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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming in late just to say that even if that’s how it goes, it is hard to feel like she your daughter didn’t get a chance. My kid has had that feeling before and it is hard. [b]Hopefully she will have better experiences in the future. [/b]While my daughter U15 has had better clinics experiences this year, she still has times when she feels stuck and written off. She sees it now as a process and shakes it off. Good luck to her![/quote]
That's a pretty low bar, I am sure most of her volleyball experiences were and will be much better. It is hard to know what happens when you are not allowed to watch. I have no reason to believe that she was lying about being on the 3rd court for the entire tryout. She said that most kids on the 3rd court had little experience (and that's what I saw when I got back to pick her up). It is difficult to make a difference when you play in that environment. We signed her up for a rec league this summer just to get a few touches and we decided we won't do that again: they were not quality touches and the level was rarely decided by the top player on the court. Maybe she did belong on the 3rd court, but she was not offered the chance to play along more skilled players. I would not be here complaining if she told me that she moved back and forth between the two courts. I would tell her that the Moco coaches gave her a chance and she blew it. [/quote]

Ok just trying to be empathetic. [/quote]

Thank you for sharing and trying to be empathetic. I am still playing defense against those who tell me that I can't possibly know what happened because I was not there, the coaches know what they are doing, then dismiss the humiliating experience that my daughter went through for 3 hours. None of the previous discussions with the Moco coaches suggested that my DD has no chance: they told her what to work on, praised her attitude, and encouraged her to aim high. [/quote]

PP. I get it. It sounds like an awful experience and she really did get stuck there. You’d think they would have seen that she wasn’t a rec level player.

On another note, I drop my kid off — like you did - she doesn’t need me sitting there staring at her. I honestly think it’s bizarre when parents stay for their teenagers at that level. Plop down on the court with their chairs. I think it builds confidence for kids to be on their own. I come in at the end of clinics.
If the coaches said to leave, then parents should leave. [/quote]

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