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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid accepted an offer for a team and a month later we got word that the team is changing- meaning its no longer our kid's age group, but their age group and the one above them is combining to play at the higher age level (e.g. '10's and '11's combining). Our child is NOT thrilled and we're unsure if kid would have accepted the offer knowing this ahead of time. It seems as if there were not enough kids at both ages to field whole team with enough subs, but now its a mega team. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? [/quote]

Sort of. When DS was u14 he was given an offer for a team. I noticed the offer letter had a younger birth year. I wrote back and mentioned that it was the wrong age group. I was reassured it was a typo. I shouldn’t have listened.  When the season started we discovered they had combined the u13/u14 team and the kids would play u14. So DS was in his age group but half the team was a year younger. It wasn’t a good experience for DS on many fronts. First, socially he was an 8th grader playing with mostly 7th graders (younger half of his birth year plus the next birth year) and even a handful of 6th graders. He was just in a different place. Second, the team was in no way competitive with 50% of the kids playing up. He has been on teams where an extremely talented kid plays up but this wasn’t a case of talent but filling the roster. It was a very frustrating year.  I actually think it would have been better for him to be the younger playing up since then he might have felt more challenged. [/quote]

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