Everyone is looking at the player/parents for reasons for jumping ship. What a bout an organization that insists that you commit in early July for the following season?
The premise is they would take the top four off of our current team (1st year 14U, combine them with 5 or 6 that could still play 14U next season from the second year, very successful, team and pick up one or two at tryouts. The stipulation was that the only way to assure this team can combine is if everyone commits now and those who would not commit could not be guaranteed a spot. This seemed like a great idea and everyone supposedly was on board and next season was set so there was no need for tryouts for any of the girls.
All four of our girls committed to this hand-picked team and in the fall when the team finally got together it wasn't anything close to what was promised. In reality instead of a strong second year team, our girls were put onto the 12U team moving into their first year of 14U and no, there were none of the second year girls on the team as promised.
Now, we committed to this team based on the promises made by the organization. We held up our end of the agreement, the organization did not. I realize that when you go to tryouts you don't know who is going to be on your team, and that team may be strong or may not. That being said, had we been given the scenario of our girls playing on the 12U team, we would have gone to tryouts and considered looking for another team.
Needless to say we bailed pretty quickly and gave our reason for leaving as the organizaion misleading us into an early committment. I feel we did the right thing and would do it over again in a heartbeat.