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[quote=Anonymous]I have a HS senior who was on Varsity, did club, summer, etc for her entire HS career. I'm really sad to report that as others have said, unless you are a recruited athlete, it doesn't matter. I'm not sure if it even matters if they are captain of their EC.

What I've learned in the past year is that college admissions primarily look at two things if you are not a recruited athlete: your GPA and your test scores. If your kid is doing a sport year-round, it might actually add more stress to keep doing that sport and not be able to concentrate fully on school and test prep.

If the sport is a type of stress relief and something they do for fun/exercise/love of it, I'd keep it going. But I wouldn't put the stress of making JV or Varsity vis a vis college admissions into that equation.

Lastly, I do understand your frustration around every sport not offering a Freshman team. As other posters have mentioned, there are more than seemingly fathomable trying out for teams (baseball and basketball at our HS come to mind) and I can imagine it is so hard when something that brings such joy and kids have put so much into isn't offered at the Freshman level.[/quote]

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