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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many posters that dislike sports assume parents expect their kids to get a full ride to college or play professionally? Our kids played sports because they enjoyed playing sports and all of the fitness, competitiveness, and camaraderie that came with it. They knew if their grades suffered their activities would be reduced but they always maintained strong grades. None of them wanted to play past HS but they enjoy playing on adult leagues now that they’re out of college and it’s been a great way to meet people and socialize and stay active.

Some people just enjoy playing sports. It isn’t more complicated than that. [/quote]

I love sports, both watching and playing.

I would not put my kid in travel or club sports unless they were so good that rec leagues and school sports did not makes sense. I don't mean "likes soccer and is reasonably good at it." I mean "they are significantly better than everyone else on the team and there's no option for playing up a level to challenge them that way." And they'd also have to love the sport and really, really want to do it.

This is like 5% of all kids in any given sport. Yes in some communities, 50% or more of the kids in a sport play club sports. It's weird.

I don't think this happens because people, and kids, like sports. I think it happens because people are super competitive and also lemmings.[/quote]

Any kid get to play on a club team?  I thought you have to make it at the tryouts, lots of people go to tryouts, few get in, is this incorrect?  [/quote]

For most travel sports, you can find a team willing to take your kid and your money regardless if your kid is good or not.[/quote]

+1, the whole scam of travel sports is that they convince families that it's "elite" and limited only to the most talented kids, but the truth is that it's just limited to who can pay. Go try and find a kid who wanted to play on a travel team and was unable to do so. Go ahead. You won't find one.

There are elite kids playing on travel teams and some teams are truly elite, but travel sports as a category are not at all. It is a money-making endeavor and it is not in the league's financial interest to actually have high standards for entry. The most I've ever heard in terms of standards is kids who were obviously not interested in playing (especially if they skip practices and definitely if they miss games), the coaches will tell the family that they should not come back the next year. But if the kids are willing to show up and the family will pay? That is the floor required.[/quote]

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