Children-common sports activities

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That's a pretty tiny sample.
Here, at least, people put their kids in activities they're likely to get scholarships for. A friend of mine played soccer for years, as did her sister. Their father pushed both of them to get soccer scholarships. She now has a badly screwed up knee and ankle.
I also don't know how many people consider their kid's riding around the neighborhood (for example) as a separate physical activity from playing outside. I don't think mine did...apart from their insistence that I wear a helmet.

Sure it's a tiny sample....out of 300 adult respondents by telephone survey. Must mean less people are having children. I'm certain a non-English speaking adult couldn't respond properly for the survey. (Sorry, to bring it up...but survey biases are there. One just has to read more closely and figure it out.)

Enrolling child for fee-based/organized sports...for increasing school scholarships: Sports scholarships are nearly unheard of in Canada universities. (But any Canadian TE is free to add their opinion.) I personally know of only 1 Canadian teen who got a sports scholarship...for a Florida university. It was for tennis. No, kid was not a dummy and his parents were/are wealthy to help.

Gets more complicated/impossible when parent(s) can't afford to enroll child in a sport that requires fees. So my childhood/teenage sports choices reflect free physical activities. Only variation with siblings, is that some of my sisters did jogging for their school teams. Free of course. This is why cutting out physical education programs in schools is a crappy idea.