I’m a cynic about the state of youth sports today. Thankfully, both my kids were only middling athletes, so while they participated in various sports, including in HS, (and got a lot of benefits from it) I was never tempted to go down the rabbit hole of the youth sports industrial complex. Often, I found that adults ruined youth sports for their kids with hyper competitiveness, sideline coaching and other bad behavior. It’s too bad because I think youth sports offer so many benefits, but I can see why many have been turned off. For many kids, parents would be better off spending the $$ they put into private coaching/travel teams etc. towards a college savings account because for most sports the amount of scholarship money is negligible - probably not coming close to the amount that was spent on prepping their kiddo.
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