Many of us are or will be parents with kids participating in sports. They'll participate for fun. For fitness. To develop character and build resiliency. Maybe even get college paid for.
Here are some things to consider:
Travel select teams. Year round baseball, basketball, volleyball and soccer. Going all in on a sport at age 9. These are increasingly common aspects of youth sports and it's a bad trend. Meanwhile, free play and informal pick up games are becoming less common. The dominant form of exercise for little kids should be free play. Sadly, kids self-organizing and playing sports or games together is less frequent in today's over structured and over scheduled youth.