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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk to the coach. The lack of support from teammates is a sign of a failure of leadership under the coach (of course you don’t say that). Any chance your daughter can switch to another travel team that isn’t so toxic?[/quote]
My advice would be to find a different team.

My son was a skilled but not confident basketball player.  On his first travel team, he finally got up the nerve to shoot in like the 4th game of the season and hit an open three. 
 Instead of being pleased, all his teammates were mad that he'd taken a shot.  He switched mid season to a much better travel team, and he immediately started averaging like 12 points a game -- largely because the coach and his teammates were super positive.  Every team he played on after that (through middle and high school including VERY competitive AAU teams) was similarly positive --- everybody cheered when anybody scored.  Because the first team was his first experience with travel, we didn't realize how toxic it was, or how bad the team actually was.

Any athlete who thinks "stealing my goals" is a thing has been very badly coached.[/quote]

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