Anonymous
05/28/2024 18:28
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
We thought mine was quitting, then the new coach did their tournament this weekend and suddenly the regrets are looming. I admit, the coach did a great job with them. Back on the proverbial fence with an offer in hand and a decision to make.
Anonymous
05/28/2024 09:23
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
Anonymous wrote:rec is more fun when you're the best player on the team!
Especially if you have an unselfish playmaker profile, looking to pass first. Your team looks at you like a god and makes runs because they know you'll hit them if they're free. The opposition concentrates on you and leaves someone free, it becomes a self sustaining tactic.
It's like enjoying retirement on the beach or something.
Anonymous
05/28/2024 08:47
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
Anonymous wrote:I've found a lot of players come back to rec league after playing travel for a while. In some cases, they're just focusing on other things -- I coached a former travel player on my rec team who went on to be an All-District basketball player. In some cases, they stuck with travel long enough to develop enough to make their HS teams, and they decide they'd rather do HS and rec.
Upper-age rec is generally a lot of fun. The players who played through U9 or U10 because their parents made them are all gone. The remaining players all want to be there.
As a result of these kids moving back to rec, lower-level travel at these ages is a joke. You're not going to play in college -- you might not even play for your HS team. Why are you still paying a "professional" coach?
This has been our experience with our oldest boy. He played travel for a few years, started out on the top team but eventually was moved down when we relocated and he joined a new club. He played for a couple years on the second team but he made his HS team and eventually decided he'd rather play rec and HS soccer, so his club travel soccer days are over. He's enjoying it more now, I think.
Anonymous
05/27/2024 23:33
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
Anonymous wrote:rec is more fun when you're the best player on the team!
I mean, you're not wrong 🤷♂️
Anonymous
05/26/2024 21:16
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
rec is more fun when you're the best player on the team!
Anonymous
05/26/2024 16:41
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
My 12 year old is quitting. We resisted travel for years even though she loved rec and was a good player, just because it seems insane to me to have lots of parents drive long distances to games when there are plenty of other good players nearby if you live in a city. We finally gave in and let her try it, but the distances are as ridiculous as we had anticipated, and frankly she likes it but doesn’t love it enough for us to spend every weekend driving all over. So she’ll do just rec next year.
Anonymous
05/26/2024 16:20
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
Anonymous wrote:My kids both hate the HS coach. Neither wanted to play this year, but their friends convinced them. The club trains three times a week and they can get their homework done. The high school coach demands they meet after school and hang out for a full hour before practice starts (not even allowed to go to the library to do HW) and runs them to the ground. If they quit anything it will be HS.
Club always trumps HS.
Anonymous
05/26/2024 14:32
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
I've found a lot of players come back to rec league after playing travel for a while. In some cases, they're just focusing on other things -- I coached a former travel player on my rec team who went on to be an All-District basketball player. In some cases, they stuck with travel long enough to develop enough to make their HS teams, and they decide they'd rather do HS and rec.
Upper-age rec is generally a lot of fun. The players who played through U9 or U10 because their parents made them are all gone. The remaining players all want to be there.
As a result of these kids moving back to rec, lower-level travel at these ages is a joke. You're not going to play in college -- you might not even play for your HS team. Why are you still paying a "professional" coach?
Upper-age rec is generally a lot of fun. The players who played through U9 or U10 because their parents made them are all gone. The remaining players all want to be there.
As a result of these kids moving back to rec, lower-level travel at these ages is a joke. You're not going to play in college -- you might not even play for your HS team. Why are you still paying a "professional" coach?
Anonymous
05/25/2024 10:55
Subject: Is your kid quitting travel after this year?
My kids both hate the HS coach. Neither wanted to play this year, but their friends convinced them. The club trains three times a week and they can get their homework done. The high school coach demands they meet after school and hang out for a full hour before practice starts (not even allowed to go to the library to do HW) and runs them to the ground. If they quit anything it will be HS.