If kids are only motivated by a trophy/trinket at the end of the year, then they've got bigger problems than everybody getting the same trophy. Kids should play sports because they're fun and healthy.
I played hockey when I was a kid, and I was awful at it. But I have some wonderful memories of it - mostly from playing on teams that were so bad that we didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. We only won a couple games a year, we never got trophies or medals or anything like that, but we got some good exercise and had a heck of a lot of fun.
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