How many goalies on team?
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Anonymous
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How many goalies are on your club team? what age division? How many kids on total roster?
If you only have one, why? |
Anonymous
| 5 |
Anonymous
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2 goalies is the perfect number. 3 if 1 can also play field.
Total players on a team? 21 to 23 works. Why 1 goalie? They only had 1 tryout/ make the team. |
Anonymous
| My DD's team only has 1 goalie. There were other goalies at tryouts but they were not good enough to on A team. |
Anonymous
| Girls - 2. No more, no less. Each girl plays half each game. And if injury you're still good. |
Anonymous
This feels like an error in judgement |
Anonymous
My daughter is in the same boat. She likes being the only goalie, but puts a lot of stress on not getting hurt, sick, etc. Much happier in years where there have been two. |
Anonymous
| Interesting point about happiness of goalies! |
Anonymous
| Our goalie is happy that she is the only one and doesn't have to share reps or playing time. |
Anonymous
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I just meant, if a program has multiple goalies they are wasting an opportunity bringing up a backup to let them train and improve with the A team.
Also, especially at higher levels, its all fun until your goalie gets hurt or sick or has a test or whatever. Too much pressure to put on a kid, and again is poor planning from a program perspective |
Anonymous
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On the boys side, the answer is usually 2 goalies, but sometimes one. Never more than 2.
The reason for just one is if the team has an exceptionally good goalie, they are better off having him play full time than sharing 50/50. There are a few reasons: (1) The goalie coming in cold for the second half is at a disadvantage. (2) if you have one great goalie and one that is merely good, you still have to play them 50/50 (or the good one will leave), which leaves the team weaker in one half. (3) the great one will leave too, if another team is willing to give him 100% time, so you may need to match that to keep him happy (and on the team). The one goalie plan only works if the kid and the parents are super healthy and dependable. You can't have a family that says "we're good for the first two tournaments but will miss the third one for our beach trip." Plus, usually 1-2 field players will take a few reps in goal so they can jump in if the goalie is injured during a game, and for a longer term injury, they would go out and recruit a second goalie to fill in. |
Anonymous
What about a younger team? 33/34 |
Anonymous
So what happens if the other goalie leaves? Stud goalie could get hurt, leave for another, better team (even if it means splitting time), or could go to Disney World the same weekend as a tournament. Putting all the eggs in one basket isn’t a great strategy in anything. Plus, I’ve seen the not-so-good 5th grade goalie become a big time D1 recruit in both boys and girls. And I’ve also seen plenty of awesome youngsters who were the best players on their travel team, quit the sport altogether in high school. You just never know, so you should always have a contingency plan in your back pocket. Developing the second kid will benefit a club in the long run. Stud kid isn’t going anywhere to play the whole game if they’re already in the best team. People don’t go to weaker teams to play more (even though they probably should). |
Anonymous
| Our girls middle school team has 2. They usually have equal playing time but one is much better than the other so if it’s a tight game she stays in. |
Anonymous
| If lone A team goalie gets injured, borrow one of the B team goalies. B team is where we keep multiple goalies. |