My son needs to develop his baseball skills. Is it possible to play on a baseball travel team while playing on a basketball travel team in the summer? How does the baseball travel team circuit work?
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Travel tournaments are played on the weekend in every travel sport. A player can't be 100% committed to both. Your son will have to choose a priority sport, then find a secondary team/sport that won't mind him missing games and practices. Good luck! The secondary sport will probably have to be played at a lower level of competition where his skill level overcomes the absenses.
My son attends basketball and s****r camps in the summer since he's committed to travel baseball. He can't play AAU basketball or select s****r since it's played in the same season as baseball.
The high school s****r coach thinks he's college s****r material. The high school basketball coach wants him on an AAU basketball team. C'est la vie! Baseball is the priority.
My son attends basketball and s****r camps in the summer since he's committed to travel baseball. He can't play AAU basketball or select s****r since it's played in the same season as baseball.
The high school s****r coach thinks he's college s****r material. The high school basketball coach wants him on an AAU basketball team. C'est la vie! Baseball is the priority.
It would practically be impossible to do both at the same time for two competitive teams because the schedeles would clash way to much.
Travels teams in SoCal are now requiring greater commitment from their players in all sports then when I was kid. When I was growing up, this wasn't an issue. We played baseball in the spring and s****r in the fall.
My son had played baseball in the spring and s****r during the fall since he was 4 years old. He started playing club baseball when he was 10 years old, but he still played s****r in the fall because s****r was played on Saturdays and club baseball was on Sundays. My son is a very good s****r player, but we never made a commitment to a club team because they demand a year round commitment. I found that the s****r coaches resent the fact that my son plays baseball. Meanwhile baseball coaches seemed to be more accomadating. He was and is very desirable in s****r because he is a very fast left footed player (he throws & bats right handed). When he was younger he was small, but fast and dominated on defense. When he was in 14U as a 13 year old he was very dominating on the field on both offense and defense. Even though he was one of the smaller players, he was a kind of an enforcer and averaged 1 goal a game even though he was the defensive player known as the sweeper or last man. Goals against when he played sweeper was .25 even when his team had a weak goalie. In one tournament, which they won, a total of 1 goal in 6 games was scored against his team. Now he is even faster and now 6' tall (and still growing).
He is very good at s****r, but he loves baseball more than anything. He wants nothing to interfere with his baseball. S****r overlaps with baseball tryouts. If they get to s****r playoffs it overlaps with a couple of spring games. High school summer s****r also interferes with Junior Olympic baseball and high school summer league. S****r did not overlap with spring baseball when I was in high school .
The s****r coach at his school is also a dean of the school and has called my son out of his class to request that he play for the school offering him a spot on varsity. The s****r coach also called me. My response: I am not going to make him play if he doesn't want to.
My son had played baseball in the spring and s****r during the fall since he was 4 years old. He started playing club baseball when he was 10 years old, but he still played s****r in the fall because s****r was played on Saturdays and club baseball was on Sundays. My son is a very good s****r player, but we never made a commitment to a club team because they demand a year round commitment. I found that the s****r coaches resent the fact that my son plays baseball. Meanwhile baseball coaches seemed to be more accomadating. He was and is very desirable in s****r because he is a very fast left footed player (he throws & bats right handed). When he was younger he was small, but fast and dominated on defense. When he was in 14U as a 13 year old he was very dominating on the field on both offense and defense. Even though he was one of the smaller players, he was a kind of an enforcer and averaged 1 goal a game even though he was the defensive player known as the sweeper or last man. Goals against when he played sweeper was .25 even when his team had a weak goalie. In one tournament, which they won, a total of 1 goal in 6 games was scored against his team. Now he is even faster and now 6' tall (and still growing).
He is very good at s****r, but he loves baseball more than anything. He wants nothing to interfere with his baseball. S****r overlaps with baseball tryouts. If they get to s****r playoffs it overlaps with a couple of spring games. High school summer s****r also interferes with Junior Olympic baseball and high school summer league. S****r did not overlap with spring baseball when I was in high school .
The s****r coach at his school is also a dean of the school and has called my son out of his class to request that he play for the school offering him a spot on varsity. The s****r coach also called me. My response: I am not going to make him play if he doesn't want to.
Wow. S o c c e r is a bad word here.
MTS
basically it is a non word !!!!
basically it is a non word !!!!
quote:Originally posted by TRhit:
MTS
basically it is a non word !!!!
It is funnier for s****r to be thought of as a bad word.
When he was in 5th grade, my son had his leg broken playing s****r and he missed his entire spring baseball season.
He has never said the s****r word again without the d**n in front of it
He has never said the s****r word again without the d**n in front of it
Socker a dirty word? Absolutely!!!
Here's my bumper sticker:
Here's my bumper sticker:
communist undermining of American youth....
(don't know where that came from originally)
(don't know where that came from originally)
My son plays s****r. However, it still ticks me off when I see s****r goals in baseball outfields in the fall. I don't remember outfields being so lumpy when I was a kid. No one played s****r in the outfield.
quote:Originally posted by RJM:
My son plays s****r. However, it still ticks me off when I see s****r goals in baseball outfields in the fall. I don't remember outfields being so lumpy when I was a kid. No one played s****r in the outfield.
When we were touring prospective top local private college prep high schools, my son noticed the s****r posts in the outfield at one of the schools and said there was no way he would want to attend that school.