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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My daughter plays travel soccer and basketball. But she also plays high school soccer and basketball. Both of her (public) high school teams are absolutely terrible. We have 3 travel players on the HS soccer team. They are so fucking advanced that playing with girls who are literally just learning the game is frustrating. And the powerhouse schools they play are the Catholic schools who have a dozen travel players. It's sickening.
My daughter absolutely loves playing for her school even though they frequently get murdered. There is school spirit, it helps with the social life obviously, and since she's so highly skilled (and I'm not bragging at all--that's just how it is when you've played travel for 10 years) she was one of the leaders on both teams as a freshman last year. All of that is great for her. We've told both travel teams who try to keep their players from playing other sports and playing for their schools to fuck off. She's been lucky that it hasn't affected her participation on either team. But that is not the norm and I think it's bullshit.
And what's crazy is that parents buy in to this one sport bullshit that these travel teams sell. If you ask college coaches what they're looking for, they always say they want a kid who has grown up playing multiple sports. They think differently, have much better footwork, understand how to move, etc. And yet parents force their kids into playing just one sport the whole year.
Everything sucks.
TM
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The best players in our area don't play in high school at all, because their clubs want them to play through the winter (soccer is a winter sport here). My oldest plays on the HS team, and the level of play is much lower than the club teams, because the players are relatively new to each other and don't have that many practices before the season starts. He loves playing for the school team too, but it's not the path to playing in college for those who care about that.
I have three kids who play a sport each, and we barely make that work. I have no idea how we'd manage if they added another sport. Who can do that?
