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[quote=Anonymous]I have experience with travel, ADP and rec.

My daughter and I found the ADP tryouts to be more chill and less stressful overall than Travel.  They do not take everyone, generally, but they sometimes will create more teams if they have a lot of decent talent show up.  (our year has 8 teams; I think the other years have 6.)

Travel involved 3 practices a week; rec generally involves one. ADP has two - a pool practice with the pro coaches and a team practice with parent coaches.  The parents seem a bit nicer and more relaxed than travel parents, and there's a higher commitment level than rec.  You don't have to do tournaments on holiday weekends, and you don't have to travel outside of Arlington, which is awesome.  It's also 1/4 the cost, which was a nice bonus for us.

Like your daughter, my daughter has to "play up" a year in ADP because her birth year is earlier than most of her classmates.  That was a real pain for us in Travel, but hasn't been as bad in ADP.  (It can be harder to find carpools and bond with teammates when you're in a different grade from most of them.)

Last, we do both ADP and rec because my daughter loves her rec team and the coach.  At one point, she had 4 practices a week and 2 games, which was a lot.  This season it's 3 practices and 2 games, which isn't bad.  It can be hard to coordinate practices, though - you really do need to be able to make both ADP practices and ideally rec practice too, otherwise it can be hard to know what plays have been covered in practice if you're just showing up for games.[/quote]

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