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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In what decade did you compete as a D1 athlete?[/quote]

2000-2004

Maybe your kids just aren’t that good and need all the expensive extra help?[/quote]

Times have changed from more than a decade ago. [/quote]

I’ve been a college coach since then, and no, not really. Like others mentioned, maybe for things like ice skating, but most scholarship sports? You either have it or you don’t, for the most part. Certainly you should have enough natural talent to not require $70K lessons. Travel ball was still a thing in the time I played. I didn’t play on an expensive team. You just have to play for a team that goes to tournaments with scouts, and put together a realistic skills tape that shows what we want to see. I could care less if it was produced by some big name skills tape guy.

Furthermore, the kids who seem to thrive the most are the ones who don’t feel guilted into sticking with a sport because mom and dad blew so much money on it. [/quote]

My DS used to fence and the top rated fencers at his club all took multiple private lessons each week for years to get to where they are. Two of them just got scholarships but I bet their parents paid more in private lessons than the scholarships are worth. One private lesson per week ran me $120/month so God only knows what the parents are paying for 3-4 of these week along with group lessons, conditioning, travel expenses to national and international tournaments, coaching fees, equipment, etc. Probably not $70K but it certainly isn’t cheap. Some of the top fencers do school online so they can travel to all of these events. [/quote]

Same.  My kid is nationally ranked and everyone at an elite level in his sport gets private coaching:  it is expected and normal.  It is impossible to do it on talent alone....  it isn’t a team sport.  Many/most kids are home schooled due to the travel schedule including international competitions.  Not interested in colleges that offer scholarships, can afford any private college so his extracurricular is strictly for fun and enrichment and to give him a leg up in applying to the Ivies and equivalent.[/quote]

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