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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a bummer, OP, but honestly this aspect of youth sports is a reason not to pursue them at a high level. It gets more competitive every year, people have kids specializing earlier and earlier, some people will pour endless amounts of money into coaching and equipment and camps and anything they can find to give their kid a leg up.

If you have to choose between starting a sport at age 4 and spending tens of thousands of dollars on it and shaping your entire family's life around it for years, or just not playing high school sport.... I kind of feel like the smart play is to skip it and do other things. You can play rec sports, and it is totally possible to take up a sport as a teenager and play it well enough to do it socially and for physical fitness as an adult, and that's good enough.

Learn to play sports like basketball, tennis, and golf, which adults play casually to make friends and network professionally. Other that that, don't worry about it.[/quote]

But I wish I played on a high school team. It’s a unique experience that is very different just from playing something recreationally [/quote]

Can you run? My niece didn't have any sports experience prior to hs and ended up able to run x-country and track on not only her high school teams but at a Div 1 uni as well. [/quote]

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