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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has this always been the way with youth sports? If not when did it start? I was a kid in the 1980s and played a lot of sports (soccer competitively, other sports were considered “rec”), but I don’t remember size being a big issue one way or another. Maybe I was oblivious as a kid?[/quote]

I think it's a problem in high school sports because they don't have a lot of teams in US high schools - is it just varsity and JV, and you're cut if you don't make those?

I was on my high school's 5th ranked volleyball team with the other kids doing it for fun rather than glory, and we played other schools' 5th ranked teams.[/quote]

Yes. Some sports will also have a freshman team. And many high schools are very large. For example I think our school had like 70 girls try out for freshman volleyball, and at least that many try out for freshman boys basketball. Both very popular sports. Only 10-12 make the roster. For sports that are less popular or that have larger teams it is a bit easier- but often those do not have a freshman team, just JV.

Plenty of skilled kids who have played travel/club sports for years don’t make our school teams. [/quote]

Why is it designed so average kids can't do sports yet we go on and on about them not getting enough exercise?[/quote]

To be fair there were decades before organized sports became as big as they are where kids got plenty of exercise. Running around sandlot style is still exercise. Working a manual labor summer job is exercise. We could find ways to bring back other forms of exercise. Not everything has to play into the youth sports industrial complex.[/quote]

You make good points. When my kids were at high school, they wouldn't even let them outside the front door to walk or kick a ball at lunchtime. When I was a kid, that's when I did my sports clubs or played informal sports/games with other kids.

We either need to stop the youth sports to college admissions link, or give the active kids credit for being active without being competitive. [/quote]

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