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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At first it's more about who obviously has NO chance.

That's clear by age 6 for many kids. [/quote]

I agree with this. I have an 11 year old, and watching his rec basketball game this weekend was painful with some kids who are just so bad. It's why many kids go to travel, they have to in order to not play with kids who are absolutely horrible and cause the team to lose. [/quote]

I’ve seen some of the “bad” kids who end up 6’5 play on the high school team. The glory days for many of the boys who end up short were middle school. Enjoy it while it lasts![/quote]

LOL.  Middle school is not the time to judge a kid's height or sports trajectory. DH grew over a foot in his junior year of high school and another six inches senior year.[/quote]

I think that was pp’s point. Some MS super star kids don’t grow enough in HS to compete with the best ones that do. [/quote]

True. Late bloomers have to be resilient because they certainly experience setbacks when competing against peers with testosterone. Even if they don't have significant height, testosterone makes a huge difference in physical sports. [/quote]

It can be a problem for early bloomers too. 5’7 6th grade star can turn into 5’7 sophomore cut from JV. Sometimes even when they are very coordinated. [/quote]

This happens all the time in basketball. The big kid gets labeled a big and taught how to play down low. The get really good in the post, but they never learn how to play small. Come puberty, they aren't big enough to play the post and they have never developed guard skills [/quote]

IT happens all of the time in soccer.  They use the physicality to body kids and beat them down the field--bigger shots.  Coaches abuse them by just using them for the 'kick and run' plays or set them as a defender.  When a kid is small in the sport--they have to become very quick agile and 'think fast' because they aren't going to beat the big/testosterone kids to the ball.  They have to rely solely on their skill and IQ.  Then, if these are late bloomers (my sons were) they get to be 18 and are now muscular and 6feet and they have that skill on both feet and touch to back up the physicality.

My kid was a very good athlete early---and then in MS really dropped off as all the others had their growth spurts. Then around 18, he started winning the beep tests and dominating in the physical tests while his skills were light years ahead of the kids that were his size in middle school and stopped growing.[/quote]

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