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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s interesting that many of you don’t let your kids play on the HS sports team. My kid would say that was the most fun part of playing their sport once they hit HS. They got to play with their closest friends (not usually on the same teams for travel), for their school where classmates could come cheer them on, working towards a collective goals as representatives of their community. And from playing club soccer they knew a few players on almost every opposing team. It’s a much more fun atmosphere and the season is like 3 months max. [/quote]

I wish our child played for their high school. It would have made my life so much easier. Our child wanted to compete against the best players and teams. That ruled high school out completely.[/quote]

You and your kid weren’t clever enough to realize that you can play for your high school AND whatever elite team they simply had to be on?  [/quote]

[b]He was contractually precluded from playing high school soccer.[/b][/quote]

This is such a huge problem. Most of the players who go this “academy” route are not going to end up in any kind of lucrative pro arrangement. And you give up the HS experience. Shame on a structure that sets up contracts this way. 
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[b]I know it’s hard to believe, but some athletes don’t care about a HS sports experience. They don’t see bypassing HS sports as giving up an experience.[/b][/quote]

As with everything else, a lot of truths. I know four kids, friends of my son, who bypassed HS for a club/ academy model. One became a pro player. The other three went to Division III colleges. Those three all now, at about age 25, regret not playing with their HS friends and say they would do it differently if they could do it over.  [/quote]

I have an actual son that bypassed HS sports and couldn’t be happier. He jokes that he finds all the old HS players hanging out together at one of the local bars when he comes home. They live in the past. It’s sad.[/quote]

Only a loser thinks it’s sad to have friends.  Sorry you raised one.[/quote]

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