by homecity » Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:48 am
Okay folks, let me preface this by telling you that I have a daughter on a combined team this spring here in Central Texas called the Dream Team. We have been planning on putting this team together since last spring. You can make all the assumptions you want on this board, but this team was put together for the sole purpose of keeping our 8th grade girls playing while our older '96 girls are playing for their high school teams. It's as simple as that. And I'm pretty certain that's the reason most of these combined teams (Young Ones for example) are playing right now. My daughter has paid her dues by being on the flip side of this scenario, being on the younger team that has played these combined teams last year. It has only helped her by seeing strong competition and making her step up her game. So..to all of the 1st year 14U's and teams playing up, enjoy and respect the competition because this situation could happen to you at some point also.