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Anonymous wrote:Soccer in the USA is so UMC kids don't get slapped around by the colored kids in basketball and football.

The thing about the contact laws in soccer 50/50 balls is they just don't work well when contact isn't shoulder to shoulder. When there is a difference in height the taller player isn't allowed to drop their shoulders so it's more like elbow to head or shoulders to ribs. So soccer players tend towards average height more than you would expect. You don't want to be the odd one out on a soccer squad and every challenge is like that. Except in the US they run slightly shorter than other places.

Anonymous wrote:Runners are not usually heavy, although being tall probably helps.

Anonymous wrote:Soccer in the USA is so UMC kids don't get slapped around by the colored kids in basketball and football.

Anonymous wrote: Crew. I think this is the perfect example of height with athletic build trumping all.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe super early on, but once they get older, no. Soccer seems like a weird example to me. Most of the good soccer players I know at the high school level are average size, strong, and agile.

Agree completely. Very rare to find an above average height kid in soccer in high school on top teams. If there is one, they are likely a top recruit because you typically don’t get the agility and coordination needed with height on top soccer teams.

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Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

Oh, you want to pick on girls do ya. No wonder you got kicked out of your club. Sawed off ego and all.

I bet you never had to special order pants tough stuff. Upset because there are somethings that just aren't your thing.

Aged out, silly. Not kicked out. And he played in college. Currently in his last year of law school while your daughter is trying to find size 46 pantsuits. LOL.

For some bottom of the barrel D3 school likely? I am sure he would love to find a 6’2” volleyball player so his own kid doesn’t suffer the same fate as him.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe super early on, but once they get older, no. Soccer seems like a weird example to me. Most of the good soccer players I know at the high school level are average size, strong, and agile.

Agree completely. Very rare to find an above average height kid in soccer in high school on top teams. If there is one, they are likely a top recruit because you typically don’t get the agility and coordination needed with height on top soccer teams.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe super early on, but once they get older, no. Soccer seems like a weird example to me. Most of the good soccer players I know at the high school level are average size, strong, and agile.

Anonymous wrote:Runners are not usually heavy, although being tall probably helps.

Anonymous wrote:The answer regarding size is not the same for girls and boys. While certain sports favor smaller or larger athletes, girls sports has what I would call a larger grace scale in terms of acceptable span of sizes because on the balance far fewer girls play organized athletics. I’m talking team sports here. DD was able to play through HS despite relatively small stature because she had strong ball skills and the team needed more players to fill out the roster. She was not a starter but got a decent amount of playing time. DS on the other hand is on the smaller side but is an outstanding natural athlete. He’s had a much tougher road because coaches barely give him a second look at tryouts. He’s finally growing and hoping that will help him with club opportunities. FWIW the size issue really started to come into play for DS around 13u.