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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all 13 pages, and I'm not sure of OP's definition of "intense".  But thought I'd share our experience where one of my kids did a travel sport as a pre-teen, and another did an intense sport as a pre-teen (with not a lot of travel).  Our reason for it was simply that they were passionate about their sports and wanted to grow in the sport, so needed to move from a big fish in small pond situation, to higher level coaching and competition.  College scholarships were the last of my concern, as I had 529 savings plans for my kids that would fully fund college and they're good students who received merit scholarships.  I'm also not at all a keeping with the Joneses type.

I will say the entire family didn't have to sacrifice their weekends and weeknights -- I would travel with one kid while DH stayed at home with the other.  Only maybe 2-3 times did we travel or attend a long competition as a family.

Neither kid continued their sport in college (well, they both did club sports, but not on the official university team) and that was find and not at all the goal.  The experience was still great for them, they learned and grew from it, and have carried those lessons on in life.

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