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[quote=Anonymous]Your experience in Platform will vary depending on what team you end up in. We've been lucky so far, but we know families who were not. A common complaint is that lower level teams (especially white) don't have good coaches. This is definitely true, but we hear the same complaints about lower level teams in other clubs. Parents are told that players (not parents) must raise any issues with the coaches. The claim is that players need to learn how to speak for themselves. I am sure that's an easy way to dismiss complaints (most of which are court time) because players rarely can stand up for themselves after the coaches provide reasoning (which may or may not be sound). Parents are told that they can escalate issues that are not solved satisfactorily, but there is no clear roadmap for that. They probably will say that the coach explained their reasoning to the player and they trust the coach to make decisions on court time.

The court time issue is contentious, especially for the deep rosters at Platform. We are not buying into the reasoning for those deep rosters (some players don't show up at tournaments because of sickness or injuries). With very few exceptions, most of our players were showing up consistently at tournaments. The major problem we noticed was related to how the teams were put together. To be competitive, some of the players should have been placed on lower level teams, where they would have played more. There was a recent thread about benching players that perfectly describes what happens in Platform: players are assigned on pretty heterogeneous teams. The best players will get court time, the weaker players will get much less court time. It's not the player's fault, I see it as the fault of the coaches who put together these teams. [/quote]

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