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[quote=Anonymous]This is so easier said than done, and I've been there both in my own high school days and as a parent and coach, but I'm on the side of encouraging her to keep at it.

For one thing, no one in any sport, ever, gets better more quickly than when they're at the phase and age that your daughter is at right now. Novice to intermediate is so much faster and less dependent on luck and innate skill than intermediate to advanced. Like one of the PPs said about their kid, it's actually kind of amazing how you can go from almost nothing to "solid good" in 18 months.

I wouldn't go behind your daughter's back to her coaches because that could backfire real bad, but if she's up for it, either you and she could approach the coaches together or you could buck her up to do it, to ask what she could try working on. "Hey coach, I really want to do volleyball and I like it, but I didn't get to practice much during Covid because we weren't in school. Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve?"

As a part time coach myself, I would bend over backwards for a kid who shows up all the time and actively wants to get better. But on the surface it's not always obvious who that is.[/quote]

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