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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Little kids have poor spacial and body awareness.  I'd relax and just let it be.  If it bothers your daughter, she should have them go first.[/quote]

This is true - my daughter was having the opposite issue on occasion in 8u - a slower girl would insist on going in front of her and force her to either pass her or she'd sometimes just stop in the middle to let this girl create a gap again...but every time they would stop and re-start, this girl would insist on going first.  The additional dynamic here was that my daughter, although new and a year younger, was faster and think that was at play; the girl was otherwise friendly and they got along and I think it was more annoying to me than it was to my daughter, to be honest.[/quote]
This is something that is super common especially amongst the 10&U set. At that age the coaches should have some kind of awareness of what is going on in the lanes during sets. Our coaches order the kids in the lanes at that age, and they call out the kids who cheat (leave before the interval so that they can appear faster than the kid in front of them), and make sure there isn’t someone taking a front position if they can’t maintain it. [/quote]

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