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[quote=Anonymous]13:45 - the letters are supposed to mean stuff, but it's not a perfect system.  Last year my daughter played on the F team, and I had some opportunities to watch all 6 teams at her age level.  The A and B teams were REALLY GOOD, with the A team being just slightly better than the B.  The C and D team were pretty comparable to each other but not at the level of the A/B, and the F team ended up beating the E team.  But the difference between the A team and our team was pretty dramatic given that all the girls are roughly the same age.  We had a couple of A players in one tournament and a couple of B players in another one, and they really raised the level of play.

It's hard to tell in a few tryout sessions who is A v. B or even B v. C, etc.  So sometimes there are shake-ups once the season starts. Kids move up or down or out between years - our F team lost 3 girls to C, 2 girls to D and 2 girls to E.  A and B stayed pretty constant.

The thing that can be hard about playing for an E or F team is that many clubs don't have 5 or 6 teams - they have 3.  So your F team is playing their C team and they might just be better than you, so you get crushed in every game.  It can be a tough adjustment for a kid who is used to winning all their Rec games, to all of a sudden being low man on the totem pole and losing all your games 7-1 or 6-0.

As for the "just about any kid can make a travel team", that really depends on the gender and the year.  In our year and the next one, there weren't really many girls trying out, so most girls who came out made a team.  On the boys' side, there were at least twice as many boys as there were travel team slots, so many, many kids did not make travel. And some did not make developmental either.[/quote]

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