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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're doing what you say everyone else is doing but you're confused? Why do you allow your own kids to play sports at that level?[/quote]

+1 I grew up in the US and my kids have played one rec sport each through elementary school and high school, skipping a few years here and there. Never have our days been consumed by sports. Curious why yours are so over scheduled. [/quote]

When I was a kid in FCPS in the 90s, you could walk on to some high school sports with very little experience as a freshman.  That was a different era.  Now for the popular sports, you won’t make the high school team in popular sports without travel/club experience.  It’s much more competitive.  So the options would be rec up to high school, and then transition into a less popular sport or non sport clubs.  For some kids, that would be quite upsetting because they love the sport they are in.[/quote]

The only sports a kid can possibly walk on with little experience-unless they have some incredible physical attributes or something (like 6’5” kid for basketball or similar) at our HS: football, track, cross country, wrestling (very unpopular in our area- I know some areas are different). Swim team does carry a huge roster as well, but I think a lot of them don’t compete in meets at all. Obviously it isn’t the end of the world not to make teams (and even some travel kids don’t- no guarantees), but without club experience the door is closed tight much earlier.

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