities were limited.[/quote]

I don't understand this statement at all. [/quote]

Couldn't agree more, PP.  I watched our local rec teams get so competitive in middle school that many disillusioned travel kids came back and played house.  There's a big shifting in the middle, early high school level in basketball anyway.  Being on a travel team matters little when you're in 4th grade, a lot more when you're in 8th.

I'd say lighten up, OP. I know your kid is disappointed, but let him play house if he's not good  (or visible ) enough to make the travel cut at this point.  Because that's what it is -- travel teams are for the best -- the fact that some in basketball and soccer, in particular, have expanded to include everyone who wants to be on a travel team, doesn't mean all those kids are good, just that their parents have paid for them to play.  Send your kid to some good basketball camps, like Wootten.  Have him work on his skills -- if he has passion for the sport and talent, his time will come when it matters.   If he gives up... that tells you something too.

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