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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we talk about kids who are not superstars athletically but on an average team but only play the sport out of love for the sport?

How does this "experience" affect the said child's college admissions?  Does the school give extra "points" for the kid's participation in a sports activity or is that not going to happen?   Academically the kid is in the A- neighborhood..[/quote]

It really depends, but I have 2 sons that play in college and 1 that just played for fun.

For him specifically, it did not affect his admissions.

It did give him the confidence to play club which did add to his college experience.

I think it looks good if he is a captain. [/quote]

Different poster, but I’ve always read that if you are not a recruited athlete, then your sports participation counts the same as any other ordinary EC. Colleges like to see that kids have interests and activities outside of school, but don’t particularly care which ones. I’m not convinced that being a team captain makes too much of a difference for colleges, but it’s usually a great learning experience for kids.

I’ve have two kids in college now. One played soccer for a middling club team and in HS, and is an excellent student.  I’m fairly certain that the colleges that accepted her cared far more about her scores than anything else. Like the PP’s son, she is playing club soccer in college now and absolutely loves it. She was always just as serious about the sport as my other kid, who is playing D1. I don’t know what drives people like OP and other posters to be so nasty about travel sports. They have brought nothing but pleasure for us. [/quote]

Thanks for this input![/quote]

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