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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the push-back you're getting is because there *are* options.  You just don't like the options. [b] I'm not sure what's wrong with rec teams being made up of kids from different schools [/b](travel teams are too.)  And frankly, if you wanted to play on a travel team - at least for soccer - there are so many around that you can almost certainly find one if your kid is even an average player.

It sounds like you want a team that plays multiple times a week and stays together from season to season, but doesn't cost a lot and doesn't require a commitment.  That's a unicorn anywhere.[/quote]

Has your kid played on one of these teams? Because my DD has. She could be on a travel team (prob not an A team). But, for a variety of reasons, that does not work for us. So her "rec" teams are always cobbled together affairs, which mostly kids trying out the sport for the first time. And that's totally fine. That's rec. But, the teams end losing all the tournaments and stuff and it's not fun. She's not the top of the sport, and she's not the bottom. She's a solid player and it's not fun.

So, while you're right that there "*are* options", those options are not always good ones. That is what OP is talking about. And I agree. There is no in between. I guess that's life. But, as one of the other posters said, it didn't used to be this way. And in this case, the "old way" seems to be something I prefer.[/quote]

This is OP.  Thanks, PP.  That’s exactly where we are for this particular sport.  I’m not criticizing rec teams - they are great for some sports and some kids (including mine for some sports).  But when you have a kid who has strong skills and a good sense of the game, rec really is not always the right fit unless it’s with a group of good friends who have played together for a while as some posters have mentioned.  Select is really the perfect in-between for kids like mine, but those teams are few and far between as kids get older, perhaps with the exception of soccer which seems to have more options.[/quote]

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