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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a father of a young boy, I think about this all the time. Things are so different from when I was a kid which wasn't even that long ago. You can't do rec league soccer and more it has to be travel league, summer camp signup started before the New Year, high school kids are doing charity trips to third world countries... This list just goes on and on...[/quote] You can do rec soccer. It is a choice. Most kids who do travel soccer will eventually quit and it serves very little purpose. [/quote] [b]It’s really hard to find a rec soccer team after 6th grade. [/b] I’m feeling this stress because my kid had a bad freshman year and even he got straight As the rest of HS, he probably won’t get into UMd or anything like a top 100 school. He had basically one bad month that ranked his second semester grades and it feels like there’s no recovery from it. [/quote] Not where I live in Fairfax county. Our local leagues have rec sports all the way thru 12th.[/quote] Rec leagues exist but many kids quit or specialize in a sport(s) around 7th grade. My son’s main sport is tennis and he played rec soccer all through elementary. He was very good and was on a great team. Half his team quit soccer to focus more on hockey or baseball or whatever else was more important. He ended up on a random rec team in 7th and it was a terrible experience. The kids were very unathletic or totally not committed as they would miss practice and games. [/quote]
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