Do you blame the team’s goalie when they lose?
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Anonymous
| blaming the goalie should be lumped in with blaming the defense. |
Anonymous
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My 4th grader is a goalie on one of the top club teams in the DMV (he’s been on the team/in goal since 2nd grade) and he’s has good games and bad games. Sometimes he’s on fire and stops most shots and some days are bad and he’s a step slow and most shots get in. The kids on the team run to goal immediately after every game win or lose and say good game goalie. The parents all provide positive reinforcement and say to him and to me that the number of shots is the teams fault as much as my kids. Every. Single. Game.
It is a rough position and for this to be happening at the rec level in 5th grade, when any serious players are on club, is insane. From one goalie mom to another, kudos to your kid for getting in the cage. |
Anonymous
We play rec and club here. Same kids. |
Anonymous
Actually, it’s not. My son is a goalie and we have some intense parents on the team, but they are very supportive of him win or lose. |
Anonymous
| Have your kids who play goalie play other positions until at least 7th grade. You will thank me later. |
Anonymous
How come? They really push specializing at this age. He’s on his club team with another goalie but rec he’s the only one. What’s a good position that will work well with it? I may ask if he can play both during club season which is coming up. He does do many other sports, basketball, tennis, flag football and rugby. So I’m not worried about specializing in lacrosse. |
Anonymous
If a goalie plays attack he can gain a better understanding of the position. Plus this helps burn out later on while keeping a love of the game. Anyone pushing specializing is wrong. They can focus on goalie but play another role to get a break. I know multiple current d1 goalies from this area that did this. It is. Long road they can be a goalie only later on. |
Anonymous
+1 Being a goalie is hard and in rec kids are new, just learning and they usually have to bed a kid to be goalie. |
Anonymous
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That is insane. My DD is a midi and I have mad respect for the goalies. I scream my head off to praise them. If they are scored on, I'll shout good effort Larla and clap.
F that B. She knows nothing about the sport. The coach should say, next adult who criticizing my goalie can get in the goal themselves and see how it feels. |
Anonymous
As a goalie parent, I appreciate this so much! |