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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How good does a kid need to be to make a local Moco high school team?  I'm hearing it's very competitive and you typically need to be in the travel team circuit to be considered?  What experiences/training would you look to have an 11 year old do to work towards this goal[/quote]

Not OP, so please weigh in, OP!

My son is on a 14U B level travel team in MoCo and his teammates are all either rising 9th or 10th graders, so they are all in the thick of this. From what I understand it depends a lot on the school, because not all of them have really good baseball programs. But assuming you are in one of the big schools with good teams, its true that a res-level player probably isn't going to make it straight from rec. The travel kids have just been seeing better pitching, and in general playing at a higher level for a couple of years and so their skills are more advanced. That said, if your kid is strong and can hit, and is decently fast, they've got a shot. On my kid's team some kids have made their high school JV and some have not. So not even all travel team kids are going to make their high school team.

I assume you are planning for next spring, so there are a bunch of things your kid can do. There are all sorts of camps, clinics, and workouts your kid can join this summer, fall, and winter to be ready for next Spring's tryouts. He could try to get on a travel team for the fall. There are tryouts happening now through mid-August. My son took pitching lessons all winter at The Baseball Zone and it really helped him.

Oh, and I just saw your kid is 11. There is NOTHING you need to do now unless your kiddo wants to. My son played rec through 11, moved to travel at 12U and had a ball, and we expect he'll make his high school JV team. Just let him love baseball and play as much of it as he wants to. Oh, here is one thing - help him play every position. Try them all, enjoy them all, get pretty good at them all. At least catcher, pitcher, an infield position, and an outfield position. Don't let him specialize, or say "that isn't for me" yet.[/quote]

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