I know two kids, both great lax players, both had major injuries and tons of wear and tear problems with their feet because of how much they played. Now maybe kids will stop playing MS, maybe they will stop playing JV and Varsity and it will only be club, but I doubt it. SO if you want to take a 12 year old kids, put him through two hours of practice 6 days a week and then travel on top of it, even if you get lucky and you don't burn him out mentally , you will grind him down physically. . Cripes, Travel can freaking take tow months off.

Yea and those schools you mentioned have a massive amount of travel organization affiliations on each of those named teams.. If you think those are strictly town .. think again. This age group in particular is tremendous in the amount of travel being played , any organization will tell you 2021 is the largest draw of all age groups , and play level is above and beyond for the majority of those kids then what's ahead of them when they were at that age.
Its on an incline and the younger are even more savvy then the 2021's . times have changed and the game has changed !