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[quote=Anonymous]My DD plays GK for a U13 Travel Team and is the only GK for her team. For reference she is on an NCSL Team and is probably on the bubble between NCSL and ECNL RL, she and the family are all perfectly fine with the placement on an NCSL team.

The Team has been practicing for over a month and has played several games. To date she has not received any direct feedback from her Head Coach about anything in her games or at practice. When I ask her if the coach has given her any feedback, she says that the coach hasn’t ever spoken to her directly (outside of pleasantries and an occasional casual compliment “your punts looked good today”) and only generally speaks to the team as a whole.

There also doesn’t appear to be any feedback loop between the Head Coach and the GK coach for the weekly GK practice either, the GKs all practice together so it could be they are focusing on the games for the other GKs (ECNL RL, etc.).

Her previous coach from her U12 year had regular interaction with her and provided regular coaching and feedback about her play (“try rolling the ball out like this next time”, “I saw you tried X that we talked about and it worked in the game Sunday”, etc.).

While I understand that she is one player on a larger Team we had expected some minimal GK coaching, interaction, or at least feedback about her play during a game from her Head Coach. It could be we were just spoiled with the coach last year but we have seen quite a bit of interaction between coaches and the goalie across other sports and even at the recreation level for soccer.

Are there any other GK parents or Soccer Parents out there that can provide a “reality check” as to whether what we are experiencing is normal for a travel team GK?

Thanks in advance for your feedback![/quote]

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