Reply to "Participation trophies make kids soft"

rynoattack10,000+ posts

Originally Posted by chefmike7777:

Stats, you make a good point. Varsity letters are much like participation trophies to some extent. I get frustrated when non sports get varsity letters but then all of my kids play sports. That is atopic for another day and usually becomes REALLY heated on both sides

I run a basketball program too. (sounds like a lot of us are duel sports ). Both Rec and travel are within this league 1st-8th grade. 95% are 1st-6th. We have tryouts for our travel teams. Our rec program gives participation trophies thru 6th grade. Our feeling is for many of those kids a PT will mean a lot. The $1000 we spend as a league for the 500 $2 trophies are worth every penny (to me) for the 100-300 kids that it does really mean something. for our travel program- no trophies unless earned in a tournament or winning travel league. To me, it depends on levels of competition.

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