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05-18-2022, 08:07 PM | #2 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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All sports have try outs for teams younger than that. Parents have to cover $2000-$10K a season to play with the best teams. I’m glad my kid aged out before it got like that.
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05-18-2022, 08:08 PM | #3 |
Supporter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
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05-18-2022, 08:21 PM | #4 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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I wouldn’t put us in a out of town tournaments unless we could drive back to KC at night. I rarely got the best players because they and the parents felt they had to be on one of the traveling teams to give their son a chance at a scholarship or MLB.
We did get ranked top 5 one year and got to play in a WS. That was pretty cool. But I’m really happy with my choice to not be a traveling team. Enable families lives to revolve around a son playing a kids game in the dirt and grass. |
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05-18-2022, 10:30 PM | #5 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Kansas
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My oldest played youth soccer from age 6-13. It ranks as the biggest scam I've come across thus far as a parent. Between all of the fees and the bullshit "Academy"teams and what not, it's stupid. When he said this year he wanted to quit to do track and school, he did not get any flack from me.
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