5 Myths about playing “ELITE” travel youth sports:
1. Because you pay a lot of money your child’s athletic ability has a quantitative value. Oh boy! I have heard over and over people brag about how much money they have spent on their child’s youth sports experience. I have heard parents brag/complain about how whipped they are from the brutal schedule their child has in youth sports. Parents bragging about their child’s Orthopeadic surgeon of personal trainer. I have heard parents say “they got cut” from a team “My son signed his first contract to play junior hockey. (Even though they paid $10,000 to play on that team. I have seen children go play on an elite academy team with their families paying thousands of dollars and bragging about it only to hear that they regretted the decision.
There is no correlation to the money you spend on your child’s athletic “elite” travel team and their ability to play at a higher level. You can’t buy talent. If this was true, how do poor kids reach their athletic peak? Think of this example. Your child has a cold. You take her to the pediatrician and they give a prescription for some medicine. You are done. You are not sent to a specialist and pay more money do you? You go to a specialist to get special results. What if this is not a special situation? Then wouldn’t you get frustrated?
Over and over again we hear the disappointment in the end game of this monetary path. The money spent far outweighs the money the families receive in scholarship. There is a tangible hangover to this paradigm. We see it every day.
On our website frozenshorts.com we have a form to fill out that will tell you what it cost per hour for your child to play elite travel sports for a weekend.
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