Similar deal here. I tried out for hockey in high school, was very clearly outclassed and could never make the team, yet my mother would bitch at me for not being active and not being in a sport in school. There would have been no way for me to reasonably reach a level where I could have made the team without climbing to higher regional hockey leagues, and by the time I would have climbed high enough to have a chance I would have been out of high school anyways.

At the end of the day, sports is recreational to me. I didn't want to invest the ungodly amount of time to be good enough to make a school team, I just wanted some fun exercise on the side.