Boys quit sports for the same reasons. But they are told to suck it up and quit bitching. It's one of the foundational differences between men and women. Men get used to doing things they don't like.
I always found it dumb that public HS sports were only limited to the few players that were already good as opposed to being open to all for fitness and skill development. My HS didn't really have intramural leagues.
I understand that there shouldn't be an expectation of playing time or travel to games, etc due to logistics and feasibility reasons.
But essentially my interest and experience with multiple sports died with those tryouts because I wasn't a natural athlete who excelled immediately and there wasn't another path forward otherwise.
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.
Boys quit sports for the same reasons. But they are told to suck it up and quit bitching. It's one of the foundational differences between men and women. Men get used to doing things they don't like.
I kept getting cut from multiple HS sports teams.
I always found it dumb that public HS sports were only limited to the few players that were already good as opposed to being open to all for fitness and skill development. My HS didn't really have intramural leagues.
I understand that there shouldn't be an expectation of playing time or travel to games, etc due to logistics and feasibility reasons.
But essentially my interest and experience with multiple sports died with those tryouts because I wasn't a natural athlete who excelled immediately and there wasn't another path forward otherwise.
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.