I would say that any sport the kid excels at, has a knack for, or otherwise is really into should be the sport they might want to pursue.
I'm against forcing or otherwise encouraging a kid to play a sport because it's convenient or it's a way for a parent to live vicariously through their child.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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