It's interesting that the author concludes that school sports are over-emphasized over club and travel teams (just to be clear, I think there are a lot of good

It's interesting that the author concludes that school sports are over-emphasized over club and travel teams (just to be clear, I think there are a lot of good points in the article). I played sports in high school, as did my brother and sister. My experience (and my understanding of a lot of the West Coast) was almost the opposite. Our high school soccer season was considered almost like the offseason compared to the club season, which required way more time and travel, and was also the path to college recruitment. My sister's experience with volleyball was the same. In basketball and baseball, AAU and travel teams take up much more time than school sports, most of which actually have some limits on when practice can occur (we couldn't have anything on Sundays related to school sports, but club had no such rules). Football is the only exception to this, in my experience. Maybe the East Coast is different, but when I was growing up and going through the recruiting process, school sports didn't take up nearly as much of my attention.