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[quote=Anonymous]At 11, your son should talk to the coaches. You can help prep him, but he should be the one doing the talking.

When my DD was moved down a team she talked to her coaches about what skills she needs to work on. She said she wanted to make it back on to the better team, she recognized she didn't do as much work outside of practices as she should have and that what she was working on wasn't necessarily what she should have been. The coaches were great, told her what she should be working on. She spoke with the coaches of her new team as well, and asked them what they were looking for. She made a commitment to putting in more out of practice time, including going to her old team's games when she could and asking old teammates to practice with her.

It was not easy. For a kid, that's a lot of dealing with things in a mature, productive way. She was embarrassed and her first instinct was to hide from everyone but I just supported her and let her know she didn't have to play the sport, and if she did play the sport it didn't matter to me what level she played at. If it mattered to her, there were steps she could take to be the sort of player coaches at the level she wanted to play were looking for.

After all this, my DD did not get moved back up a team. A couple months into her plan to do more practice outside of practice she realized she just didn't love doing it that much, and she made peace with being on the lower level team. I think if she had kept working hard outside of practice, she could have made it. But her inclination to just practice at practice sort of tells you where she belongs. We're lucky to have options for kids who want more than rec, but aren't living and breathing the sport like some kids on the top teams.[/quote]

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