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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, today seems like you won't make a High School team unless you have played club sports for years. It's horrible for those families who cannot afford club sports.
As a parent whose daughter just graduated a D3 college playing field hockey, please pick the school based on academics not playing a sport. Once those 4 years are over, they gotta be able to get a good job and pay those bills!
When we were looking at colleges, it seemed like playing at a D1 school was a job?[/quote]

This plus a thousand. I went to university on athletic scholarship at a very competitive school. The pressure to perform is real on scholarship and is never ending so the sport comes first. I was a good student and cared about academics, so you really have to dispense with a social life. NCAA's in my sport were at the start of summer and it was difficult to manage internships. I was very fortunate to be able to go to this school so we f course it worked out but athletics had the unintended effect of delaying my entry into adulthood. Not a big deal because every experience has value but go in with eyes open. Generally speaking I am a big fan of D3.

One issue I see with suburban parents is that they often don't appreciate how hard some teams at large competitive schools are to make. Of course many do but a realization that the competition is intense is a helpful way to support your kid. I understood this because I was in a high school league in suburban Chicago where my school at 2400 students was the smallest in the league. The basketball team was modest by performance standards but still really difficult to make. Yet it paled in comparison to Evanston, a diverse school of 4200. Heck, given some of the wealth in Evanston, tennis and golf were really hard. Lots of respect for the effort of high school kids. Large schools have resources but making sports teams easily is rarely a factor. The AD at Evanston was my friend. An Olympic medalist, he lobbied hard to fund freshman and jv teams. Hard to sustain today.,[/quote]

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