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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious about how exactly your 11 year old daughter became interested in a DA or ECNL team.  One day she just come up to you and said, Hey Dad/Mom, I'd really like to be on either a DA or ECNL team?  I mean it was either or.  You had no hand in this like....I want my daughter to play DA or ECNL and then convinced her to be interested even though she's at the bottom of the roster and will be treated probably like crap but at least you get to walk around saying your daughter is on a DA or ECNL team?  I'm sure it was the first option though.[/quote]

DP.  I thought I'd mention my own DD's experience when she was that age.  This is a very condensed version.  She didn't come say hey dad, I want to play DA.  She said she wanted to play with better.  She was frustrated with the level of her teammates. She was the star of her team.  Great, right? Not so much when your teammates can't give you a decent pass or can't receive the ball.  She didn't say DA or ECNL.  We talked about high school soccer.  I took her to some games and she said that was what she was trying to get away from.  So DA rather than ECNL.  Our first club didn't have a DA program (or ECNL), so it required changing clubs.

Some girls just want the social experience. I know girls like that, some with talent, but they just want to be with their friends, to stay on the same team because that's where their friends where. 
That is completely valid and a great reason to stay on a team.  Some though, like my DD, she loved that first team.  She is still friends with them. Sometimes, when she has tome, she goes and watches them play club and goes and watches them play high school.  But she loves playing with better.  It's just who she is.   [/quote]

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