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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans love winners. It isn't about doing a sport to go pro and making money when you graduate playing the sport. Obviously most parents of kids in travel sports realize this is unlikely.

However, playing on a high level team and competing for your school does open doors in the business world and many other jobs. You have a proven record you are a team player, you get along with others under stress, you area willing to put in the work even if you are tired and have other things going on. All things being equal the kid that played even a division 3 sport in college will get hired over someone who didn't. My nephew played baseball for a division 3 college. When he graduated it was a selling point. He was invited to go to a ballgame with some top executives as a prospective hire. His eventual bosses liked him as a person. It doesn't hurt that he also plays on their company softball team. [/quote]

Ridiculous. Pretty much every female I know could care less about that and we are now the majority in the professional world. And many guys would not care about this either. Maybe your average frar boy would care about it but the idea that it plays into hiring beyond the age of 23, is a joke. [/quote]

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