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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it OP, your kid likes tennis and that is what they want to play. I think the PP was on to something, can you find a USTA league that they could play in? Are there youth leagues through USTA? I know that there are adult leagues. Maybe there is a local league and a way to look for a team in that? It would keep him playing and going and he can try out each year for HS, hopefully making the team sooner rather then later.  [/quote]

I’m the volleyball poster and know he can definitely play tennis outside of school. I don’t know much about tennis except that there are as many options as volleyball, if not more. There are private places, rec centers, country clubs, swim and tennis clubs, and courts just about everywhere. Surely you know where he can play. Your kid didn’t just start playing this year.  He can play other places besides the school team.  There is no reason he can’t put tennis on his college app if he wants to for all 4 years when the time comes senior year.  [/quote]

In a sort of similar note, there are many elite athletes (soccer to my knowledge) who are not allowed to play for their high schools. They just play for their club teams.

What also happens, is that once they have committed to playing in college, they end up playing their senior year, and “take up spots” of players who were on the team since freshman year.

I am not saying I agree or disagree with this scenario, but it happens.

Luckily, our high school is usually not competitive in most sports, so any fairly coordinated, semi-athletic kid, can easily make a freshman/jv team, even if they have never played the sport before. Both my kids made the vball teams (one actually made the jv team) their freshman years, without previous experience. [/quote]

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