Travel Sports in Additional Info

Thoughts on listing travel sports in additional info? Didn’t put in avtivities bc it’s not school related. Also, stopped playing travel once HS sports began. Travel is a big part of S youth, dedicating much time, feel application would be incomplete without mentioning. Thank you.

The schools will not really care that he traveled for sports (or music, or robotic) in 8th grade. I think the only thing they’d care about is something like Eagle Scout.

Activities do not have to be school related at all. They want to know what you do with your time outside of class in your school, in your community, and elsewhere.

I agree that sports probably don’t belong on his application because he quit before high school. They only care about what you did in high school, unless you won some big international award or something, or it’s part of on continuing activity. Does he still do sports at all, in a house league or something? If so, then he could list in the activities section the sport, how long he’s been playing, and how much of that was travel soccer.

For example, when I applied to colleges (high school class of 2014), I had a lot of music activities and one of them was piano in my high school jazz bands, so I listed that I took lessons from age 4 through 8th grade. I also had been dancing since I was about 3 (outside of school), so I listed when I started dance, what styles I was trained in (regardless of whether I continued with them in high school) and when I got my pointe shoes (8th grade), because that is an important milestone in a ballet student’s training.

@guineagirl96 Yes, he does still play the sports in HS, that is why I think 10+ years of commitment to something deserves a place. He has multiple awards to list, that is why I was thinking of additional info. He also plans to continue in college.