I'm hitting the sports stage! My boy is 3 and is starting Tee Ball next weekend. So we went last night to Academy sports and I kind of went a little over board. We all know he needs a glove but, I wanted more. We also bought him his own Easton bat and a gear bag. Had they had Under Armor batting gloves also. This is going to be fun! So what sport did your child start out in. How are they now and how old are they? Tell me a little about your kids sports lives.
My daughter started out in Tball when she was 4. She really enjoys it. I coach the local town team, and she also plays for a more competitive travel/tournament team. She's 9 now and has been taking pitching lessons for the last 18 month. She's really getting the hang of it. Her pitching coach is very rough and gruff and gets on her a lot, but she never break sdown. She gets mad as hell, but keeps her composure. I think that will serve her well down the road when she gets put in some tough situations.
My daughter started dancing at 6 or 7. Softball at 9. TkD at 9 and got her bb at 12. She played some softball and even lettered in high school but dance was her passion and dropped out of softball all together in her junior year. Her dance team in high school won a national championship in Florida her senior year. She is now dancing in college. My son started pitching machine baseball at 4. Played some soccer at 5-7 and was heads above most his age and he just didn't enjoy it enough to stay with it. Started TKD at 4 and got his bb at 7. He played ABA basketball through 12 yrs old and school ball until 7th grade but quit to pursue baseball. Baseball was his first passion and favorite. His cal ripken team won a state title at 7, 11, 12. Lost in the regional semis at 11 and 12. He started playing high school ball in the 7th grade and he is in the 9th grade now playing freshman and jv ball. Shortstop last season and 3rd this season sent from my samsung note 2
My first sport was lacrosse when I was in 2nd grade. I'm 14 now and I absolutely love it. I play year round. But it is still second to archery. I tarted archery in 5 th grade and that is what I will do forever and teach my kids
I have three boys and they've all played every sport known to mankind from weee little lads. Hockey, golf, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, football, table tennis, badmitton, swimming, cross country, javelin throw, ping pong, etc...lol. I intorduced them to a lot and got them involved. Never pushed them one way or the other (maybe slight persuasion)... just always there as guidance and advice. They took it and made it there own and found their own little area of the sports world. Have one going to D1 school on baseball scholarship, another heading the same for lacrosse and the youngest yet to be determined but ping pong is looking good lol. None of them really took to golf (which is my thing... along with lax) and that's cool. Like I said I let them find their own way. All tremendous athletes and have achieved so much at their ages. First and foremost is grades and schoolwork which they put above anything else. Blessed and lucky. Don't push them and have fun with it. Let the chips fall where they will.
Well, I don't have any kids, but my first sport was wrestling at the rip ol' age of 4. Around the time I started fishing..
My girls are 4 (5 in June). They have been doing gymnastics for a year now. This spring they will start soccer. That was my first sport as well, so of course I'll be coaching. Also, they've been shooting their bow for a little over a year now. The unfortunate part is that I will be in Brazil on business for their first game.
Me and my brothers started with soccer and moved to baseball. Isaac won one youth baseball championship, Ethan won 2-3 and Luke won 5 straight. The Chatham VFW teams were pretty badass Isaac played football until he broke his foot and Luke played until he broke his head...both around 8th grade. Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2
My daughter started with t ball, did that for 2 years and tried gymnastics. She's been doing that since (she's 9 now), she's on the competitive team which consumes 3 hours a night so it don't leave much time for anything else. Too bad too because she's a great skater and has a heck of a fast ball.
My kid was a "I want to play everything" kind of kid. We went through Tee Ball, little league, hockey and all that. He was SO SO. So so infact that the opposing team would walk the guy ahead of him to get to my son for the last out. Yes, it was a tramatic time. Then he got to highschool. He had wheels(fast feet) and could work a lacrosse stick. My kid was/is really smart... let's say brilliant by most standards. He was a starter on the highschool lacrosse team as a sophomore. Unofficially he was recruited by the Air Force Academy for lacrosse. He was also a big song and dance theater guy... tremendous voice. So at the beginning of his junior year we(he really) laid out colleges he wanted to visit during spring break. County rules said no one could practice sports during spring break. So we laid on an extensive college tour. His coach told him he would be at the unauthorized practices over spring break. My son explained to him we had plans to visit colleges to map out his future. The coach exploded and went into a tizzy saying he should never have drawn a uniform. If he wasn't present at the illegal practices...he wasn't going to be playing a minute. He told my son you better be there or turn in your uniform. My son walked to the training room and turned in his uniform. He never played lacrosse again. He did continue football however. Over the next week and a half we went to MIT, Harvard, West Point, Tuff, Virginia, Wake Forest, UNC and Duke. Duke was our last stop. He and I took the tour together. He said.. Dad, this is it. I'm coming here. I said, Hold on... this is more money than I planned. He calmly said, I'll get a scholarship...and he did, full ride academic. He never played sports again. He did however do a bunch of summer theater stuff and a couple plays in college for fun. He's now into heavy cycling and that kind of stuff. This past year he climbed to the top of Everest, rode in a bunch of big cycle things just to say he did them and all that. To him, 75 miles is a warm up. He's now on his second tour with Microsoft. He could give a rat azz about little league. He lived through it. LOL
My son played High School Baseball and loved it and had offer to play college ball but opted instead to go to college in Colorado to be close to the mountains for Snowboarding and is on the college Snowboard team. But while he played all sports as a youngster, baseball was his least favorite early on ( until he was 11 and started warming up to it) because it was too slow compared to soccer or baketball. As a father I concur. As much as I love baseball and enjoyed watching him play as he got older, T ball starts way too early for most kids and sours a lot of them towards the game. IMO, soccer is the best sport for the pee wee ages. It keeps them moving and engaged. While my son never played soccer after 6th grade because it conflicted with his Jr. High sports, it was by far his favorite up to that point.
My son is 3, he has Tae Kwon Do two days a week and a Gynmastics class one day a week. He has been in Gymnastics since last September and Tae Kwon Do since the first of the year.
Wyatt started out with Soccer last summer at 5 and will be in T-Ball starting next month and then on to soccer again after T-Ball is over. Honestly, if he wants to play sports, great. If not, I'm fine with that too.
Both of my sons played everything available to them. Starting with t-ball, soccer, football, basketball, etc. This will be the first summer in 13 years that I will not be coaching baseball. It was a great ride. My youngest is playing highschool tennis now and my oldest is going to college on a D1 cycling scholarship. He just won a national championship in January and recently spent spring break in Tennessee with his team training in the mountains on road bike. I think a lot of kids are pushed a little overboard with activities. Make sure they are doing what they want to do and that they have plenty of time to just be kids.
