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[quote=Anonymous]In our experience most of the kids start by 5th. Starting after that is hard, because the kids have played together for at least a year and have the club experience under their belt.

There's some attrition. Some kids move on to different teams, some kids don't love club lacrosse and stop playing. 6th and 7th seemed like big "trying to move to the best teams" years to me. My daughter stopped playing before 10th grade, and was probably one of the last doesn't-really-love-club-lacrosse kids to leave her team. The team had been pretty consistent since 7th grade, and a lot of the kids on it in 9th were the kids who started playing in 4th and 5th grade. There's a strong draw to keep playing once you're there. You spend so much time with these kids, that knowing when you leave you're leaving them can make it really hard to leave. And it's fun! Except when it's taken over your life and everyone's talking about being recruited to play in college and then you realize the thought of playing lacrosse in college makes you want to cry.

Anyway. A lot of the kids stick with it. Some kids leave. There's nothing wrong with doing it while it's fun and leaving when you realize it's not.[/quote]

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