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When Joonyer was a freshman in high school...

Dec 6, 2018, 9:29 AM

he tried out for the baseball team and got cut. Only 2 9th graders made JV that year because both the JV and varsity team was loaded. He had played almost year around rec ball from the time he was 10 years old, but never wanted to do the travel ball thing (which I was happy about). I asked him what he was going to do until rec ball started up, and he said he and a bunch of his pals were going to try out for the golf team as lark, hang out hitting balls at the country club for a week. I laughed and said sounds good, knowing the kid had never played golf in his life. On Friday, I leave from work to pick him up from try outs and the coach comes over and asks if I can bring him back Monday, because he and another kid were going to play-off for the last slot. I was shocked...he had no clubs, no shoes, no golf gear of any kind, but he was a natural.

Joonyer goes out Monday and earns the spot (my Dad spent the entire weekend trying to crash course the game with him, LOL) and actually ends up playing in a couple of tournaments, and spends the season learning the game. Sent him to a golf camp that summer, and he ends up lettering all 4 years and finishes his senior year in the number 2 slot on the team.

The crazy thing is that he could play in a golf match after school, leave the golf course and come to the baseball field and play a baseball game without one sport having any impact on the other. The kid could always swing a bat. I would ask him every year of he was going back to try out for school baseball, and he would always so no, he would play golf at the school in the spring and play rec ball all spring and summer because it was the only way he could do both. And he did that all 4 years of high school.

The one thing I do remember was that the school did a spring sports team introduction event one night in the gym before the season kicked off, and the golf coach said in his little speech that more parents should look into golf and tennis as alternatives for their kids, but many times those scholarships were not always filled at colleges, where football/basketball/baseball schollies were filled quickly because the recruits were identified a couple of years before the kids graduated. He said colleges got more out golf and tennis kids over their lifetime than they ever did from the three major sports in terms of lifetime commitment to the colleges. That always stuck with me.

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GITT if your kid does or did play a "travel" sport

outrageous

I bet thats what the coaches at the Citadel say

That's certainly what the cadets say***

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Re: GITT if your kid does or did play a "travel" sport

#### each and every one of these and the parents who do this

that's a lot of salt for breakfast, bruh***

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I have one in gymnastics now. I am ALL IN with regret.

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dang, that girl is young for all that pressure

I don't get that reference

i was just being polite

lulz***

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You really should let her play.

teach your kid to be a golfer

When Joonyer was a freshman in high school...

1.Daughter played travel volleyball for 5 years.

this basically explains my childhood

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I knew some dudes who were into the competitive cheering

I think you have to be mentally ill to stick with it***

One of them did it until his mid 20's

I played AAU baseball all through my youth,

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