Youth soccer club
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Mtsc is still pretty popular here, right?
My daughter played rec soccer a while ago.
I’m not around traditional youth sports enough to know, but I will say: I can’t recall any friends whose kids play basketball / baseball talking about the boys and girls club anymore. They’re all playing club / travel ball too.
South Country Soccer in Glenpool is definitely rec as well. Assume there are others around.
Bixby has a youth baseball league which is 100% rec. Assume there are others as well.
Indian nations always had what I would consider rec basketball. Assume they’re still around
Baseball. I tried to get my kid on a little league team and it was just awful. His team had kids thrown together while the other 3 teams in the league were all competitive teams that were using this league as their practice for competitive season. Because of this, the kids on the throw together team, didn't have any fun and dreaded games.
I think soccer is somewhat healthy at the younger ages but by the time you hit 11v11 there aren't a ton of those teams in the rec/rec+ leagues and many of the kids who could afford to have moved to Blitz/WSA/TSC who put them on lower teams and treat them like rec players while charging them academy fees. Football is fine, especially around Tulsa because there are so many kids playing and they indoctrinate the kids into their respective organizations by calling them Broken Arrow this and Union and imply they are part of the school system with the naming (they are not in any way affiliated with the schools before 8th grade). But again, the point is more the parents pushing it than the kids asking for it. My son probably would have been fine playing rec soccer if I had stayed coaching rec soccer but we looked at competitive because all of his friends (and my entire team of 9 year olds) all were moving to TSC and Blitz.
When I played baseball at a younger age (8-12), our league had registrations and took only as many players through that process as could allocated to the 8 teams in the league. Every team in the 8-10 division had 5 10 year olds, 5 9 year olds, and 5 8 year olds. Every one got at least 1 AB each game and at least 1 inning in the field. And the teams were allocated players randomly. Kids that returned after playing as an 8 year old were allocated to the same team so you'd have kids playing together for a minimum of 2 years and they made it hard to move teams to discourage teams from recruiting players from other teams in the league. It changed a little going to 13/14 old ball because you had 5-6 11/12 year olds leagues merging into one Pony League with 12 teams. Not everyone who tried out got a spot in that one. There were 3 of us who started as 8 year olds playing together until we were 14 (we got drafted by the same Pony League team). Point is, I made a ton of friends in this system, I had a lot of fun in this system, and I loved baseball because of this system. I always figured I'd be able to help
My son develop that same love for the game but the experience was not the same and we couldn't find a league/system here that was even remotely close to providing that same opportunity.
My son has played baseball the last two year in the Bixby rec league (8-9 year olds). Outside of a few teams (you always have those) the rest of the teams were truly what I would consider “rec”. I have no clue regarding the other baseball leagues around town.
I do believe there is a shortage of rec leagues for older kids in most sports. Now are the low number of rec leagues in the older age groups related to a low number of kids playing these sports in these age groups ?
No idea. I hear absolute horror stories about baseball from so many parents. There is a sort of club system, but not so much. It is super expensive, too. Plus, ALL the travel ball kids do private training—all of them. The ring thing is just too funny.
My wife is letting my son play baseball this spring, and I dread it. I hate baseball. I think it is so boring. But if he wants it at his age, we will let him give it a go. The tee-ball was a joke, and we told each other never again until the coach pitched.
There seems to be still some rec soccer, but I skipped it because I wasn't interested. I couldn't bring myself to play it.
There doesn't seem to be any rec volleyball. Everything is a club, and that isn't cheap.
This was a good video. I agree to an extent. Unfortunately, I think some things begin at a younger age. That is just how it is, for better or worse.
I9 offers youth rec leagues in most sports including soccer, baseball, volleyball, flag football and basketball. The YMCA also offers youth leagues in volleyball and basketball
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