Rounding3rd wrote:PRESSURE- Are you kidding me!!One of the main goals of a coach on the field is to try to prepare his girls to play at the next level no matter what age.
What my point was a few messages back was just that if the kid is playing high school ball in the spring, its my opinion that they should be playing 18u in the fall (or 16u in this case). But other teams do it, its no big deal. Each team has its own goals and thats their business.
It does get to be goofy at the tournaments, sometimes I walk around and go look at the 10u, or 12u or 14u, just to see what the younger groups look like these days. But the 10u are playing up in the 12, the 12u are playing up in the 14u, and the 14u are play in the 18u. We saw that sometime back and said, lets just play 18u and be done with it. Our kids' attitudes were 'if we lose, hey, they were 18u, what do you expect, if we win, we really accomplished something.'
I was a kinda pissed when i found the coach put us in the 14-u and not the 16-u. but after our last showing pehaps we should of tried to get in the 12-u
