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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is really tough to be short entering high school because it makes it so much harder to try to make a sports team. So I totally get it OP.

Both my boys played sports well enough to do club and all star teams in different sports in elementary and middle school. Unfortunately they both entered high school one at 5'2" and one at 5'4". So neither bother trying out for basketball even though one player club in 4-6th and did well. In soccer the one who was really a technically skilled player who could read the ball really well got pushed off the ball and then got a bone in his foot broken when a 200 plus pound player came down onto his foot during tryouts. The other son really wanted to do football but is just too light even though he is fast and has "good hands" when he has played flag football.

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This is a big issue, and one of the reasons boys are so bothered by being short/late maturing at this age. Later maturers will have a harder time making teams (and earning any playing time) in HS…it can be very discouraging. [/quote]

But they will be ok! They will. This is society's issue, not theirs. School sports is not the end all be all. I say this as a mom to 3 boys who are all athletic, one tall, 2 short and they figure it out and find their path.[/quote]

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