I agree 100%... some areas are starting to see the potential athletes among homeschoolers and letting them play for their public school teams. We knew one homeschooler that played for his local school and he’s playing in the minors (as a catcher), but you have to be pretty exceptional for a school district to be willing to make that exception.
I know in Idaho homeschoolers can play sports and use some of the other resources of the local schools, at least it was that way a few years ago when we were looking at moving there.
The homeschool sports program near me is about 15 years old with about 2,000 participants- but the people that manage it are paid. It is moving towards being under the umbrella of a local hybrid school which means homeschoolers will no longer be allowed. That will ruin it IMO... especially for football, the school is not big enough to field a decent team without the homeschoolers.
Wow... 2,000 students in the sports program? What a shame if the hybrid school starts turning the homeschoolers away.
The homeschool sports programs where I live were always organized and coached by nonpaid volunteers. But, when the children of those volunteers finished homeschooling, the younger, newer homeschool parents never stepped up to take over. Many of the larger HSing organizations here folded over the years. They were replaced by different groups... but there are no sports programs here, anymore, as far as I know.