I am finding myself doing what I said I would never do, that is exploring what it would take for my kid to play sports in college. I’m not talking D1 or anything, but after sending my oldest to college, I like the idea of a coach monitoring her attendance in class and her grades. She is a diligent student but has moderately severe dyslexia and average intelligence. Based on PSAT performance her sat/act scores will be below average, so I’m wondering if playing a sport could help her gain admission as well if she is a borderline candidate as I expect she could be. 1) how do we even know if this is possible? We often have strangers approaching us telling us that she should play in college, but we have always blown them off presuming they are trying to get her to play on their select team (a world we have never considered due to having five kids). 2) she goes to a newer small private school (c 200 alumni) and no one has ever played college sports. Is there something the school would have to do? To this point all of her coaches have been volunteer parents. 3) what sport would be a good place to start? She loves them all, and is almost immediately the best player on any team no matter how new she is to the sport. I can’t imagine her successfully competing against kids who have been playing select soccer, basketball or volleyball for years, but, then again, she does and she does great. 4) Im definitely not objective, and small private school sports is not that great of competition. So it seems like if we had college caliber athletes in our league, they would be going on to play in college, right? Should I just put this out of my mind? I don’t want to put any ideas in her head where she’d feel disappointment if it didn’t work out, or worse that she had disappointed us.