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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have this same question but for boys!  It seems like if your kid plays soccer as a kindergartner on a mini-kicks style rec team, and has fun, and is good at it, the expectation is  to have him in competitive U8 travel ball by second grade, and if you opt out of that, all that's left of the rec program by age 7 or 8 is the kids who have never played soccer before, or the kids without much athletic talent or much desire to play, since all of the moderately athletic kids who enjoy sports have moved on to a travel team.  there seems to be zero middle ground between training for 6 hours a week, and kicking the ball around without a purpose with kids who don't want to be there.  at age 7. [/quote]

I think this is unfortunately true, although we didn't really see that hit until 4th grade (age 9-10). My son had zero interest in competitive club or travel soccer, he only wanted to play to be on a team with his friends. We let him take a year off sports, bought some passes to the ninja and boulder gyms that he was interested in, but he wasn't motivated to keep going after a season. This spring I signed him up for a youth running club with a friend, which is basically a subdivision of the biggest local adult running club, and he's loving it because it's chill enough to socialize. Keep looking! [/quote]

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