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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did/Does your son's work ethic match his goals?  If not, what did/do you expect?  Do you really think it should be easy and that anyone should be able to make a HS varsity sports team?[/quote]

NP here.  I am 37, and played sports in high school.  I feel like sports were open to more kids back then, and honestly, that is the way I think it should be.  We had a freshman, JV, and varsity team for most sports.  There were still some cuts, but I don't think the cuts were anything like what I glean is the situation is like today (my kids aren't old enough yet).  Today I feel like you practically have to be a professional athlete to make the HS team.

To the OP, we are in FCPS and I hear cross country is a no cut sport at our local HS, and I think it is nice that they have at least one no cut option.  Idk whether your HS has anything similar.
Another thing I gleaned from parents of older kids is that it's tough if the kids are ONLY doing sports and then their sports option dwindle as they get older.  I am trying to make sure my kids are trying out other non-sport things too.  
I do feel there are still rec league options for many sports, even for the older kids, too, though.[/quote]

I’m in my mid-40s, and I had the same experience. I was a good athlete but didn’t start playing organized sports until age 10–and even then, only one organized sport and only one season each year. But I played three varsity sports in high school, two of which I had never previously played in organized fashion outside of gym class.

We had JV and varsity for all teams, and across all of the sports in the school, pretty much every kid who really wanted to be on a team, was competent, and could commit could probably make at least JV of at least one team.

Sports were a huge part of my HS experience, but they didn’t feel super high-stakes; I hadn’t been training my whole life for them, and I didn’t really spend time on them outside their assigned seasons. I had time for other extracurricular activities. The team camaraderie was great, the competition was fun, I was proud to represent my school, and I stayed in great shape. But that’s about it. Sports had appropriate relative weight in my life.

It feels completely different today, with kids starting so young and pushed to commit/specialize so early. It raises the stakes and narrows the field, with the result that HS sports are accessible to a very small portion of a school’s population. [/quote]

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