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5 Reasons to Get Your Child Involved with a Travel Team

October 7, 2019 By Emily Joswiak Leave a Comment

Many kids try sports when they are younger because there are so many positives that come with it that can help them in life. There also comes a point when your child might show talent that can lead to exciting opportunities. If this is the case, here are five reasons to get your child involved with a travel team.

Opportunities to Travel

Enlisting your child in a travel team gives them the opportunity to see interesting parts of the country. If you decide to go with them, traveling can be a bonding experience for you and your child. Traveling to a location can be a mini-vacation of sorts. While you are out there, try to take time to explore the area; you never know when the opportunity will come again.

More Friendships

Travel teams consist of young players from around the area, state, region, or country. Either way, playing with them can form friendships with people from all over. Sports can develop many life skills, and meeting new people and socializing is one of them.

Higher Levels of Competition

Competition will be at a new level right away, since travel teams require tryouts. Your child will travel to tournaments to play against more competitive teams from all over the country. The obvious benefit is that this will force your child to step up and become a better player.

Better Coaching

Your child’s skills will also improve through better coaching. This is another major reason to get your child involved with a travel team. High-caliber coaches are often recruited to lead travel teams, so they can coach players and develop their talent. Travel team coaching is at a different level, and your child should improve in their sport as a result.

More Exposure

If you want to increase your child’s exposure to recruiters, travel teams are the way to go. Sports can help with school in numerous ways. One such way is the chance to get noticed by recruiters and potentially get a scholarship to play in college. Participating in travel sports makes this more likely to happen, since your child will play in front of the recruiters.

The Benefits of Letting Your Kids Play Multiple Sports

November 17, 2016 By Brandon Capaletti Leave a Comment

In a generation where winning trophies and earning scholarships dominate youth athletics, children are being pushed to specialize in a single sport as early as their pre-teen years.

Kids as young as 7 and 8 years old are playing one sport year-round instead of participating in a variety of sports, and parents have one simple argument for this approach: By picking one sport and training at that sport exclusively, the young athlete would be more likely to excel at that sport.

But what if allowing your children to compete in multiple sports throughout the year proves to be safer and more beneficial to the child’s athletic success? Cisco Athletic created a slideshow (which can be viewed below) on the benefits of children playing multiple sports.

The Benefits of Playing Multiple Sports from Cisco Athletic

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