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[quote=Anonymous]My kid tried out for three different travel sports at the end of 2nd grade.  He did all three (plus a few others) at a rec level.  He made two of the travel teams (hockey and baseball), but not the third, which was kind of a surprise at the time (soccer).  Fortunately, at that age, travel baseball was mostly a summertime activity, while hockey took most of the summer off.  So that was able to work.  He also stuck with rec soccer, summer diving and tennis, and rec basketball.  Going into 6th grade, he moved up to a higher level of travel hockey, and made a conscious decision that this would be his number 1 priority.  He would also pick his club hockey events (including practices) over rec events (which now also included flag football) and Boy Scout activities.  By the time he got to 8th grade, he had stopped with summer diving and tennis because they conflicted with summer scouting activities, and his rec soccer team and flag football teams had finally fallen apart.  In 8th grade, he stopped playing baseball and taken up lacrosse instead (8th graders could play on the HS JV team).  So in HS, his schedule looked like this:

Fall:  Club and HS hockey (generally didn't conflict, but always would do club hockey if it did).  Club hockey was generally a 5-6 day a week activity from Sept. to mid-March
Winter:  Club and HS hockey, rec basketball (didn't make too many basketball games because of hockey)
Spring:  End of Club and HS hockey, HS lacrosse (fortunately, his lacrosse coach was understanding during the 2-3 weeks of hockey/lacrosse overlap)
Summer:  Random summer hockey showcases, scouting activities.[/quote]

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