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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postnot at all (23 year old adult)- so i guess you simply cut them free
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostA NT player with a Penn degree will do just fine. A gender study degree from a tiny LAC unknown outside the NE? Tougher sell. Don't downsize the family home quite yet.
got an advertising degree....about as useless as a gender studies degree
it was from penn state, not really a top academic school
someone said life changing? Please.....this isnt a guy playing in the EPL. IT is women soccer in holland. maybe they get as many fans as penn state did...maybe
If daddy has money....then I agree, another 2 years of college, but with no degree
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postwasnt a national team player!
got an advertising degree....about as useless as a gender studies degree
it was from penn state, not really a top academic school
someone said life changing? Please.....this isnt a guy playing in the EPL. IT is women soccer in holland. maybe they get as many fans as penn state did...maybe
If daddy has money....then I agree, another 2 years of college, but with no degree
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postwasnt a national team player!
got an advertising degree....about as useless as a gender studies degree
it was from penn state, not really a top academic school
someone said life changing? Please.....this isnt a guy playing in the EPL. IT is women soccer in holland. maybe they get as many fans as penn state did...maybe
If daddy has money....then I agree, another 2 years of college, but with no degree
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There’s a kid from Ridgefield who went to the 2014 and 2018 Olympics for luge and a girl from Westport who went to the 2018 Olympics for snowboarding. The luge kid’s parents built an actual luge run in his backyard after the 2002 Olympics, which helps explain he got good enough to compete in the Olympics in luge despite being from CT. The snowboarder went to Stratton Mountain School so that explains how she could get good enough to go to the Olympics. Not sure if luge athletes can earn money but top snowboarders can.
If I think of a sport where your geographic location doesn’t matter I think of swimming. A top swimmer could come out of CT but I don’t think we’ve ever had one. The list of athletes from CT who made money from playing sports is minuscule compared to the thousands of kids who have talent but not quite enough to make it to the big leagues.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLike soccer?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere’s a kid from Ridgefield who went to the 2014 and 2018 Olympics for luge and a girl from Westport who went to the 2018 Olympics for snowboarding. The luge kid’s parents built an actual luge run in his backyard after the 2002 Olympics, which helps explain he got good enough to compete in the Olympics in luge despite being from CT. The snowboarder went to Stratton Mountain School so that explains how she could get good enough to go to the Olympics. Not sure if luge athletes can earn money but top snowboarders can.
If I think of a sport where your geographic location doesn’t matter I think of swimming. A top swimmer could come out of CT but I don’t think we’ve ever had one. The list of athletes from CT who made money from playing sports is minuscule compared to the thousands of kids who have talent but not quite enough to make it to the big leagues.
I got a nephew who was an Olympic class swimmer. Made the team twice. Coaches college swimming now as a living.
Don't think geographics don't matter. Every family trip, event or vacation this family took for many years had major requirements that the kid had access to a pool for training. It affected where they went, when they went and created all kinds of logistics challenges for them to find suitable training pools, get access to them, etc. Probably cost a lot too.
There's no off-season for the world class swimmers.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI got a nephew who was an Olympic class swimmer. Made the team twice. Coaches college swimming now as a living.
Don't think geographics don't matter. Every family trip, event or vacation this family took for many years had major requirements that the kid had access to a pool for training. It affected where they went, when they went and created all kinds of logistics challenges for them to find suitable training pools, get access to them, etc. Probably cost a lot too.
There's no off-season for the world class swimmers.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere’s a kid from Ridgefield who went to the 2014 and 2018 Olympics for luge and a girl from Westport who went to the 2018 Olympics for snowboarding. The luge kid’s parents built an actual luge run in his backyard after the 2002 Olympics, which helps explain he got good enough to compete in the Olympics in luge despite being from CT. The snowboarder went to Stratton Mountain School so that explains how she could get good enough to go to the Olympics. Not sure if luge athletes can earn money but top snowboarders can.
If I think of a sport where your geographic location doesn’t matter I think of swimming. A top swimmer could come out of CT but I don’t think we’ve ever had one. The list of athletes from CT who made money from playing sports is minuscule compared to the thousands of kids who have talent but not quite enough to make it to the big leagues.
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