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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son was very late to hit puberty and didn’t hit his growth spurt until 16. (His voice also didn’t change until then and he didn’t grow under arm or leg hair until then, either.)

Until about age 12 he always was on the tall side and then was significantly shorter than everyone else as most of the other boys were in the throes of puberty. I went to the ped with our concerns and she assured me he was a late bloomer.

He’s now 18 and 6’5” tall (and still growing it seems) and has committed to a D1 school to play a sport next fall.

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Can I ask what sport, and how he managed to hang in there during the tiny years? My oldest was a very late bloomer and had to switch to track and cross country in HS- no way was he making any cut sports teams at his size (after playing club basketball and travel baseball for years). Ended up 6’2”. My younger DS is now 14 and is blooming “on time” but [b]his smaller friends all started getting benched and/or cut last year (soccer and baseball)[/b]. I really feel for them. [/quote]

NP here. I have a 14 year old baseball player and he's  played teams that are just enormous. His team has a very wide range of sizes- a few are around 5'10" while two are under 5'.  Always wondered if coaches are weeding out players based on height or if tall kids self-select for those teams. [/quote]

I think the top tier teams tend to have all enormous kids, while lower teams have a wider range.

My own 14yo plays for an organization with both an A and B team (my kid is on the B team). On the B team, kids range from 5’0-6’0” and from probably 90lbs-200lbs. On the A team- the smallest kid is 5’6”-5’7” and 130lbs-ish. The tiniest kids will struggle to get much playing time even on the B team.

We were told by the coaches that physical maturity was a factor (but definitely not the only factor) in team placement. My kid is tallish but skinny.  I think size is a factor for most teams but not all are open about it. [/quote]

PP here. Our coach said jokingly, you can be big and slow, or small and fast, but the worst is small and slow.  My own kid is close to 5'11" and 150lbs but he's really slow and not strong.[/quote]

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