Don't you just have to "sign up", to get into the state tournament in USSSA? Mom's post way too much **** on Facebook. We don't need a family picture after every tournament. Especially if you go to tournaments every weekend.
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Don't you just have to "sign up", to get into the state tournament in USSSA? Mom's post way too much **** on Facebook. We don't need a family picture after every tournament. Especially if you go to tournaments every weekend.
I agree with you. I9 was a great way to get started in football - one day of practice and a game for a total time commitment of about 90 minutes for the week. I coached a few seasons, they have both a fall and spring season, and it was perfect. Oh, I wasn't a great coach by any stretch but was competent enough and smart enough to know my limitations. We did have to travel to Waukee for a few games, but that wasn't a big deal. My son loved it and so did his parents!
For 6th and 7th grade he did Ankeny Junior (flag) Football with practice three nights a week and a game on Sunday. Practices began a week or so before Labor Day and they had six games. It was just enough.
Eighth grade is a different animal. Football practice (and it is practice and not conditioning like advertised) and weight training three mornings a week for all of June and July.
My son also plays lacrosse for Ankeny Thunder. That's a great sport btw. It does cost a couple hundred bucks because of equipment rental and helping to rent practice fields. There is some travel. This year the 14U teams traveled to the Quad Cities for a double header, Mount Vernon for a double header, the Meskwaki settlement, and Rockford, IL and Farmington, MN for a tournament. The tournaments were new this year and were a product of the players asking for it. Travel is much more for JV and Varisty because of having to play Nebraska teams. There is also a summer all-star team out of Waukee with three out-of-state tournaments but the summer is not required a lot of players don't participate.
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Seems straightforward to me!
Just put your kid in the "t-ball development program" (seriously, they offer it), at age 3 and 14 yrs later and around $75,000 you should have a scholarship locked up!
This stuff always cracks me up, you can't make it up!
Our T-ball and Coach Pitch Development program is designed specifically for youth players age 3-5 (t-ball) and 5-6 (coach pitch), to help develop a love for the game and learn the core fundamentals needed to advance to higher level baseball.
Ever watch those games? I caught moments when at the Ankeny fields. My god watch a joke, and I feel bad for those kids.
The giant printed banners with the entire team on them (that seem to get created or handed out after every tourney) crack me up. How many of those do ya need!? How much do those cost!?
All I know is that if my hometown is not an absolute juggernaut at the high school level in 6-8 years I'll be amazed. These kids are getting rings and pennants at every tournament!
I've been reading about the explosion of Lacrosse. There was a guy on a podcast I listen to who was a sales and marketing leader for New Balance and they're spending a ton of time and effort into development of shoes for lacrosse and to a lesser extent pro paintball (they wear the same shoes). I hadn't ever seen lacrosse anything until a couple years ago. I guess since baseball and hockey have gotten so competitive for suburban white kids their parents had to find something else to live vicariously through them.
Could be. My kid tried baseball and didn't like it, and never showed interest in hockey thank god. I know we steered him towards lacrosse because he wanted to play tackle football and we though a fast paced contact sport like lacrosse would dissuade him from a collision sport like tackle football. It hasn't, but it still may, and in the meantime he fell in love with lacrosse. And if I am being honest I never played lacrosse and thought it looked really cool. It is really cool. What I like about lacrosse of today is there are more opportunities to play than there are players. Kids don't need to have been playing since age 8 to get on a team and see significant minutes. Of course that could change with the growth of the sport but that is not the way it is today. Lastly lacrosse is really fast. The players fly up and down the field, and the games move quickly. A 14U game from start to finish is less than an hour. There is a lot to like about lacrosse.
No. They were outside most of the time. We would work with them and wash them once a week.
I have two banners from when our boys were 11 and 12. They got one for getting second in a AA tournament, and one they just got for being in the tournament. We pinned them up on the back of their dugouts when they were playing. They thought that was cool and that they looked so bad ass. LOL.... I don't know what to do with them now. I guess I'll put them up at his grad party to see what they all looked like when they were little turds.
