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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like PP, we have really great coaches and really great team parents but I still hate it.  We were late-comers to travel sports -- did rec through middle school and I was generally opposed to the whole idea of travel sports.  But my kid really wanted to play in HS, seems to really love it, and apparently you can't play on the varsity HS team unless you do travel in the off-seasons (of which there are 2-3, not just one off-season!).

Actually one of the most toxic people we encountered was the rec commissioner!

But the cycle of tournaments and practices that are not conveniently located and everything else is just beyond exhausting.  But my kid has struggled with depression so I can't really make them quit something that is giving them joy/direction and keeping them off the internet crazy sites.  Sigh.[/quote]

This is us, but the worst is what they do to student athletes pulling them in different directions with the Club travel coach and high school coach vying for 109% loyalty or taking punitive action.  We made the mistake of leaving a team where the coach/club were very understanding of kids during high school season and didn’t bench them for missing a practice to play in a high school game.  A few kids on my child’s team missed 2 practices per week during high school season and the coach did not hold game play time against them.  Now we are in a situation with my kid breaking his back to please 2 coaches at once and the Club coach being a complete d@ck about the ones playing high school—even though kids still make it to more  practices than sons of the kids not even playing high school this season.

Since you have to play $3500 for August-June there isn’t an option of not playing Fall season and if you drop Club than the high school doesn’t want you.

It is such a disappointment to see adults do this to kids. I kick myself for not knowing the new club would be like this.[/quote]

Yes!  What also is awful is the way Club coaches expect 100% loyalty and show absolutely zero in return.  They threaten the players that if they look around or attend any other tryouts or practice sessions "that it will get back to them'..ooohhh scary.  But, they will offer zero transparency to the players and offer no clue if they will keep them on next year's roster.  If a new shiny object shows up late in the game at the last tryout, they have zero qualms about cutting a player with zero prior notice...and yet they threatened and harassed the players 'not to shop around' so now that kid is left with no options as other rosters are full.  Adults behaving badly, INDEED.  Parents are shelling out thousands of dollars a year to the team, but are expected to shop around less than they would for a bargain on a tube of toothpaste.  If a Club is good and fair and confident, they should welcome healthy competition and 'looking around' so that they get a kid fully committed and who knows it is where they want to be.

The business of travel sports is about a Club's $$$ and has very little to do with the kids and their development as players and people.  I have seen such bad behavior by people that are supposed to be role models and to impressionable young kids.[/quote]

We had a similar club/high school thing happen to our child as well, who also had been busting butt to please both coaches.  What was the worst, was the Club coach made zero mention of punitive action for kids playing high school.  Zero mention of for the first month or so and then at the first game benched every single kid that was playing high school (even though they had been attending Club practices) with zero warning.  And, this wasn't a Club that had a ban on playing high school, e.g., not MLS Next.[/quote]

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