re: Is playing the same sport all year around too much for a child?

Talk to other parents. Many probably feel the same way. Find a core group and set ground rules about # of tourneys per month. If you can't find a consensus, quit together and find a team that will work better for you.

I had some dude approach me about a select baseball team for my 7 year old, then hit up our coach (a business owner) for a $5K sponsorship, which was 1/3 of what he was looking for in sponsorship total. What a joke!

Competitive local leagues will develop and remove the incentive to travel if parents and a few coaches in a community drive the change.

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I gotcha, maybe a farce tryout but the coach already knows who he's keeping etc. That's probably true everywhere.

The age thing is going to suck for older kids that are juniors in HS right now. They probably wont have a team to play on next year (club team) because most kids from their birth year will be freshmen in college.

I would think the number of soccer balls you kick with a good bit of force would add up over a soccer season. That would be the repetitive activity.

Andrews was mostly focused on baseball so soccer probably would not be as bad.

Dr. James Andrews says don't let them play year-round only one sport.

He's smarter than me about this sort of stuff AND he's a Tiger.



The upside to doing the travel and rec and school soccer with a kid is that it eliminates many opportunities for them to get in trouble over the weekends around the house because they are gone away.

And there's the chance to be with them as a parent, that's good too.

I have a BIl with 3 boys. They play every sport imaginable. They actually I'm pretty sure have a family member helping them to pay for tuition for one of the kids to a Catholic school yet they travel with all of their sports and not just locally. Mississippi. Florida. I don't know how they do it and I'm not sure I'd be willing to do it to that extent. To each his own I guess.

I guess I just value time at home with my kids hanging out. Tennis is done and dancing will be over tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to being able to have dinner together sometimes. Btw one is a senior and one a freshman. Before long they'll be gone and We won't have many chances to just hang out.

So you don't care about concussions? Heartless.

Nearly any division I college coach will tell you they prefer multi-sport athletes over the similarly talented kid who "specializes". And when you look at progressional athletes, a much smaller % of them played their sport year round compared to those who played multiple sports. But, parents are dumb and think little Susie is the next Mia Hamm so they travel all over the place and waste their time and money. When in reality, little Susie is either talented/athletic enough to get a college scholarship wether she takes a winter off to play basketball or not.

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Age 9, Academy>Rec>Select

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Ah, so your Rec team is the one that beat ours 18-0

Thanks a-hole. My kid was enjoying soccer.

Maybe...na we've never scored 18. 11 or so, yea. Next weekend at State will be the last he ever plays Rec, so U12 should be a bit better for your kid since most of the ringers will be funneled off.

Seven or eight years ago, when my boys stopped playing baseball, there were parents at our playground whose 13 and 14 year-old sons were having Tommy John surgery.

How terrible is that? I mean, great, that people can have themselves "repaired" but Tommy John was in his 30s. Thirteen and fourteen is crazy, they're not even fully grown yet, which won't happen for another ten or so years.