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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess the problem I see is that sports have basically become all or nothing. Either you're doing travel teams and shelling out money for private lessons, or you're out of luck.

I grew up playing rec league sports in Toronto. Anyone who wanted to could sign up for a hockey team in winter and a soccer or baseball team during summer, which were run by Toronto's parks and rec, and have very modest signup calls. This provided a middle ground of giving kids the benefits of physical activity without having to devote your family's life to it. Whether you played a sport or not was irrelevant to college admissions, since college sports aren't much of a thing in Canada.  [/quote]

I don't really understand what you are saying.  There are plenty of rec leagues in the US where kids can easily play.

Here is a story in the NY Times today of a female Canadian hockey player.  This doesn't sound much different from the crazy travel leagues/private schools others reference in the US throughout this thread:

Less than two years after making the switch from boys to girls hockey, Primerano was already one of the sport’s best young players, leading her team in scoring and winning [b]Canadian Female Prep High School MVP [/b]in her 10th grade debut season. And after her international debut at the 2024 U18 worlds — where she led the tournament in scoring, set a record for points by a defender (16) and was named best defender and tournament MVP — Primerano already needed a new challenge.

[b]She could return to RINK Hockey Academy in Kelowna, B.C., the hockey school that churns out NCAA talent, national team hopefuls and NHL draft picks such as Tij Iginla and Ryder Ritchie[/b], or she could make a highly unusual move for a teenage women’s hockey player: graduate from high school early and start college at 17.

At 15 years old — in her ninth-grade season — Primerano was still playing boys hockey for the Burnaby Winter Club in the U15 prep league.[/quote]

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