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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is waaay worse in DC or in any highly affluent well educated area. [/quote]

My kid wants to play high school varsity golf in 2024, and he missed the cut in '23 as a freshman.  Over the summer, he had been practicing every day at the golf course that would be used for the upcoming tryouts from 7am-11am and again from 5pm until 8pm, including Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine.  A week prior to the tryout, I saw another kid and his mother at the golf course and the kid complained about why he had to practice.  After the tryout, that kid got cut and my kid was ranked #2 in the tryout and made the team.  The #1 kid is just a bit better than my kid because he started golf at the age of five and my kid started at the age of ten, which is OK because that kid works really hard and is also very talented.

Yes, it is very competitive in this area, especially if you live in wealthy areas like Langley, McLean, Great Falls, Oakton.  It is because everyone has money for their kids to take private lessons in sports and academics.  Probably less competitive in schools like Justice, Annandale, Falls Church, etc...[/quote]

Yeah, it is far worse here than in the rest of the country.  This is simply a fact.

The people trying to argue the local level of competitiveness is “normal” have likely never lived anywhere else.

As a personal example, my kids were on an area swim team where one of the youth broke one of Mark Phelp’s youth swimming records.  The kids who made the “A” meets at our club all did winter swim, practiced year-round, plus the parents put their kids in extra training camps like Machine, etc.

That level of group competitiveness is not normal.[/quote]

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