Hockey is another sport that runs early. Hard to get ice time.

We are lucky to have games that don’t start until 8am. You’ll see adult soccer leagues out there playing at 6am or 7am on the weekends because they love playing and that’s the only field time available.

Anonymous wrote:Just stop pushing your kids then. Only 2% make it to professional sports. And before someone says they do it to learn x,y,z, they can learn x,y,z in/from/by other ways. Obsession with sports, smh.

Our kids do sports because it is healthy to be active.

In the Dc area there are too many people and not enough facilities. That's most of it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of my 3 kids have ever had a 6 am game. What sport is this?

Swim, some meets start that early.
Volleyball tournaments start at 7am and last until 6 or 7pm. Those of you who have a game 2-5, count your blessings. Volleyball is all day and sometimes multiple days and the season starts in November to May or June depending on how far your team goes. All day of girls screaming and loud whistles. (But I love watching DD play so 7am is worth it)

Yeah my youngest is into volleyball and I think it stinks. At least with baseball, soccer and softball, I could bring the dog, walk around a bit, etc. also the St Ajmes facility is like a circle of hell. Volleyball also schedules their tournaments over Easter weekend so forget about even taking a nice spring break as a family or even going to church.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we’ll wait till they’re in high school and they have games until nine or 10 PM. Count your blessings now cause you’ll be even more exhausted then.

This, then they have sports at 5-6 AM the next morning.

Yep, crew and competive swim are already practicing at like 5am

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love the early weekend game time slot. Get up, go to the game, frees up the rest of the day.

Me too, same for my kids.

Anonymous wrote:Source: Project Play Aspen Institute
NCCA statistics show that only a minuscule percentage of high school athletes will play professional sports.

1 in 610 (0.16%) will get drafted by a Major League Baseball team

1 in 10,399 (0.0096%) will get picked by an NBA team

1 in 12,873 (0.0077%) will be chosen by a WNBA team

1 in 3,960 (0.025%) will get picked by an NFL team

And .0025% of math majors will become a math professor, so what?

Sports will be a lucrative industry in the future with a lot of job opportunities in physical therapy, coach, equipment, planning, nutrition, finance and accounting, facility, marketing.

Look at how e sports evolved with tons of 6 figure “planner” jobs.

Anonymous wrote:None of my 3 kids have ever had a 6 am game. What sport is this?

Swim, some meets start that early.
Volleyball tournaments start at 7am and last until 6 or 7pm. Those of you who have a game 2-5, count your blessings. Volleyball is all day and sometimes multiple days and the season starts in November to May or June depending on how far your team goes. All day of girls screaming and loud whistles. (But I love watching DD play so 7am is worth it)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just stop pushing your kids then. Only 2% make it to professional sports. And before someone says they do it to learn x,y,z, they can learn x,y,z in/from/by other ways. Obsession with sports, smh.

2% of what? Kids? Nah brah this is wildly optimistic. And wrong.

But I don’t teach my kids math so they can be world renowned mathematicians. Nor science so they can cure cancer. Sports are great for kids. The goal is not professional sports for most kids. They’re out there to learn sportsmanship and teamwork and get a taste of something they might like. They make friends thy stay active and healthy during formative years of setting patterns for health and fitness.

And there is that x, y, z

These are legitimate and the PP who calls this x, y, and z is showing a lack of some of these skills.

My kids did not take to team sports, so I have been trying to teach other ways to adapt and flex with a group of kids in a state of constant change in order to reach a goal. There are not a lot of other ways to do it. For example, in robotics, there is no ball that shows the kids whether or not what they’re doing is working. In orchestra, everyone follows the conductor.

Anonymous wrote:What a lazy selfish SOB you are OP

Americans are insane.

There is zero wrong with wanting to sleep on weekends so your body is rested and you are healthy. Shaming someone for wanting rest is psychotic

Anonymous wrote:Just stop pushing your kids then. Only 2% make it to professional sports. And before someone says they do it to learn x,y,z, they can learn x,y,z in/from/by other ways. Obsession with sports, smh.

Well less than 2% workers make to C-level and we all have jobs still.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we’ll wait till they’re in high school and they have games until nine or 10 PM. Count your blessings now cause you’ll be even more exhausted then.

This, then they have sports at 5-6 AM the next morning.

Yep, my kid had weight room at 615am.

As mentioned upthread - limited field use, officials, gym space, weight room sign ups.

You squeeze everything in when you can.

None of my 3 kids have ever had a 6 am game. What sport is this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a field availability/ump/ref issue.
Finite resources. Money won’t help.

Why is everyone ignoring this correct answer and instead fighting about children becoming pro athletes?

Because they are all the “taker” parents who have no clue what is actually involved in making youth sports happen. It is a lot of behind the scenes volunteers and lowly paid parks & rec staff. And they have zero appreciation for it.

Anonymous wrote:Just stop pushing your kids then. Only 2% make it to professional sports. And before someone says they do it to learn x,y,z, they can learn x,y,z in/from/by other ways. Obsession with sports, smh.

Not playing for college. Playing for social, physical, and time management reasons.
Enjoy your dungeon and dragons.