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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question (because both my kids are still in elementary) - are HS sports still the end all, be all, with year-round $$$ teams being so prevalent? Do the top soccer players, swimmers, or baseball players even play for their HS teams or are they just pure travel/competitive team players? I can see it being a big thing for some sports (football obviously, maybe basketball although private teams seem to be big for that too) but I assumed private teams had taken over the top spots in some of these sports. And then the private sports-oriented HS’s like the St. James Academy are starting to dominate the HS leagues too. [/quote]

I feel like this may be sport-specific. A friend with a college recruit soccer player told me that in his daughter's experience, players at that level didn't tend to play high school soccer- only for their club. Maybe it was due to injury risk but also he seemed to indicate the club coaches were way better than the HS coaches.

I have a baseball kid who is just in the local baseball travel league. All of those teams don't play in the spring as the assumption is you'll be playing for your HS team and then reconvene do summer and fall travel. I don't know what the super high going pro kids do though as my son isn't at that level. [/quote]

This is PP and that’s why I was wondering - a friend of a friend’s daughter is on a very high level club soccer team but doesn’t play for the HS. And I was like, there’s no way she didn’t make the team, so then I assumed that the club team was probably better than the HS team so there was no real point to playing on a worse team, with a worse coach, and risking injury or scheduling conflicts with the club team. [/quote]

In NoVA the club soccer teams are far better and more competitive than HS. The top players who want to get recruited for college don't play high school. But there are enough travel players that know they wont play in college that switch to HS at that age. If you aren’t playing travel you won't make the HS team. If you are playing travel and you're the best in your club, you won't bother with high school. If you're a bubble player on a travel team you likely won't make your high school team. It's a wild culture.[/quote]

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