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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]19:42 - this isn't true at all clubs.  We're in ASA and it was a LOT easier to get in as a girl than as a boy.  Literally twice as many boys showed up to tryouts last year as girls.  Frankly, the low turnout was the only reason we got in, and I still question the decision sometimes.  But we did it because my daughter wanted more soccer than rec could give her.  The coaching has been good and she's improved a lot, but it's still pretty clear that she's nowhere near the level of the better kids in ASA.  (that said, the "best kids" tend to have earlier birthdays and have 2 more seasons of soccer under their belts because they went to K a year earlier.)[/quote]

True.  I heard every single girl that came out to U9 Arlington tryouts last year made one of the 6 teams.[/quote]

Every club had low U9 tryout #s due to birth year switch. Was an easy year to sneak on, we did too. Probably 70 girls and 120 boys last year in Arlington.  Won't be like that this year from what I am hearing.[/quote]

I think they will still be lower in years past because a lot of people I know do not plan to take their Fall 2009 current first graders to tryout because they think 2nd grade is too young to start travel soccer.  I am not in Arlington, btw.  Shifting birth down for travel--l with multiple tournaments (every holiday weekend), 3 practices per week, travel distance to games they feel is too much for a 2nd grader.  3rd and 4th graders used to represent U9---not 2nd and 3rd graders.[/quote]

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