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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC’s friend does year round swim team plus a summer team. His mom says the kid is really good at it and he enjoys it. Overheard my DC talking to his friend about it.. friend said ‘i hate it and its not fun at all’. My DC asked him why he does it then. He replied because my parents make me do it. 
We know several kids like that. Other ones who burnt out and hate their sport now. Some who went to college for their sport and quit within a year because they hated it so much. So don’t believe when parents say ‘they love it so much’. I am sure some small percentage of kids do love their sport enough to benefit from travel sports experience but majority do not.[/quote]

I don’t believe this, as someone around a lot of college athletes. Almost none quit after the first year, and the ones that did, it was clearly due to injury.

This is the kind of hyperbole common on DCUM but very unusual in real life. [/quote]

The number of kids that quit college sports during and after first year is big.  For some -- it is the first time they feel they can do what they want.  But yes it is a big thing.  Probably not football and basketball but almost every other sport.[/quote]

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