ChrisDennis13
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First, I will clear the air. My 2010 (10u) daughter is currently on a travel team and we are not looking to leave that team. We are NOT jumping ship. The Coaches are fully aware of the following situation and are hopeful that we can find a new team.
Currently, she is on a team that is 40% 2010 and 60% 2011/12. The 60%, right now, have no plans to move up to 12u next year meaning the 4 or 5 girls that will age out need to find a new team. The organization we are with has offered us, I will call it "charter" for lack of a better word, if we want to keep those girls together and build a new team with their organization. This is very thoughtful and we would love to keep the girls together. The problem is, we have no one to coach the team at this point (If you know someone in the Stark County area interested please respond below) and we would have to find 5 or 6 2010 girls to join the team and be a first year 12u team.
In the event that this does not happen, we will need to find an existing team for our DD to tryout for and hopefully join.
My questions to the older more seasoned parents is: When should we start looking and how should we go about engaging those teams? Is it bad form to do it while at a tournament your current team is in? Do you post your DD availability on forums such as this? Do you give stats, positions, locations? How do you determine is a team is truly an A, B, or C team? Currently her team is a(n) okay/decent B team depending on the day and player's moods. (We lose to very good teams like Finesse Bragg (0-8) and this past weekend to the Phantoms (0-2), Have good tight games with Mad Dogs and Starz, but then smoke other teams in the same class by run rules.) How do you know if your kid is good enough to even tryout for the better teams?
Any advice would be great. We would like to find a full 2010 birth year team, so we can stop jumping around and move up with the team moving forward.
Currently, she is on a team that is 40% 2010 and 60% 2011/12. The 60%, right now, have no plans to move up to 12u next year meaning the 4 or 5 girls that will age out need to find a new team. The organization we are with has offered us, I will call it "charter" for lack of a better word, if we want to keep those girls together and build a new team with their organization. This is very thoughtful and we would love to keep the girls together. The problem is, we have no one to coach the team at this point (If you know someone in the Stark County area interested please respond below) and we would have to find 5 or 6 2010 girls to join the team and be a first year 12u team.
In the event that this does not happen, we will need to find an existing team for our DD to tryout for and hopefully join.
My questions to the older more seasoned parents is: When should we start looking and how should we go about engaging those teams? Is it bad form to do it while at a tournament your current team is in? Do you post your DD availability on forums such as this? Do you give stats, positions, locations? How do you determine is a team is truly an A, B, or C team? Currently her team is a(n) okay/decent B team depending on the day and player's moods. (We lose to very good teams like Finesse Bragg (0-8) and this past weekend to the Phantoms (0-2), Have good tight games with Mad Dogs and Starz, but then smoke other teams in the same class by run rules.) How do you know if your kid is good enough to even tryout for the better teams?
Any advice would be great. We would like to find a full 2010 birth year team, so we can stop jumping around and move up with the team moving forward.