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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is an unfortunate byproduct of living in a high density area, combined with the emergence of the youth sports industrial complex. There is a large population here, and a large population of people with money. So you have a lot of kids who start sports very young plus a lot of parents paying for club teams, private lessons, camps, etc. A less densely populated/less affluent area won't have as much of either, thus creating more opportunity for the kids who live in that community.

I wish I had thought of this back when we decided to settle here. I grew up somewhere that had the nice middle ground of there being enough competition to push the really good athletes, but not so much that an average kid couldn't join a sports team. You might not be a starter or a star, but you could at least be on JV or feel like you were a part of something for your school.

I was one of those top athletes and would make a varsity team here. But I saw the value in having teams made up of kids with varying abilities, not just the ones who had made the sport their life. I think it helped me keep things in perspective.

It's a shame that most HS sports here are only an option for the kids whose parents paid a lot of money for them to train year round, but it really is a numbers problem here.

My children are relatively athletic but I do not foresee them being elite athletes like I was. I have already tried to prepare my oldest for the possibility that they make not make the HS team in a sport they are pretty darn good at, but not national level good... because that's who is on the roster even for JV at our zoned school. They would absolutely make the team at a different school, and they are probably going to have a hard time seeing club teammates make the team at other nearby schools because it's not equally competitive everywhere. [/quote]

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