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Originally Posted by bagofpucks
We’ve got a 5 and 7 year old who both played outdoor recreational hockey the past two winters. Despite being a year too young, the younger one would not be denied playing hockey and he seems to quite enjoy it. The older one will be moving to ringette this year.
The younger one is on year 3 of recreational soccer and the older one decided to do recreational gymnastics classes instead of soccer this year; which she has really enjoyed and it’s crazy to see how much core and upper body strength she has developed. Doesn’t hurt that she lives on the monkey bars at school every day.
I feel like we’ve completed the easy portion of the sports journey for now; it sounds like ringette will be quite a bit of travel depending on which team she ends up on. I think we have one more year of outdoor rec hockey before the youngest decides he’d like to play indoor hockey. He also is really leaning into being a goalie, so pray for our financial lives.
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Since our sports journey has started we've actually discovered community hockey is one of the cheaper sports out there. Dance and gymnastics for my 4yr old daughter are 80$/mo each for 4 times a month. Hockey ends up being 128$/mo but we get 12-16 ice times a month. So the trick is to have a kid that loves it and is good enough where you get to watch some good hockey, but not so good that they play "elite" level.
That being said we know a bunch of people who are paying over 10k a year for their 9 year olds to play on HSL & travel teams.