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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never understood this obsession with high performing athletics, like travel sports as a normal thing people "should" do or even relevant for college applications unless the kid has some special talents.  I value recreational sports as something kids can do to enjoy and also with no strings attached, something you don't have to schedule your life around.  Same is true for other extracurriculars too like music and art for kids who are simply ok and aren't super talented.

The truth is vast majority of kids who do these consuming activities will never benefit from them, make any money on it, have it as a career or even get a scholarship. Surely they won't be playing when they are adult as teams are hard to come by and life, job, family will become priority.  Why do people waste so much energy, time and money on this rat race? Is it just a thing to do that others are doing and is accepted as a standard of "success" or a good college "resume"?[/quote]

Cue the parents who will come in to justify that little Brayden absolutely had to be on a travel team because even though he isn’t good enough to play in college the competition of rec teams just wasn’t enough for his immense talent and skill.  :roll: [/quote]

It’s not the competition that’s not enough, it’s that the kids keep moving to travel so the rec teams have constant change and turnover. My child moved to a mid-level travel team, and he had so much fun. But the system stinks. All those kids should’ve been rec. Tbh, all those kids should’ve just been playing at the park.[/quote]

My kids are totally feeling this right now. My oldest has been on rec teams (through 6th/7th) with the same girls for a while, but eventually even for them the turnover has started. Kids decided to go to another sport, went travel, came [b]back[/b] from travel, and so on upsetting the parity in the program and making teams have to reshuffle. For my middle most of her friends are headed to the same travel team and most of the rest got tired of the girls headed to travel and gave up. So it's on to almost a whole new team for her. Neither are thrilled about it.

That said, I've seen a ton of shakeup for my friends with kids in travel this year, so it's not always better on the travel side. Just sometimes.[/quote]

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