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[quote=Anonymous]Some of these travel sports are 4 days a week plus travel on the weekends. You may get a month off but you are pressured to “train”. You can not do any other sport or extracurricular activities. Once home work starts to picking up you really do not have time for anything else. The burn out rate is very high. Realistically 75-85% of the kids on the “top” team have little to no chance of playing in college.

These teams are pretty joyless with mediocre coaching. Most parents could not tell a good coach from a bad coach. When it comes down to who is a good coach, it’s the one who picked my kid. The coaches are always feeding the parents “it’s about development” line. When is it about just playing a game for fun? Remember most of these kids will never play at the next level. Many of them are getting limited to no minutes in the games! You do not develop if you are not playing in games.

So I would say only play travel if you want to play in college because you are giving up a lot. Just be realistic about your kid’s chances. It your kid is a top player great if they a roll player of non starter…

Now there are so many clubs/teams in this area pretty much any decent u17 and below are on the “elite” team in the elite league. So if your kid is pretty good but does not want to play college the next level down is equal to a rec team. I wish there was an in between. 
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