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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a 2034 as plays year-round ball on her travel team but, like a lot of girls, also plays for fun on her local neighborhood rec team in the NVYLL.

Her team has her and two other travel girls (one from her team and one from another team) and then a bunch of girls who just play lacrosse for fun in the spring. So I had thought that throughout the season that having three travel players on a team would make them dominant, but no. This isn't even the top division, so I was a little surprised they didn't do better. I don't remember but we were maybe a .500 team.

We had rec (NVYLL) playoffs this week and got crushed. I assumed it was because the other team was loaded with travel players but talking to some of the other team's parents on the sidelines, these girls basically just pick up a stick in spring and play for a couple months and then are back to whatever other sports they play. They had 3-4 players who would have been amongst the top players on my daughter's travel team and a few others who maybe could have made the team.

So yah, I'm not complaining about the other team because they are exactly what rec should be - people who are playing the sport for fun for 2-3 months in a casual setting.[b] I'm more sad because I feel like we've all been sold on the idea that travel lacrosse at a young age is the way to go for development, when this weekend/season made it pretty clear that other athletic girls from other sports can pick it up pretty darn quick and be as good or better than people who have been doing travel training for years.[/b] I'm sure these girls are doing other sports at a travel level but it really goes to show that the local travel clubs are good at selling us on the idea that it's "travel or be left in the dust".

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You're way too invested in this OP. Your "sadness" is of no concern to anyone. You bought a pig in a poke and now you know.

Oh, and "we" didn't get crushed in the tournament. Your daughter's team did.[/quote]

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