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[quote=Anonymous]There is no division that is on par w top travel teams. The top division might have a team that could compete in low level travel but I would think that is rare. The bottom division might have some teams that are more rec level but the kids are more committed. There can be players on any team who are standouts and could play travel but choose not to either for financial reasons or due to scheduling conflicts or simply because of burn out. Or maybe even do play travel and are double carded. This is something some travel players on my son’s team do for extra practice. But looking at an entire team, SAM select is not travel level.

My older son played Div1 Classic and the team was always in the top of the standings in that division.  They had a paid coach and practiced year round. The strongest players on that team went on to low level travel teams in late middle school when the team decided to split. They did play against travel teams in some tournaments but they didn’t win any of those games.

My younger child was playing for a large travel clubs B team at the time and no doubt even his younger B team would have been able to beat the Div 1 team. At u10 his team did get an influx of select/classic players who caught up pretty quickly. But by middle school the gap is wide.

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