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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was this kid.  I wasn't stupid, I understood where I stood on the team - I was slower than most and not very athletically gifted.  But I *loved* my sport, I'm still very into sports in general, and my longest-standing friends are ones I made playing basketball in high school.  By senior year the coach asked if I wanted to be a manager and I was kind of embarrassed but really did prefer to do that and stay on the "team" than to just drop the sport, so I did.

I think you just support her for where she is.  The benefits of sports are much more wide-ranging than parents on these boards focus on: friendship, life lessons, cardio, healthy habits, all-girl spaces, etc.  It's not all about having a "hook."  If she wants to do camps or skills programs, and it's not an astronomical amount of money, you help her.  She can get better, but she'll never have a full ride to college.  You know this, she either already knows or will know soon.  But if she drops the sport it should be because she doesn't want to do it anymore, not because mom and dad sat her down and explained that she's a dud and this is a waste of their time.[/quote]

Thank you, basketball mom. Op here and DD is a basketball player and so your words mean a lot to me. In our area girls’ basketball isn’t a huge sport and the options at her current age are learn-to-play/intro vs. travel. There aren’t many competitive opportunities for girls who aren’t doing travel past 3rd/4th grade unless they are at a Catholic school and can play in CYO, but her school isn’t fielding a team in her grade this year. DD puts in the work, goes to extra clinics and skill sessions, and is a leader for conditioning and drills. But she just doesn’t have that extra magic that some of her teammates have. She loves everything about the sport and her teammates and I want her to be able to stay in that world for a little longer. [/quote]

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