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    That Competitive Edge Starts in the Cradle
    Sylvia Singleton offers tennis lessons in suburban Washington to children as young as two for $40 a half hour, and she has lots of willing takers. In neary Montgomery County, Maryland, three-year-olds learn golf in a sports camp. . . . In Loudoun County, Virginia, soccer classes begin at age three.

    Sunny Erlanger, mother of three-year-old Paige, says given the competition, starting at three is a necessity.

    "I think you have an edge starting at three with all her friends starting at four and five," says Erlanger. "It seems that it's gotten so competitive in this area that you have to start them younger." Erlanger says soccer is only Paige's second sport. Tennis is first. . . .

    — Kathy Slobogin
    Toddler Athletes a Growing Trend
    CNN
    June 6, 2002
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/06/06/cov.super.toddlers/index.html

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